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

GRAMMAR

• review the importance of word order and the work that words do in sentences, in particular:

• nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and prepositions
• Prefixes and Suffixes
• Plural Endings – rules for changing the singular to the plural
• connectives used in sentences –classifying for different kinds of text – for example, by position (besides, nearby); sequence (firstly, next)
• compound sentences – know and understand that a compound sentence is made up of 2 main clauses

WRITING (Collins Scheme) –

• We will be studying a unit based autobiographies and biographies including:
  • features of both genre
  • comparison
  • composing questions
  • Children will be required to complete an autobiography as part of their Literacy homework – (a scrapbook will be required)

Planning and redrafting of a final writing piece will also be carried out by the pupils.

World Around Us (Topic Work) -

Our topic this half term is ‘ Mighty Me‘ – we will be looking at ourselves, where we come from, our bodies (skeleton and internal organs) and our personal timelines. This topic is linked to our literacy unit on Autobiographies.

Children will:

• Label diagrams showing the internal organs
• Research to find out what job each organ does in the body
• Study the circulatory and digestive system
• Find out about the heart and what does it do
• Look at keeping healthy and what this means
• Sort Foods into different groups
• Look at how exercise affects out bodies
• Using ICT to create a PowerPoint about themselves
• Look at Northern Ireland – know the counties, find Dungannon on a Map, be able to identify the UK on a world map
• Look at old photographs of Dungannon and compare with today and identify key buildings