Dosbarth
Coala - We're going to busy this term!
Theme:
Pop- Up This project has a design technology focus
and teaches children how to make cards using simple mechanisms and a range of
materials.
Language,
Literacy & Communication Skills
ü Identify
features of Traditional Tales and Fairy Tales (including those from Wales)
ü Good/Bad
Character Profiles – wanted posters
ü Read a range of
simple fairy stories individually and as a class
ü Retelling of
traditional tales
ü Critical
Literacy – Looking at a tale from a different character’s point of view
ü Watch Sleeping
Beauty in the New Theatre
ü Fortune Lines-
Plot characters’ feelings
ü Listen to poems
and songs about fairy tales and fairy tale characters. Look at the use of
rhyme, word play and alliteration
ü Develop an
understanding of the use of nouns, verbs and pronouns in their writing and
include these in the retelling of these tales
ü Letter Writing
to a character – Link with Personal and Social
ü Write a
non-chronological report about an event from a Traditional Tale
ü Hot Seating
characters from tales
ü Interviews
ü Drama – Freeze
frames of particular scene from tales
Personal
& Social Development, Well-Being & Cultural Diversity
ü Citizenship
through Traditional Tales – Children will discuss and learn about right and
wrong, good and bad, fair and unfair, caring and inconsiderate
ü Communicate and
reflect on the decisions made in stories, situations or personally, suggesting
alternative responses.
Mathematical
Development
ü Rehearse
addition and subtraction facts
ü Describe and
extend number sequences
ü Count on and
back in steps of any size
ü Odd/even
numbers
ü Recognise and
find simple fractions
ü Solve a given
problem by collecting, sorting and organising information in simple ways
ü Recognise right
angles and quarter and half turns
ü Create
their own simple compositions for a retelling of a
traditional
tale
Knowledge & Understanding of the World
ü Sorting
materials according to their properties
ü Plan
and carry out an investigation to discover the best material for their pop up
books
ü Design
and plan a card suitable for an invitation making sure the card will contain
moving parts or mechanisms
ü Make
the card or invitation for sleeping beauty using moving parts, joints and
mechanisms
ü Email
invitation to the prince
Welsh Language Development
ü Children
role play characters from Sleeping Beauty and use
the
phrases: Beth ydy dy enw di? Faint ydy dy oed di? Sut
wyt
ti? Beth wyt t’n hoffi wneud? Beth wyt ti’n gwisgo?
Ble
rwyt ti’n byw?
ü Produce
zig-zag books of characters from Sleeping Beauty with a description of possible illnesses they
could have practising the above phrases
ü Role
play a scene from a doctor’s surgery practising phrases based on illnesses
ü Read
simple poems about illnesses
ü Read
simple welsh books based on traditional tales
Things you might like to do at home to help
your child:
ü Daily
reading
ü Daily
speed sounds
ü Daily
spelling practise of red words
ü Daily
practise of number pairs to 10, 20 and 100 (e.g. 2+8 = 10, 3+17 = 20, 75+25 =
100) and finding 1/2s and 1/4s of amounts
ü Practise
mental maths and tables 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10
ü Explore
different materials in the home and their properties
ü Provide
a range of materials for free play that can be squashed, twisted, folded,
crumpled and stretched
ü Find
2D and 3D objects in the natural environment or at home
ü Find
symmetrical patterns/objects at home
ü Practise
adding and subtracting, doubling and halving, 10 more/less
ü Share
stories together on traditional tales and discuss and compare similarities and
differences and characters within
ü Describe
the properties of simple 2D shapes
ü Use
the Internet to find information about traditional tales or research the
different types of mechanisms in pop up cards e.g. V fold, flap lift and simple
box fold
ü Make
simple moving pop up cards or mechanisms
ü Visit
the local library and find stories or poems about fairy tales and fairy tale
characters using pop up or moving books if possible
ü Encourage
your child to find certain keys on the keyboard to aid familiarity
ü Encourage
your child to ask questions and try to find the answers
ü Encourage
your child to keep on trying, even when things are tricky
ü Complete
the weekly ‘talk homework’
ü Talk
about anything and everything but always try to encourage the use of new,
adventurous words and connectives (e.g. ‘because’)
Thank
You for your continued support!
Mrs Howells & Mrs Stephens
