Animals Including Humans

Animals Including Humans

1. Maths

   • Money - Count in steps of 2s, 5s and 10s. Counting money - coins and notes, selecting and comparing money, finding totals, making change and solving problems involving money
   • Multiplication - identifying objects in equal groups, express multiplication using repeated addition, understanding arrays as an efficient representation, multiplication is commutative, 2x, 5x and 10x tables, solve simple multiplication problems

2. English

   • Poetry- Recipe to Make a Wolf: Learn the poem, plan and write their own version of the poem
   • Writing to Entertain: Tadpole's Promise
     • Children will be reading the story with a focus on the character's feelings, looking at vocabulary, creating a story map, book talk and retelling of their favourite part of the story
   • Grammar: Capital letters, full stops,, question marks, exclamation marks, welll-chosen adjectives and verbs, conjunctions to extend my sentences
   • Writing to Entertain - The Journey Home: The children will write their own version of the story using conjunctions, adjectives, a range of punctuation and different sentence starters.

3. PSHCE - Healthy Me

   • Being Healthy
     • Being relaxed
       • Medicine Safety
       • Healthy Eating
         • Understanding why being healthy is important

4. Art

   • Mark making
   • Junk modelling animal sculptures
   • Create a zentangle with links to PSHCE

5. PE

   • Ball skills
   • Cosmic Yoga

6. Phonics/Spellings

   • Suffixes - er, est, ing
     • Common Exception Words

7. Science - Animals Including Humans

   • Working Scientifically - observe closely using simple equipment
     • Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways
   • Notice that animals, including humans have offspring which grow into adults
   • To find out and describe the basic needs of animals
   • Do all living things have to grow? Why?
   • Understand that most animals babies need to be fed and cared for by their parents
   • Compare and contrast baby animals and their parents