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Welcome to another busy week. The Christmas play parts have now been given
out and we will be starting to look at the formalities of the play in the
upcoming week.
This week sees the first of our
Parent and Teacher consultations. You should have received your appointment
time before the holidays if one was requested. Please remember these times are
10 minutes each, so if you require longer, you may be asked to make an
additional appointment to ensure that other parents are not kept waiting.
Maths
This week in Maths we
will be learning about time. We will begin by learning the order of the days of
the week, months and seasons and the events which happen in each.
The Year 1 children will
know the days of the week; order familiar events in time, know the seasons of
the year; begin to know the months.
The Year 2 children will
use units of time: hours in a day, days in a week, use units of time: months in
a year, seasons in a year.
Some
websites to help:-
English
This week we are looking at non-fiction books and focusing on
an e-book called ‘Can I keep an orang-utan as a pet?’ The children will be
learning what a contents page is and how to find specific information using
this and what a glossary is. The e-book has links throughout it with extra
information and maps of where the orang-utans live. The children will be
writing facts they know about an orang-utan before they read the book and then
what they would like to find out. They will eventually produce an information
booklet about orang-utans and then answer the question, ‘Can I keep an
orang-utan as a pet?’
Ask your child how they look after their pets and what the
animals need. If your child does not have a pet, which pet would they like and
how would they look after it?
Have a go at some fun online literacy games.
Topic
This week we will start
our new topic for this term called ‘People, Poppies and Pets’.
More specifically this
week the children will learn about Remembrance Day, why we remember people who
have suffered and died in wars and the significance of the poppy.
On Tuesday we will hold a
two-minute silence at 11 o’clock giving the children an opportunity to reflect
on and remember those who fought in the wars.
The children will be
making their own poppies to create a class wreath, which will be displayed in
our classroom.
Some useful videos that
will be incorporated within the whole class teaching include:
REMEMBRANCE VIDEO - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25406723
POPPIES VIDEO - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25454559
COMMEMORATION VIDEO - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25463539
.
Come and
See
Belonging
We will be continuing to look at the relate part of the topic
which is belonging to God’s family.
We will be discussing the following pictures about baptism.
Key
questions being asked:
·
Who
can you see in the pictures?
·
What
are they doing?
Individually the children will
sequence pictures describing what happens at a Baptism. The children will then
talk about key words that each picture represents.
We will be looking at the key
words:
Sacrament
Oil of Chrism
Welcome
God’s family
Font
Godparents
The children will watch a video of a baptism and we will discuss the
following questons:
·
The
priest asks the parents what name the child will be given. What name would you
choose? (Hint: it would be good to choose the name of a saint that the child
could find out about and imitate in their life.)
·
Why
do you think the Good News of God’s love is read at a Baptism?
·
What
are the words the priest uses when he baptises someone?
Thank you for your continued support- and have a great week!
The Key Stage 1 team.
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