Language & Literacy – In this half term we will be studying:

Reading

• Carry out Running Records and a spelling test in order to establish groupings.
• Engage in guided and shared reading sessions using both fiction & non-fiction texts
• Develop our literal reading comprehension skills.

Sentence Construction & Punctuation:

• Revise the need to demarcate the end of a sentence with a full stop and the start of a new one with a capital/ uppercase letter
• Investigate the use of question marks and exclamation marks in reading and writing.

Grammatical Awareness:

• Use the term “verb” correctly
• Use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking & writing: see/saw, go/went etc.

Phonics & Spelling [building on & extending P3 work]:

• Know that the same phoneme (sound) can be represented in more than one way e.g. go, grow, float, note.

Handwriting:

Learn the new formation of the letters “f” and “k”

• Begin to learn how to join our letters using the Nelson script
• Revise the correct formation of all lower and uppercase letters.

Writing:

• Learn to identify the features of a recount.
• Plan, write & begin to edit our own recounts.

World Around Us (Topic Work) -

Our topic this half term is ‘Happy Healthy Bodies’. The children will not only be developing knowledge and skills in various area of the curriculum but will also be learning how to keep healthy. Some of the activities we will be involved in include:

• Feely bag senses tasks
• Labelling body parts
• Learning action songs involving body parts (exercise)
• Keeping a food diary at home
• Finding out about healthy food
• Designing a healthy lunchbox
• Making fresh fruit salad
• Fruit and vegetable art work