Weekly update 19th January 2015

 

 

Information

A letter went about the trip to the Bridgewater Hall to see a performance of the Halle Orchestra. Please could all permission slips be in school by Friday 23^rd January. Thank you.

Also a sticker was put in your child’s diary containing a link to the song that the children are learning to participate when we go to the Bridgewater Hall. The song is called “Turn to Shine” and the lyrics and music are available on the following link:-  www.halle.co.uk/Shine

Maths

This week the children will be learning about number bonds for a range of numbers. The Year 1 children will know the addition facts for pairs that total up to 8. The Year 2 children will rehearse addition and subtraction facts for pairs that total up to 10. If they are able to know the bonds to 10, then they will be able to easily calculate the bonds to 100 or even 1000.

They will also be applying their knowledge to begin to add three 1-digit numbers mentally

 

The children will be learning this number bond rhyme.

 

Number bonds to 10

 

0 and 10 are big strong men

 

 1 and 9 are feeling fine

 

 2 and 8 are never late  

 

 3 and 7 come from Devon

 

 4 and 6 like to play tricks

 

 5 and 5 come alive

 

6 and 4 hold open the door

7 and 3 visit for tea

 

  8 and 2 are feeling blue

 

  9 and 1 have just gone 

 

 10 and 0 are superheroes!!

 

Here are some websites to help with the children’s learning:

http://www.rainforestmaths.com/

 a favourite of mine! Click on level B or C and then any of the number activities

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/units120.html

how many questions can you answer in 2 minutes?

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/numberskills.html

click on any of the timed activities to help with number bonds knowledge.

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit%20the%20button%20v9.swf select the number bonds activity and then make 10 or 20. How many can you get right before the clock runs out?

http://nwlg.org/pages/resources/ma_num/swf/make10.html make 10

http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum20.html

make 20 - the dance will really make you giggle!

http://www.ictgames.com/brilliant_beadstring.html

move the beadstring to make patterns to 10 and 20

http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html

match the pipes to make the number bonds to 10

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/numberbond.html make up your own number bond games

http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/colquiz.html

for each question you get right, it colours in a part of the picture.

http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/bugs/bugrace3.html

 a great game for two players. Choose 0 as the lowest number and 9 as the highest, it will create a game to practice and reinforce those number bonds.

English 

We are continuing with our topic this week ‘Carnival of the Animals!’ We will be looking at an Australian tradition tale called ‘The Kangaroo and the Porpoise’ and Dreamtime tales which are from the Aboriginal culture. We will see how stories and art have carried the culture to present day by the tales being passed down orally to each generation. We will look at the English traditional tale – ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and adapt the characters and the setting as if it were set in Australia. The children will work in groups and act out and write their new versions of the story.

Our grammar focus this week is proper nouns.

Ask your child which traditional tales they know. Can they tell you the story?

Have a go at some fun online literacy games at home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html

Topic

Year 1/2 blog

Topic

Our second week of the new topic, ‘Carnival of the Animals”, starts with the children learning about orchestras, the four main families of instruments and the job of a conductor.  We will be listening to and describing the sounds different instruments make and discussing how they make us feel.

This week we will also study the work of Henri Rousseau – a famous French artist who, despite painting many jungle pictures, never actually went to the rainforest!

 

The children will learn to look at his artwork and identify key features that denote the work to be that of Rousseau.  For example, his paintings had very clear outlines using simple colours where jungle animals appeared in the foreground and lush green foliage in the background.

 

Using examples of his work the children will be drawing and painting their own picture in the style of Rousseau.

 

 

Interesting fact – did you know that the word ‘orchestra’ derives from a Greek phrase meaning ‘dancing place’ and that when the word ‘orchestra’ first appeared in English it meant ‘the art of dancing’.

 

Come and See

We are continuing our new topic of “Special People.” We have looked at our friends and family and who is special to us. We have asked the children to bring in photographs of people in their family and friends who are special to them and talk about this in class.

The children will make a large picture in outline of the inside of a church. In groups draw/paint all the furnishings to put into the church, include the people at the door.

We will explain that at the next session you will be speaking to people who help at Mass on Sunday, think of some questions you would like to ask them.

 

We hope you have a great week!

The Key Stage 1 team.