Sentence Construction & Punctuation:

Continue to recognise the need to demarcate the end of a sentence with a full stop and the start of a new one with a capital/ uppercase letter.

Develop independent sentence writing. 

Identify adjectives and use them to enhance our writing.

Understand the need for grammatical agreement in speech and writing, e.g. I am; we are

Explore the use of past tense. 

Begin to use verb tenses with increasing accuracy in speaking & writing: see/saw, go/went etc. 

Use speech marks.

Phonics & Spelling 

Revise the fact that two letters can represent one sound [e.g. sh, ch, th, ng, ck, wh, qu]

Know that the same phoneme (sound) can be represented in more than one way e.g. go, grow, float, note.

Begin to look at spelling rule e.g plural rules.

Vocabulary word level 

Understand terms singular and plural

Understand and use rules for plural words.

Understand words change when a suffix is added.

Understand concepts of opposites.

Writing

Understanding that sentences must make sense.

Writing simple sentences independently extending to longer pieces of work.

Handwriting:

Revise the correct formation of all lower and uppercase letters.

Begin to use the four basic handwriting joins.

This term our topic is ‘Castles’

• Identify features of a castle.
• Be able to name and describe the features. 
• Find out about life in a castle and who the different castle characters would be.
• Look at the job of a knight and find out how castles were defended.
• Compare and contrast our home to a castle.
• Look at castles in our locality and locate castles in Northern Ireland on a map.
• Find out about the past through artefacts and objects from the past.
• Investigate what causes metal to rust.
• Design and technology – design and make a moving drawbridge out of junk materials.