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Term 2

Dinosaurs

Big Question: Which dinosaur is the best?

English

Our core text this term is, 'Dinosaurs and all that rubbish' written by Michael Foreman. It is the tale of one man's quest to visit a star that led to the awakening of the dinosaurs!

Dinosaurs And All That Rubbish by Michael Foreman

Here is a link to the story

We will be learning a text map linked to this story and exploring the five main parts of the story. The children will have opportunities to write labels and captions linked to the text by applying the phonics they are being taught in class.

Maths

This term your children will be exploring and comparing capacity, length and weight. We will also be exploring the properties and vocabulary of 3D shape.

Can you identify and describe each of these glasses using the vocabulary, full, half full, empty?

Which of these animals would you describe as light? Which animal would you describe as heavy? Which animal is the heaviest? Which animal do you think is the lightest?

How would you describe the length of these pencils? Can you apply the vocabulary, long, longer, longest, short, shorter, shortest?

Topic

During our topic lessons we will be applying our colour mixing skills learnt during term 1 to paint dinosaurs, we will also be using paint to explore print.

We will investigate how to join different materials using glue and tape to build 3D dinosaurs and experiment with different media to create dinosaur images.

The children will also be learning about the differences and similarities between carnivore and herbivore dinosaurs. We will examine the differences in their teeth and how we can care for our own teeth.

The children will also have the opportunity to become archeologists by excavating dinosaurs from blocks of ice!

Term 1

Kindness

This term is a very important term for your child. They will be having lots of new experiences and meeting lots of new friends.

The focus of our learning this term will be on, 'kindness'.

Your child will have opportunities to build friendships, express their likes and dislikes and explore how to express their emotions.

English

Our core text this term is, 'The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by the author, Charlie Mackesy.

Maths

During our maths lessons your child will be exploring numbers 1-6. Your child will have opportunities to recognise numerals 1-6, touch count up to 6 objects and collect up to 6 objects from a larger group.

You can support your child at home by encouraging counting of everyday objects and singing songs involving number!

Marvellous Me

Download the Marvellous Me app to get regular updates about your child and important messages from the school office.

Whenever I send you a message, you will receive a notification and be able to share in your child's success as it happens!