This term our unit of inquiry is ‘Creativity can be inspired by objects around us’. We will be following different lines of inquiry to help us discover:
Our unit of inquiry will lead onto considering what it is like to work on a cocoa bean farm and we will look at the production line from bean to bar. During this inquiry, we will expand our knowledge of the different countries and oceans in our world and will relate this to the production line of chocolate. In addition, we will find out about the role the Aztecs had in discovering and making chocolate. Later on in the term, we will design and make our own chocolate bars. We will consider the design of packaging, choose what we would like to include in our chocolate bar and promote our own chocolate bars by persuading our peers to buy them.
- What do we know about chocolate?
- What do we know about the Aztecs?
- How does chocolate go from bean to bar?
Our unit of inquiry will lead onto considering what it is like to work on a cocoa bean farm and we will look at the production line from bean to bar. During this inquiry, we will expand our knowledge of the different countries and oceans in our world and will relate this to the production line of chocolate. In addition, we will find out about the role the Aztecs had in discovering and making chocolate. Later on in the term, we will design and make our own chocolate bars. We will consider the design of packaging, choose what we would like to include in our chocolate bar and promote our own chocolate bars by persuading our peers to buy them.
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In English, we will be reading ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ by Roald Dahl. As we start to read this book we will let you know what chapters we are focusing on each week so that you can read along at home. To start the term, we will begin by writing diary entries from Charlie’s point of view, using inference based on what we have already read to describe characters, settings and key events. We will be writing instructions in order to make our own chocolate bars and we will learn how to include imperative verbs (verbs which give an instruction, i.e. stick, mix, weigh). As we read further on, after recapping the features of a newspaper report, we will write our own based on the main events in the story. At the end of this term we will be reading, retelling and writing poems also. One poem that we will be looking at, in line with our ‘chocolate’ theme, is ‘Chocolate Cake’ by Michael Rosen.
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Following on from our maths last term, we are beginning this term learning how to divide by sharing and grouping. We will apply this knowledge to divide by 2, 5 and 10, as well as exploring the relationship between multiplication and division facts. Following on from this, we will be moving on to creating and interpreting statistics using tally charts, pictograms and bar charts. We will be applying our knowledge of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s when interpreting scales on charts and interpreting information from it. At the end of the term, we will be recapping and building upon our knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes by identifying and describing their properties, comparing and sorting them and exploring lines of symmetry shapes also.
