SPRING 2

Literacy 

The children will reading the book Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura and focusing on re-telling the story and writing an alternative ending. The children will be use expanded noun phrases to develop description and subordinating conjunctions to extend ideas and sentences. 

As part of their learning, the children will be going to Celtic Harmony Camp, which is a fantastic opportunity to experience first hand what life was during the Stone Age. The children will be writing a recount of their trip using time adverbials to order the events. 

Things to do at home:

• Research The Stone Age - How was life different during this period?

• Create  a model of a Stone Age camp

• Make some of the tools Stone Age people would use

History and Geography

To support our learning in Literacy, in History we will learn about the Stone Age. The children will focus on what historians mean by the Stone Age and how humans survived during the Stone Age. They will explore the tools used by early humans, what they were made of and how they were used. They will also take a look at how the UK was joined to Europe with a land bridge, and why it is an island today.

Our unit in Geography is all about maps. Children will use directional language (North, East, South, West) and a compass to navigate. They will look at why maps are designed differently (large scale and small scale) and how to use keys on a map. Children will also practise making their own maps using aerial images.

Things you can do at home:

• Create or invent a tool that would help them to hunt or gather for food only using materials that would have been available during the Stone Age.

• Children could practise using directional language and using maps to navigate themselves around their local area. 

• Take a look at aerial images of local places and identify familiar features.