Overview For Spring Term 2 2018

WEEK / 1Chinese New Year
/ 2 Blast Off!
RocketsWorld Book Day
/ 3Planets World Book Week / 4Space aliens / 5Space aliens / 6Caring for our Earth - conservation
Easter
LITERACY
Space adventure story / Focus Story - Dragons in the City, Non fiction books,
Writing menus, order forms. Write wishes for wishing tree. Make Powerpoint of story of the Great Race, using small world toys Add speech bubbles. / Focus Story – Whatever Next? Sequencing
Passports for space
Writing menus, space diary / log / list what to take to space
Write questions to Tim Peake / Focus Story Non fiction books, using contents and index page
Writing descriptions, imaginary planets
Storytelling / Focus Story – Aliens in Underpants
Space postbox
Creative writing
Thinking about adjectives. / Descriptive writing,
Poems
Book review / Focus story - 5Little Men in a Flying Saucer. Aliens Save The World.
Writing prayers
Non fiction books,
Re-telling Easter story
Reading clues for Easter Egg Hunt.
MATHS
Weekly challenge / Recognising and adding coins,
Adding to make a total / Subtraction
Using timers
Counting on and back. / 2D 3D shapes make space station
Compare distance and weight and solve problems / Position & direction.
Recognise & recreate patterns.
Sorting. / Addition and subtraction. Make space board game.
Doubling. / Money in role play.
Problem solving.
Doubling
Easter egg problem solving
UTW
Ongoing
Exploration table / Learning about China and the Chinese New Year.
Making and tasting noodles. / ICT Google Earth
qpootle5.com
Space station –construction
Night and Day
Making rockets / ICT – We’re going on a space hunt powerpoint
Different environments
Learn about planets
Make moon buggy, rockets, moon biscuits / ICT – Bee Bot.
Draw pic, add text
Make moving alien
Light and mirrors / ICT – Bee Bot
Magnets
Ipad – animation
Different technologies.
Frozen alien eggs. / ICT Making poster
Pollution
How can improve environment?
Easter Garden
RE
Value - Justice / Chinese New Year / Stories Jesus told. / Mothering Sunday / Stories Jesus told / Stories Jesus told / Easter (cross)
CREATIVE
AND EXPRESSIVE / Chinese dragon dance.
Finger painting – blossom pictures.
Making Chinese lanterns, cards , making a dragon from reclaimed materials. / Class background for space. Make rockets.
Space walk – Michael Jackson
Sewing space rockets. / Parachute, moon biscuits
salt dough planets
Collage of planets - textures
The Planets CD / Making kites
Alien masks
Collage alien
Paint alien
Salt dough alien
Alien puppets / Using instruments sound effects
Making imaginary maps / Designing poster.
Fabric collage
Designing eggs
Sewing a cross
ROLE PLAY / Chinese Restaurant / Child led –space station, with Dark Tent, tunnels, tents, explorers gear, Captains Log, / Space agent / Alien school.
PHYSICAL / Different ways of moving using apparatus. Dance, using streamers and parachute. Athletics with specialist teacher.