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. 

 

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.