Information
This week we will
be commencing our curriculum with a range of new topics – more information
below.
The children will
be starting PE this week and will need to have a PE kit in school.
A number of
children have been complaining about insect bites to arms, legs and faces. If
possible, could you spray your child with insect repellent before school each
day. This will hopefully stop them being bitten and the irritating itching
which follows. Thank you.
English
We
begin our topic of Journeys with a lovey story called ‘My Granny went to
Market.’ The children will fly away with Granny as she takes a magic carpet
ride around the world, collecting a steadily increasing number of souvenirs
from each exotic location! This rhyming story will take young readers on an
adventurous journey to different countries while teaching them to count along
the way.
Maths
This week, we will be assessing the children’s knowledge of number – can they match the correct number of objects to the digit? Do they know the number names? Are they able to form the number correctly? Can they count in 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s? Can they order numbers correctly, both forwards and backwards?
A good way of practising ordering numbers (and a good way for children to check for themselves if they have got it right!) is to completed traditional ‘dot-to-dot’ puzzles. Tesco or Asda have lots of books of these ready-made for you!
Perhaps when you are putting the shopping away this weekend, you could ask your child to group things together – If I have 6 tins, how many more will I need to make 8? 10? Also, why not get your child to pair up all the socks for the family? This is a really good way of encouraging them to count in twos.
Topic
The first topic of this year is ‘JOURNEYS’. We will begin by asking the children can they recognise what a journey is and to talk about any journeys that they have made including how they travel to school. This will result in making a block graph to show which mode of transport is the most popular.
Come and See
The
first topic this year is about “Families”
The
key questions we will be exploring this week are:
·
Who might be in a family?
· How are all families different?
·
What might each person do?
·
How do they show love and care for each
other?
·
What things do they do together?
Activities
you can do at home
·
Make a family album.
·
Play ‘happy families’ card game.
·
Make your own family finger puppets, use
them for a puppet show.
·
We have also asked the
children to bring in a photograph of their family to be used as part of a
classroom display. Please write your child’s name on the back so the photo can
be returned safely.Web links
Click on the number names in the middle of the scale to match the number name to the digit. This will be a really useful site to bookmark, as we will be using it regularly throughout the year.
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/numbers_eng/numbers_e.html
This site is useful for practicing the formation of each of the numbers. The first slide is VERY fast, so click on the green arrow on the bottom right-hand side to practice the numbers individually.
http://www.numbernut.com/basic/activities/number_mem20_1-10words.shtml
Play a memory game and match the number names to the digits at the same time!
http://www.sums.co.uk/playground/n2a/playground.htm
Click on the ‘continue’ button to start the activity. This activity looks at the number names up to 100, so give it a go if you fancy a challenge!
http://www.primaryonline.co.uk/sitetour/pol/blastoff1.html
A lovely game in which you have to launch 5 spaceships! Remember that the number name won’t always match a spaceship, so you have to click on ‘next’ until you get a match. This game is most suitable for Year 1, as it covers numbers up to 20.
http://www.ictgames.com/postletter.html
Fancy a challenge? Listen to the number and post the letter in the correct letterbox.
A great site, where you have to match the shape of the HFW to its spelling
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/cvc/index.shtml
Choose any of these activities to help with CVC words (cat, hat, mat etc)
http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurwordsrepeat.html
You need to turn the volume up for this one! Click on the dinosaur egg to hear the word and then click on the written word that matches it.
http://www.ictgames.com/lcwc.html
You can either choose from the lists of prepared words, or you can type in the words that your child is working on. You need to click on start to begin ‘look, say, cover, write, check’.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=stickyl
Drag and drop the letters on the green letter rack at the top of the page and then click on the ‘Send’ button to send it to the word bank.
http://www.ictgames.com/wordreader.html
Listen to the word and then click on the matching flower
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/airport_xray.html
This may bring back memories of your holidays (doesn’t it seem a long time ago?!) Scan the suitcase to find the high frequency words
We hope you all have a great week!
The Key Stage 1 team.
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