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On Thursday it is World Book Day and the children can dress up
as a book character for the day. We
will be looking at all the costumes in the morning and lots of ‘book related’
activities will go on throughout the day.
Also our school book fair will be open after school for
purchasing books so please come along and have a look at the selection.
Maths
This
week in Numeracy we will be introducing multiplication as ‘lots of’ and
introducing the × sign to the children.
We will be concentrating
on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables so if you can help your children practise these
that would be great! Some of the Year 2 children may be ready to start working
on the 3’s and 4’s if they are confident with these. The children will continue
to sing along with Percy Parker to help them learn their tables!
Year
1 children will count on and back in 1s or 10s and say the number that is 1 or
10 more or less up to 100.
Year 2 children will count on in 2s, 5s or
10s; recognise odd and even numbers; and
understand multiplication as ‘lots of’ and use the × sign
Websites to help
English
This week the children will be writing a story to be entered
into a creative writing competition. We will be learning that a story has a
beginning, middle and end. The children will be thinking of their favourite
story and write a sentence under each sub heading. Using jungle themed
pictures, the children will be ordering them into a story of their choice. We
will then start planning our stories and think of a beginning, middle and
ending which will be discussed with a talking partner. By Friday we will have
created a first draft and written this neatly onto the templates ready to be
sent off for the competition.
Ask your child what is their favourite book? What happens at
the beginning, middle and end?
Have a go at some fun online literacy games at home.
Topic
Our
second week of the new topic, ‘Humans and other Animals’ starts with the
children learning to identify the five senses and the parts of the body that we
use for them.
This
week the children will find out that some animals have better sense than us,
while other senses may not be as good as ours.
With
your permission the children will undertake a range of fun activities based on
the different senses. We will be using
our sense of hearing to identify different sounds; sight to identify objects;
smell to identify a range of odours, touch to figure out what hidden objects
are and taste to tickle their taste buds and identify common foods.
Interesting
fact – did you know that around 80% of what we think is taste is actually
smell. Flavour, is a combination of taste and smell perception. Test this
yourself by holding your nose closed the next time you eat something, can you
taste it very well? Chances are you can't.
Come and
See
We will be continuing with the topic of “Meals.” The children will be exploring
families and groups that share special meals.
We will ask the children to share
their experiences of a special meal; it might have been a birthday party,
Christmas, First Holy Communion or a Baptism celebration.
·
When might you have a special meal?
·
What makes a meal special?
·
Who was there?
·
Who prepared the meal?
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What did you share?
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How did you help?
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What did you like best about it?
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How did it make you feel?
The children will work with a talk partner to share
memories of a special meal and discuss why it was special.
We hope you have a great week!
The Key Stage 1 team.
