Language & Literacy – During Term 2

Talking & Listening

· Developing active listening skills in all areas of learning

· Expressing thoughts, feelings and opinions in response to traditional stories.

· Retelling traditional stories using the conventions of TS language

· Participating in drama activities linked to traditional stories

Reading (At appropriately differentiated levels)

· Reading dialogue in traditional stories

· Using the punctuation when reading dialogue

· Recognising and reading HFW quickly in context

· Comparing and contrasting settings and characters in traditional stories.

· Developing comprehension skills – literal and inferential (including prediction)

Writing (At appropriately differentiated levels)

· Spelling: segmenting and blending phonemes to build words, working on the concepts that: two/three/four letters can show one sound.

· We will continue to work on developing sentence structure and punctuation.

· Examples of writing tasks will include:

o Retelling/sequencing traditional stories (use of past tense)

o Writing dialogue in speech bubbles

o Writing descriptions of traditional story characters

o Writing a letter, linked to our traditional stories topic

World Around Us (Topic Work) –

This term our topic is Materials

Our topics this half term will be ‘Traditional Stories and Materials.’ This topic will have cross curricular links to Geography, Science, History, Art, Literacy, Music, P.E and Numeracy.

Some of the activities we will be involved in are:

· Design a waterproof hood for Little Red Riding Hood

· Design a load-bearing bridge.

· Make strong concrete for the three little wolves.

Art:

Drama activities (e.g. hot seating) with characters from Traditional Stories and participation in the Dungannon Speech and Drama Festival.

Weaving with different materials

Music:

· Begin to recognise and use simple graphic notation

· Learn to play glockenspiel/Junior Choir

P.E: Gymnastics and Irish Football Association (multisports)

R.E: The childhood of Jesus and stories about Jesus’s ministry.

P.D.M.U: families, relationships and understanding empathy

I.C.T: Programming with Scratch Junior, Word Processing - Designing an invitation for Cinderella's party and iMovie