Autumn 1: Changing Places
Changing Places
This term we are going to become cartographers as we develop our geography skills, exploring, surveying and mapping our local area. We will spend time looking at different types of maps, how the land around us is used and they types of settlement.
In art, we are going to be looking at the local artist Anna Dillon, who creates beautiful colourful landscapes of local landmarks. We will use her paintings as inspiration to learn how to mix colours, create the illusion of texture and create contours in our hills and fields. We will complete the term by displaying our own landscape paintings in the hall for everyone to enjoy!
In our first term of geography, we will be recapping the countries of the UK and introducing some of the major counties and cities. We will be finding out about the physical geography of parts of Oxfordshire and our local area. We will also look more closely at the human land use of our area, in particular Benson Village and RAF Benson - finding out about our very local area by using field skills and map making.
Our books for English this term are:
Our class reading book this term is:
We started reading 'The Wild Robot' and made split pin puppets of what we thought Roz looks like, based on the text.
We made tunnel books to show a scene of our book 'The Wild Robot'.
To remember the Battle of Britain, we learnt about The Blackout, creating a display of paintings and blackout poems using pages from our class book.
