Stone Age to Celts

As Writers, within our traditional stories unit of writing, we will:

• Focus on writing story openings.
• Use adjectives to describe settings and characters.
• Learn how to use conjunctions.
• Use expanded noun phrases to describe.
• Learn to start our sentences in different ways.
• Grab and hold the reader's interest when writing a story opening.

As Writers, within our non-chronological report unit, we will:

• Use headings and subheadings to organise our writing.
• Organise information into paragraphs.
• Write in the third person and use the past tense.
• Be factual and accurate using technical vocabulary.
• Use longer complex sentences.

As Mathematicians, we will be:

• Learning about place value of numbers to 1000. 
• Representing numbers to 1000. 
• Finding 1, 10 or 100 more or less of a given number. 
• Comparing objects and numbers to 1000. 
• Ordering numbers
• Counting in 50s. 

As Scientists, we will be: 

• Examining the nutritional values of our food through food labels. 
• Recognising how to eat healthily using the Eat Well Plate and food pyramid. 
• Understanding what a Stone Age diet was like and how people hunted and gathered their meals. 
• Investigating how we can best preserve our food to stop apples turning brown. 
• Learning about food chains and understanding where our food comes from. 

As Musicians, we will be:

• Listening to Celtic music and comparing to modern day music. 
• Practising playing the recorder and learning some simple notes. 
• Composing our own simple pieces. 
• Performing to the rest of the class. 
• Evaluating our performances by looking at what we did well and what could be even better.

As Computer Technicians, we will:

• Understand computer networks including the internet.
• Use search technologies effectively.
• Collect, evaluate and present information.
• Use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly.

As Historians we will be:

• Learning what pre-history is and how we learn about it today.
• Comparing the daily life of people from different parts of the Stone Age.
• Understanding how technology developed in the Bronze Age.
• Understanding the impact of travel and trade in the Bronze Age.
• Comparing Celtic life to today.

As Religious Specialists we will be:

• Finding out why some people think life is a journey.
• Learn about Christian, Jewish and non-religious views.
• Finding out about Celtic beliefs. 

As Spanish speakers we will be:

• Practising greetings.
• Learning class commands and questions.
• Counting up to ten.