Forest School and PE

Our forest school session will be taught every Thursday afternoon and PE will be taught every Wednesday and Friday afternoon. 

Summer 2

Topic - Fur, Feathers and Scales

Soft fur, sharp claws and twitching whiskers. What’s your favourite animal? One that meows? One that barks? Or maybe one that scurries or slithers? From pets at home to animals in the zoo, let’s find out what animals like to eat and where they like to sleep. Do you know how to look after a rabbit? A cat? Or even a snake? Find out how the elephant got his trunk and how the rhinoceros got his leathery skin. Perhaps you know how the dog got his waggy tail? Can you make a food chain to show who eats who? Who is a herbivore and who is a carnivore? When a gaggle of mysterious pets arrive at the local pet shop, it’s up to you to take care of them. Feed them, clean them and discover their daily needs. After all that work, curl up and take a cat nap.

Through our topic work this term, we will be learning …….

English: We will explore personal pronouns, using a capital for names and learn about adding the suffix ‘es’. We will do this through the book ‘Koala Lou’.

Maths: Multiplication & Division, Fractions and Measurement.

Computing: technology outside of school

Art: To use a range of drawing equipment, such as hard and soft pencils, to make line drawings of familiar animals; Use hard and soft pencils to draw lines, exploring animal skin patterns; use a range of collage materials to make textures and patterns based on their drawings and the natural markings of a range of animal skins and furs.

Design and Technology: To understand where food comes from – sort foods into groups according to whether they are from an animal or plant source; create an imaginary version of a familiar pet. Plan and make a model of their new design, changing aspects such as its colour or markings; design and make an enclosure for a particular zoo animal.

Geography: To name and locate the world's seven continents and five oceans on a world map; to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features; devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key.

Science: Talk about the similarities and differences between animals of the same species, comparing their sizes, colouring, patterns and features; Investigate variation amongst classmates. Explore the basic parts of the human body and how they vary from person to person. Investigate camouflage by taking part in a ‘butterfly hunt,

Ways to help at home 

• Children must read their school reading book at least 4 times a week to a grown up at home. Books will only be changed when they have read their school book 3 or more times. Ensure you record this in their reading record. Only one read per day will be counted.  
• We recommend www.whiteroseeducation.com/1-minute-maths for some fun one minute maths work. 
• Our topic is all about animals. Here is a great webpage to learn more about animal classification at home: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv
• Please ask your child to find 3 interesting facts about an animal of their choice.
• Using toys can your child classify animals? Put them in baskets of the same type.
• In maths, we will be learning about fractions. There are some wonderful games on this website that you might like to have a go at:  https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/fractions.html
• Visit a zoo or animal park and make a list of all of the human features (such as benches, pathways or carparks) you can see and how many physical features (such as trees, lakes, bushes etc) that you can see.
• Visit zoo or animal park and make a list of any animals you see there.
• Do a painting of an animal of your choice. Can you colour mix the correct colours?
• In school, we will be continuing to learn about doubles and halves. For example double 3 is 6, and half of 6 is 3. There is a fab game on https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-thebutton  that you could go on to try doubling and halving at home. Just set it to doubles to 10.
• In phonics, we will be continuing to work on phase 5c phonics. There are lots of great ways to learn these phonemes (sounds) including: https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/buried-treasure

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/odd-and-bob?phase=5 

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/forestPhonics/index.html

These will help support your child in preparation for the phonics screening check.

Last year the children were really lucky to have some animal visitors come into school for this animal topic. If you have any friendly, unusual or willing pets that you would be able to bring into school, we would love to have them in as it really helps to bring our topic to life. Please email your child’s teacher

if you would like to bring a pet into school.