This half term the children will be learning about the Stone age (history) all the way through to the Iron age. They will learn about British Stone age settlements such as Skara Brae, how Paleolithic humans lived and how the developed into Mesolithic people.

 

Writing - We will be starting off with a Roald Dahl Week focussing on the book 'The Giraffe and the Pelly and me' where we will be creating a persuasive advert to promote the ladderless window cleaning company. After that writing will focus on the books; 

Stone girl Bone girl, producing a diary. completing a short Independent write – Describing a fossil. The Stone age boy and  creating  a setting description including another short independent write including dialogue dialogue.

 

Reading comprehensions will be focussed around UG – The boy genius and our class novel will be 'The Odds'

For poetry we will be looking at Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes – Jack and the beanstalk

Maths - We will cover:

Week 1 and 2  – Place value, addition and subtraction

Week 3 – Length and perimeter

Week 4 – Statistics

Week 5 – Addition and Subtraction

Week 6 – Review week

 

Science

Our science topic is light.

 

For more details on other subjects please have a look at the mid-term plan attached.