English

English 

In English this half term, our focus story is The Curious Case of the Missing Mammoth by Ellie Hattie. This is an exciting adventure story all about a little boy who finds a mammoth and ends up exploring a magical museum. The children will eventually plan and write their own version of the story. Along the way, we will be focusing on securing punctuation such as capital letters and full stops within our sentences and will introduce the use of question marks and exclamation marks. We will also be learning how to use some conjunctions to join two ideas together and will recap the use of adjectives to describe. By the end of the unit, we want the children to feel confident at adding er and est onto words to compare.  

In Spellings (in class) this half term, we will focus for 2 weeks on adding s or es to words to make them plural.  The first weeks focus will be on adjacent consonants and the 2nd week will be focus on vowel diagraphs.  After that, we will look at the letter names of the alphabet and how they are most commonly seen. Then we will focus on words ending with y that sounds like it ends ee- carry, family etc.