1. Learning Map for Blue Class: Autumn 1 Humans Vs Dinosaurs
Children to create a story about a known setting applying their story writing skills.
Punctuation focus: full stops, capital letters, exclamation marks, question marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contracted forms i.e. ‘isn’t.’
Silly stuff: Poetry
Children to create a silly poem.
Children to explore different poems.
Children to identify features of a poem Children to use appropriate features when poetry writing i.e. ‘rhyming’ and ‘verses’
Phonics and speaking and listening
Phonics: Children to develop knowledge of phonics through reading aloud and with peers.
Present and past tense work.
Dinosaur phonics.
Children to learn how to decode and recognise words through blending and segmenting sounds.
Children to develop and focus on grammar through reading, writing and speaking.
David Learn about who David was and his importance to Christians Learn and understand David’s relationship with God. Make comparisons with different religious people.
Developing typing skills
To type up a story by using learned skills
Literacy
Reading
Children to read a variety of texts and to apply their phonics skills to their reading.
Children to explore the ‘Funny Bones’ book in detail and to read for information.
Reading for a purpose: Body and healthy eating themed guided reading.
Computing
Blue Class
Humans Vs Dinosaurs RE
Swimming and Dance Developing rhythm and movement to music. PE
Ordering and comparing numbers using < and >
Art
PSHE
Theme
New Beginnings
Maths
Science
Art/DT
Exploring dinosaur art. Using a range of skills and materials to create dinosaur pictures.
Creating dinosaur puppets.
Learning number bonds to 20 through dinosaur games.
Geography
Learn about daily and seasonal weather patterns.
Learna bout the climate and how it has changed. Make comparisons between weather patterns and relate this to the extinction of dinosaurs.
Understanding which nubmers are odd and even.
Understanding the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction.
Recording calculations into number sentences,
Living things in their habitats
Children to look at the variation of different humans and animals by making comparisons.
Children to find out about how living things are adapted to different habitats.
Children to understand a simple food chain..
History
Learning about famous Palaeontologists and what they discovered.
Local
Area visit
Name and describe 2d and 3d shapes.
Sort shapes using venn and carroll diagrams.
Solving dinosaur based problems.