Term 5
Term 5- Let's go on a Safari!
This term our work will be based all around Africa and animals! Our class texts will be 'The Leopard's Drum' by Jessica Souhami, 'Handa's Surprise' by Eileen Browne and 'Anna Hibiscus' Song' by Atinuke & Lauren Tobia.
We will research where the continent of Africa is in the world, focusing on Ghana and Kenya. We will learn about the differences between Africa and the UK, focusing on the climate, how people live, what they wear and eat, and animal habitats. We will be making music and dancing, using African drums. We will be exploring and tasting the fruits from the story of Handa's surprise and making our own fruit kebabs. This term in art, we will be getting creative and making traditional African prints and masks and we will be creating our own African small world scene which we will use for our story telling and small world, imaginative play. We are also looking forward to developing our nature garden this term and will be busy planting flowers and veggies and creating bird feeders.
In English, we will be doing some work based around poetry, using adjectives, following and writing instructions, and creating story maps, then writing our own simple stories. In maths, we will recap our learning from last term about 3D shapes and number bonds to 10. We will also be working on building numbers beyond 10, counting patterns beyond 10, addition, subtraction, matching, rotating and manipulating shapes. In RE, our units of work are called 'Good News' and 'Friends' and will be based around Pentecost and Reconciliation.
Take a look at our medium term plan to find out more about our learning this term.
We made African masks! Some of the children took great care in creating patterns on their masks. They really did look beautiful!
We used African drums to imitate different animals from the Savannah. This was great fun! The children picked up the rhythms very quickly!
To tie in with our learning on Handa's Surprise, we made fruit kebabs using lots of delicious fruits! Some of us even created a repeating pattern with our fruits! Well done Castle Class!
Look at our wonderful English learning! We created story maps based on Handa's Surprise, then wrote our very first simple stories, with a sentence for the beginning, a problem in the middle and then a sentence for the ending. We were very excited to share our learning with Mr Taylor! He was very impressed!
Take a look at our amazing phonics this term! We have been learning to write words with 4 or 5 sounds! It's getting tricky now!
