Our next topic is… ‘The Senses!’

English We are reading ‘Polar Bear, Polar Bear, what do you hear?’, ‘We are Going on a Bear Hunt’ and ‘The Gruffalo’ together as a class. Our talk for writing texts are: •  Trip Recount •  Monkey See, Monkey Do

Maths Our next topics will be: •  Measurements (length,

height, mass, capacity and temperature)

•  Consolidating our prior learning

Wider Curriculum We will: •  Explore the 5 senses: !  Investigating how sound travels and recording sounds !  Learning about sight and the effects of losing this sense including the

use of braille and guide dogs !  Taste testing !  Creating a texture walk

Arts

•  Creating portraits inspired by Picasso.

Project Menu Over the holiday you could: •  Create a texture board

using different materials. •  Make a musical

instrument. •  Try a new food – write

about how it tastes. •  Go on a ‘senses’ walk –

photograph what you see and feel, list the smells and sounds.

Key Words sense sight hearing taste smell touch Blind braille guide dog bitter

sweet sour salty eyes nose ears tongue skin texture

Community Links

•  Class Trip to the Eden Project.

•  Raising money for Guide Dogs for the Blind including a visit.

•  Senses walk for pre-schoolers.

End Goal To know the five senses that the body has, explore and

describe them. Have you ever wondered

what it would be like to lose a sense?

Other •  We will continue to have PE on

Thursday afternoon with Go Active. •  Please hear your child read as

regularly as possible at home. It really does help them to progress much faster if we work together. Your help is so very important. Thank-you.

•  Homework will continue to be set on a Friday (now it will be found in a plastic zip wallet!) and pupils have a week to complete it before it is marked.

•  Any safe and clean recycling is still required for junk modelling.