Art- Abstract Art 

For 2 weeks we will be looking at abstract art, specifically Wassily Kandinsky. We will focus on shapes, lines and brush strokes as well as looking at the colour wheel with its primary and secondary colours. The first week will be looking at Kandinsky's work, picking them about and finishing them off. We will also be making colour wheels and experimenting with different brushes. In the second week we will investigate colours further and create our very own abstract piece of art. 

Mixing colours with food colouring, pipettes and cotton pads to see how different colours can mix. 

PSHE- Culture and Diversity

For one week we will look at different cultures and their celebrations, such as Diwali, Lunar new year, Christmas and Easter. We will also look at diversity and how people may look different, but inside they are the same as everyone else. 

 

Creating music and performances with the message of inclusion. 

Geography- Weather 

We will spend 1 week learning about the weather. This will include looking at how it can change based on where you are and all about the equator. We hope to see lots of different weather during the week and have lots of conversations about the weather we experience. 

 

The children drawing and making season pictures and season wheels. 

 

Using our maps and tissue paper to learn about the equator. 

 

Oak trees getting to learn about the weather in the snow. 

PSHE- Families and the people that care for me. 

We will be learning about families and the people that care about us for the next week. There will be a lot of conversations about different families and how they can look. We will have the opportunity to draw our own family portraits and write stories about our own families and see how they are different to other people. 

We had a visit from social worker and foster carer who talked about different families and how they might look. 

DT- Wheels and Axels 

We will be spending 2 weeks designing, creating and evaluating our own projects. These have a focus on the wheels and axels. Oak trees will spend the first week researching different toy cars and then spend the following week making their own and evaluating their product. 

Using our indoor and outdoor construction areas to explore different wheels and axles before creating their own. 

 

Some of our finished toy car projects. 

Science - Materials. 

We will be learning about different materials and their different uses for 2 weeks. The first week will be looking at exploring different materials, followed by a week of looking at individual materials and their uses. We will finish with an experiment testing different materials and how waterproof they are. 

 Conducting an experiment to find out which materials are waterproof. 

Oaks have been gathering and testing different natural and man-made materials. 

Computing – E-Safety

We will be spending one week learning about e-safety and how to be stay safe online. This includes making sure we know what information needs to be kept private and what to do if somethign online make you uncomfortable. 

 

History – Communication

We will spend the next 2 weeks learning about communication and how it has evolved over time. The first week will be spent looking at older forms of communication like the messengers, the telegraph and morse code. Followed by a week of learning about more modern forms of communication like Telephones, mobile phones and the internet and how new forms of communication changed daily life. 

Communication - Knowledge Organiser

The children taking orders inside, for their café in the mud kitchen. 

 

 

They have been writing postcards and getting our postpeople to deliver them. 

 

RE- Jewish People

We will be learning about Jewish people for the next 2 weeks. in the first week we will focus on looking at who Jewish people are and what they believe.  The second week will look at their sacred texts and what it means to be part of a faith community.  We will be looking at Jewish artifacts and symbols that are important within the faith.

Jewish People - Knowledge organiser 

Oak trees looking at Jewish artifacts and building synyogues out of blocks. 

 

Children making food typically found in a shabbat dinner. 

Science- Animals including humans 

We will be learning about animals including humans for the next 2 weeks. The first week we will be learning to classify different animals into the 5 categories (Fish, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians and Mammals). Then in the second week we will be learning about the different needs of animals and what humans need to keep healthy. In the second week we will be furthering our knowledge of animals by going on a trip to Wildwood animal park.

Animals including humans - knowledge organiser

Children fishing, making shelter for animals and investigating the properties of different animals. 

Music – Your imagination. 

In the next week we will be learning all about music and learning the song 'Your Imagination'. We will be learning to play it on the glockenspiels and using our environment to make our own music and writing our own songs. 

The children have been finding different ways to play our song (Ipads and in the music area) as well as writing songs and finding keywords in a crossword. 

In the video, the children are playing the song 'Your Imagination'.

Geography – Where we live. 

In the next 2 weeks we will be learning about where we live. During the first week we will be looking at human and physical features. We will build our own human features and spot physical features in our environment. For the second week we will begin to learn to find where we live on a map. This will include looking at lots of different maps and globes and writing leaflets to show why the different countries are unique. 

Where we live- Knowledge organiser

Children building their own human features (houses) and measuring the physical features in our garden. 

Writing leaflets, looking at globes and mountains (human features) in the sandpit.