Click on image above to open the curriculum map to see what we are learning about during Spring 1
This half term our Cornerstones topic is Emperors and empires.
This is a history topic which looks that teaches children about the history and structure of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire, including a detailed exploration of the Romanisation of Britain. We will learn about everyday life in Roman Britain, the founding of ancient Rome, how Rome was ruled, and the expansion of the Roman empire.
English - This half term we will be covering narrative. We will be designing our own story settings, based on our class text and describing these. We will look carefully at the features of a good story setting, for example, the use of powerful adjectives in our sentences, expanded noun phrases, the use of adverbs to describe how things move etc.
We would like our children to continue to access edshed at home to practise their weekly spellings. The children will be tested on these every Friday.
Reading - Our class book is called ' Stig of the Dump' by Clive King. The children will all have access to their own copy of the class book in school. It's also really important that the children read regularly at home and we will try our best to change books on a fortnightly basis. We are encouraging our children to read at least 3 times a week and have this recorded in their book so that they can earn a raffle ticket which will give them a chance to win a new book!
Maths - We are going to cover multiplication and division, money and statistics this half term. It is also really important that the children practise their times tables everyday and get more confident at recalling them. We will be testing the children on their times tables each week in readiness for the year 4 multiplication test.
Science - This half term in Science we will be looking at our Changing state. We will be looking at solids, liquids and gases. We will be exploring the water cycle and its relevance to our survival and also investigating whether white, milk or dark chocolate melts the quickest and if so why?
