Happy New Year!
Happy
2015! I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and that Santa brought
you everything you wished for! Thank you to you all too, for the very generous
gifts that you gave all the staff - they were all very much appreciated.
Having recharged our batteries, it is time to start the SPRING term with gusto. We will be stepping up the pace from now, as this is a very short term. We have a great deal to fit in, so here goes with what we have in store for the start to the new term...
Having recharged our batteries, it is time to start the SPRING term with gusto. We will be stepping up the pace from now, as this is a very short term. We have a great deal to fit in, so here goes with what we have in store for the start to the new term...
Information
A reminder that we will be out of school on Friday morning for
our trip to the Pantomime at the Parr Hall. Please can all children be in
school promptly as we will be leaving school promptly at 9:00am.
A letter will be coming home this week about an educational
visit to the Bridgewater Hall for a concert watching a performance by the Halle Orchestra. This
will be to support the topic for this half term on The Carnival of the Animals
by Camille Saint-Saens. It will be a great opportunity for the children to
watch a live orchestra and participate in one of the songs.
Maths
We
will also be reviewing the numeracy assessments which the children did just
before Christmas, in order to clarify any misunderstanding that occurred.
One
way you could help at home, is with missing number activities. Many of the
children found it challenging when we turned around some of the number
sentences:
2 + 3
= ? was easy to calculate, but they found it hard to grasp 5 = 3 + ?
Try
doing this type of activity at home with number cards are symbol cards and see
how many correct number sentences your child can make.
This
type of question comes up every year on every assessment all the way up to year
6, so if they are able to grasp the concept now, it will become easier when
they use bigger numbers.
Click
on the tens and units postbox to post the letters. Be careful, as you cannot
post all the letters!
This
will open up lots of things that we use in class, but for this week, you will
need to click on the place value calculator. Although it says it is aimed at
Key Stage 2, many of the children will be able to use the knowledge they have
to calculate the answers.
Having used this before
the holidays, we know how much the children enjoyed it!
English
This week we are
looking at winter. We will be going outside and using our senses to find out
what we can see, hear smell and feel. We will then fill in an acrostic poem
using WINTER as the key word. We will then go on to look at shape poetry and
write our own shape poems. After the snow and all the cold, frosty
weather we had over the Christmas period the children should be full of ideas
to write some excellent poems!
Ask your child
what winter means to them. What can they feel, see, hear and smell on the way
to school?
Have a go at some
fun online literacy games.
Topic
This week we will be
looking at weather. We will be reading
poetry about the months of the year and seasons as well as looking at weather
forecasts and the symbols used on weather maps.
Our main focus will be on
winter and throughout the week the children will record the weather on their
weather charts using symbols and weather phrases to describe what is happening.
We will also find out why
the weather changes in each season - the children will be asked to think about
why they think this is before we discuss our ideas as a whole class.
Weather maps for each
season will be created using the symbols and ‘phrases’ we have learnt.
Interesting
fact – did you know that snow
is not white: Snow is actually clear and colorless.
Come and
See
We will be starting a new topic called Special People.
Some activities we will be doing in school:-
·
Bring in photographs of special people in their families and talk about
the pictures.
·
Bring in stories of people who help us.
·
Invite a special school person to talk about how they help in school.
·
Paint a picture of different people who help us and include some
captions about each person.
·
Role-play some special people like doctors, priests, policemen and
women, friends, grandmas, teachers etc.
·
Think of all the words which express the special things people offer us:
e.g. care, time, love, friendship. Make a list of special people with the
reasons why they are special and how they help us.
We hope you have a great week!
The Key Stage 1 team.
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