Medium Term Plan

Term 4 2020

Class- Willow

Theme- The Great Fire of London

Writing

• Diary entry from Samuel Pepys – description of setting – expanded noun phrases
• Book review and character profile –‘Diary of a killer Cat’
• Retelling story from different viewpoint, using past tense and progressive form
• Using adjectives and adverbs
• Practise cursive handwriting joins.

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Reading

• Diary of a killer Cat
• The Great Fire Of London
• ‘The Wolf’s Story’ compare with The Three Little Pigs
• ‘Yeh Shen and the Magic Fish’

SPAG

• Verb tenses, adding ‘ing’, adding ‘ed’
• Different spellings of long vowel phonemes for ‘air’, ‘are’, ‘ere’, ‘ear’; Homophones
• Different spellings of long vowel phonemes for ‘or’, ‘oor’, ‘aw’, ‘au’, ‘ore’
• Compound words; ‘wh’, ‘ph’ and ‘ch’; syllables; ‘er’, ‘ir’ and ‘ur; spell words with common prefixes – ‘un’ and ‘dis’

Maths

• Counting in sequences of one, two, three, five and ten, odd and even numbers
• Record number sentences using +, -, x and division.
• Number bonds to ten and 20, addition doubles to at least 10+10, together with corresponding halves.
• Multiplication facts of 2x, 5x, 10x and 3x tables, with corresponding division facts.
• Properties of 3D shapes
• Telling the time to ¼ to and at 5 minute intervals
• Giving change and equivalent money amounts.
• Fractions – halves, quarters, three quarters and thirds. Equivalent fractions
• Investigate and solve maths problems and puzzles
• Handling data, including bar charts, Carroll and Venn Diagrams

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Science

• Materials and their uses- investigate different materials and their properties
• Experiment with different materials to see if they are waterproof
• Link to building materials at time of The Great Fire of London 1666
• Seasonal changes – record temperature in Winter and Spring Class Books and update weather chart daily
• Take part in RSPB Birdwatch survey – link to recording in bar charts

History

• The Great Fire of London 1666
• How did it start?  Where did it start? Why did London burn?  How do we know? How did they put it out? What happened after the fire?

Geography

• Location knowledge – where is London?  Map of the UK
• Name and locate 7 continents and 5 oceans

Computing

• Scratch animation

Art

• Exploring buildings through rubbings and printing

DT

• Structures –designing and making fire engines and Tudor /Stuart buildings

PE

• Basketball

Music

• Song ‘London’s Burning, sung as a round.  Using percussion instruments to make rhythms- glockenspiels and xylophones
• Learning to play the Ocarina

RE

• The Easter Story

MFL

• Greetings and numbers in French

PSHE

SRE

• Linked to R.E. – being kind and forgiving
• Differences in male and female animals