Spring Term 2018

Our topic in Spring Term 1 was 

Planes, trains and automobiles

We were...

• working out the right order for events in a story, and how to start each sentence

   

 

 

• practising and using colour words in Welsh and naming colours we like or dislike

   

 

    

• learning about different types of transport
• thinking about which types of transport we use for different journeys
• learning the names of different parts of a car
• giving Mr Evans's car an MOT
• making a model car with moving parts and giving them a test drive

  

 

     

 

     

 

    

• learning what makes a fair and an unfair scientific test using vehicles

  

• playing in our travel agents role play area
• making tracks for toy vehicles and marbles by using guttering and pipes
• working as a team to make a marble run

​​​​​​​    

• learning the names of vehicles in Welsh
• brainstorming the names of as many different countries as we can
• using maps and atlases to learn about the wider world
• making a model town for our train set
• using vehicle sounds in our writing
• writing pen-pal letters to our friends in Murcia, Spain
• using stopwatches to measure time
• doing African drumming on the djembe with Mr Rees from Upbeat Music

​​​​​​​   

 

  

and LOTS of other things..!

 

 

Our topic in Spring Term 2 is

Now and then

We will be

 

• sorting items into things used long ago and things we use today

​​​​​​​   

• preparing for our school Eisteddfod
• writing letters with quills and scrolls in our role play castle
• learning the names of baby animals
• writing about our earliest memories and our dreams for the future
• learning about homes one hundred years ago, especially wash day and bath time
• thinking about how we change as we get older
• ​​​​​​​studying some artists from the early 1900s

​​​​​​​   

• designing building block castles
• watching children's TV programmes from the past and voting on our favourites 
• getting ready for Easter