Hello everyone, I hope you have had a relaxing but fun Easter and have not eaten too many Easter eggs ! I hope you have all recharged you batteries and are ready to start our last term together. It is going to be a long one, 14 weeks in total!
Our topic for this term is 'Land Ahoy'. This
project has a design and technology focus and teaches children about a range of
mechanisms and forces and compares Cardiff Bay now and then. In the Innovate
Stage children apply their skills and understanding by designing and making
their own boat to rescue the cargo from a sinking ship. Here is a brief overview of what we will be doing:
Language,
Literacy and Communication Skills
* Wanted/Missing
posters for pirates.
* Listen to and
re-tell stories and poems about the sea, including traditional folk and fairy
stories from Wales and other countries.
* Read reports and accounts of
seashore rescues – in the locality or other areas.
* Pupils research and complete their own class book
on the different types of boats that exist past and present.
* Role-play on the theme of boats/sea rescue/pirates.
* Outdoor Role Play Area – visit a tourist
information centre to plan their visit around Cardiff Bay.
* Pupils read non-chronological
reports and discuss their features.
* Pupils write
their own non-chronological reports about boats.
* Letter Writing
describing the boat they have created.
* Hot seating
characters from stories.
* Interview a
‘ship’s Captain’ (real or imaginary!) to talk about their work.
* Drama – Freeze
frames of particular scenes from stories.
* Learn
strategies for planning their own narrative stories on a theme of boats or
rescue.
Mathematical Development
* Block graphs
and pictographs.
* Negative
numbers and temperatures.
* Division
* Capacity.
Physical Development
*Orienteering
Skills.
Creative Development
* Learn skills of
joining, gluing, folding and assembling a range of materials
to make simple
boats that float.
* Create and practise
dance and movement to music about water and the sea
including traditional sea
shanties.
*Make detailed
drawings of boats and mechanisms from first and second
hand source
materials. Explore, line, mark making
and using different media
to draw.
*Listen and
begin to sing along to songs about sea including sea shanties.
Knowledge &
Understanding of the World
*Find out about
different types of mechanisms and resources boats use
such as winches, pulleys,
levers and joints that allow movements.
*Play with a
range of toys, including boats that have moving parts and
mechanisms.
* Float, race,
push and pull different types of toy boats in a variety of places.
* Look in detail
at Cardiff Bay and find out about its physical and human
features.
*Compare Cardiff
Bay before and after The Barrage was built.
* Develop fair
tests to investigate which boat can carry most treasure/cargo.
Welsh Language
Development
*Counting to 100
in Welsh and answering the following Faint ydy 30 a 40?
Faint ydy 60 tynnu 40?
* Discussing
brothers and sisters in Welsh – Oes brawd neu chwaer da ti?
Carry out a questionnaire and graph the
results using Purple Mash.
* Read the book
‘Teulu Tomas’ and rewrite the book for older pupils using all
phrases
previously taught.
* Read their new
book to Dosbarth Twcan.
Some important dates for this term:
* Thursday April 11th - Dosbarth Coala and Cangarw visit to Cardiff Bay (more
details to follow)
*Monday 22 nd and Tuesday 23 rd April Parents Evening - if you haven't already
done so please can you return your slips with your preferred date and time.
