Mouse on the River
Welcome back everyone!
We hope that you have had a wonderful week at home with your families.
This half term our learning will take place around the topic of animals. We will be exploring a range of texts based on animals and use these to inspire our narrative and non-fiction writing in English. Following on from our learning about the human body last half term, in Science we will learning about different animal groups and classifying a range of animals according to whether they are mammals, birds, fish and reptiles, carnivores, omnivores or herbivores.
Our core text for Autumn 2 is 'Mouse on the River' by Alice Melvin.
We have been exploring fractions in maths! In particular halves and quarters. Test us at home to see if we can find half or quarter of an amount or object.
In Geography this half term we will be learning about the four countries of the United Kingdom. We started this unit of learning by revisiting our previous learning about our local area and talked about Nelson being a town in the country of England. We explored maps of Nelson and used geographical vocabulary to talk about the human and physical features we could see on each map.
In Design and Technology this half term we are going to design, make and evaluate an animal sliding mechanism which we'll use to create a picture of zoo animals where several animals are able to move by sliding or on a lever.
To begin this project, we looked at a range of books that have moving parts. We explored how we could make each part move and discussed how each mechanism worked.
We then practised the skills needed to make a slider mechanism.
Today we had a special visit from Mr Dylan the Reptile expert who shared his amazing animals with us. We were able to stroke them, watch them eat, HOLD THEM (if we were feeling brave) and we learnt so much about each one. This will link into our fabulous science learning all about sorting and classifying animals this term.
