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2019 and 2020 

March Learning

Literacy

This month children will;

Talking and Listening

• Engage in group discussions about poetry: perform a poem

Text Level Work 

• Know and understand figurative language in poetry and prose, e.g. simile, onomatopoeia 

• Identify clues which suggest poems are older, e.g. language use, vocabulary, archaic words

• Understand how patterns of rhyme, rhythm and verse are used by the poet to create mood and meaning

Sentence Level Work

• Write poetry based on the structure and/or style of poems read

• Perform Poems

• Read and discuss poems in different forms

Word Level Work

• Develop use of adjectives.
• Use suffixes.

• Use adverbs.

• Extend understanding of prefixes.

• understand the implications of words which imply gender, including the –ess suffix, e.g. prince/princess, fox/vixen, king/queen

• Understand how suffixes can be added to nouns and verbs to create adjectives.

Numeracy

This month children will;

• Revise written addition with carrying.

• Develop a written method for division calculation within 99.

• Develop a written method for a multiplication calculation within 99.

• Solve a range of multiplication and division problems using both written and mental methods, selecting the operation required.

Mental Maths

• Mentally add a single digit to a 2 digit number, bridging the 10.
• Mentally find what must be added to any 2 digit number to make 100.
• Know which unit of measurement to use in different situations.

• Choose the appropriate measuring tool, explaining reason for choice.

• Read analogue and digital clocks to 1 minute intervals, calculating durations.

• Understand area - Estimate and measure areas using the cm2 as a standard unit.

Shape and Space

• To understand that co-ordinates can be used to identify a point rather than a whole square.
• To understand positional language such as, forwards, back, left and right.

WAU

This month we will start our new topic – The Titanic.

This month children will learn;

• To place the sailing of the Titanic into the correct period of time.
• To understand that different ways of life differed greatly across society in 1912.
• Revise the oceans of the world.
• Learn the route the Titanic took.
• Place the key events leading up to the sinking of the Titanic in the correct order.
• Discuss the impact that individuals may have had on the sinking of the Titanic.

   

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