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Although it is the end of term, we still have a whole host of activities this week. On Monday afternoon, we will be hosting our Egg Rolling Competition. Please make sure that your eggs are hard boiled before decorated, it can get very messy in the hall if not. If possible can eggs for the competition be sent in a named box, to keep them safe before they are rolled!
We are all looking forward to the Easter Bonnet Parade on Wednesday afternoon, it is a pleasure to see how much work the children put into their bonnets and how proud they are of them.
This week we will be focusing much of our activities to the Easter Story.
We will also be finishing off assessments. Your child should come home this week with the outcome of their phonics check in school. The sounds highlighted are the sounds your child will be working on in school in daily phonic activities. We would be grateful if children could continue to practice these sounds at home as well.
Here are some websites to reinforce phonic awareness:
Phase 2: http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-2-games.html
Phase 3: http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-3-games.html
Phase 4: http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-4-games.html
Phase 5: http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-5-games.html
Have a lovely Easter Break
Take Care
Year 1/2 Team
Sunday 29 March 2015
Sunday 22 March 2015
Weekly update 23rd March
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This week on Friday the 27th we have our Easter
Fair. Children will be allowed to wear their own clothes on Friday, all
contributions towards the tombola are greatly appreciated. The tombola will
start at three and bingo starts at four.
Maths
This week we will be looking at how to solve word problems
using addition and subtraction and then moving on to use all four operations.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=postsortingwordproblem - Try some online questions.
English
This week the children will be learning about commas. We
will be writing lists using commas to separate each item and writing and before
the last item. We will be reading the book The cat who lost its purr. The
children will be writing a recount of the story and writing a character
description of the cat. We will also be completing a spelling and reading test this
week.
Can your child write a shopping list with you using
commas?
Have a go at some fun online literacy games at home.
Come and See
This week we are continuing a new topic called “Change.” We
will be exploring the fact that we change and grow. We will ask key questions
about Lent. We will use the letters of the word LENT to make up a prayer or
prayer, either individually or as a class. E.g. love helps us to …..
This week we will also be completing phonic assessments and
reading assessments.
Have a great week.
The Year1/2 Team
Saturday 14 March 2015
Weekly Update 16th March
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Thank you to all
of those who attended the Book Fair this week, the total book sales came to £1102.
Using commission earned, children will be able to enjoy many new books in the
library.
Class photograph
proofs went home on Friday. If you would like a copy of the class photograph,
the photographer will be collecting all orders in on Wednesday 25th March.
Maths
This week in Maths we will be collecting all kinds of data
from within our classes and using different ways to interpret it. We will focus
this week on:
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Organising and interpreting information in a
simple table
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Sorting, organising and interpreting information
in a block graph
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Sorting, organising and interpreting information in a pictogram
Here are some websites to try:
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=barchartv2 - Children can experiment with different
types of block graphs.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=18 - Interactive Activity where children can
create pictograms.
We will be reading the fabulous story Mucky Pup by Ken Brown
and writing a recount of this. The children will then be thinking of the next
adventure for Mucky Pup and writing about this. They will be encouraged to use
punctuation, adjectives and connectives. We are also going to start a weekly
reading comprehension this week where the children will need to read a story or
information and answer questions about this.
Can your child find any contractions in their reading
books?
Have a go at some fun online literacy games at home.
This week the children will be learning all about
classifying animals. In teams they will
be grouping animals according to their own classification system (e.g. number
of legs, with or without wings, diet, habitat and so on).
The children will be introduced to how scientists group
animals and learn: birds/reptiles/fish/mammals/amphibians/insects/plants. These classifications are used to help us
study them.
If you want to have a go visit: http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html
and
click on ‘Learn more’ (top right). Once
read through this click on to ‘continue’ and then play.
Interesting fact – People are mammals. So are dogs, cats, horses, duckbill
platypuses, kangaroos, dolphins and whales.
What do all these animals have in common, you ask?
The answer is – MILK!
If an animal drinks milk when it is a baby and has hair on its body, it
belongs to the mammal class.
This week we are starting a new topic called “Change.” We will be exploring the fact that we change and grow. The children will be looking at the following photographs and discussing the following questions:
• What
difference do you notice between winter and spring?
• Why do
you think the seasons change?
• How do
you think you have changed?
• What can
you do now that you were not able to before you came to school?
• How are
you better at sharing and being kind now?
Have a great week!
The Year 1/2 Team :)
Saturday 7 March 2015
Weekly update 9th March 2015
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Well, last week was a
fantastic reading inspired week! On Thursday we were so impressed with the
fantastic costumes that the children wore and enjoyed watching them all parade
in the morning. Thank you all so much for the time and effort that went into
making the children look fantastic!
This week we welcome Mrs Marsh back to school after her
maternity leave. She will be taking over in Mrs Malone’s class after her sad
departure last week to pastures new in Liverpool. We wish them both well as
they start new adventures.
Monday 9th sees the photographer in school. He will
be taking class photographs so please remind the children to stay neat and
tidy- or at least until they have had their photo taken!
Maths
This week in Numeracy we will be continuing to look at multiplication as
‘lots of’ and introducing the × sign to the children. We will also be beginning
to look at division by grouping objects, for example we will be asking if we
have 60p, how many 10p coins will we need to make this.
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.
They will also add two multiples of 10 by counting on in 10s.
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.
They will also begin to understand division as grouping.
Websites to help
English
This week the children will be continuing writing their
stories that will be entered into a creative writing competition. We will be
focusing on descriptive language, connectives and punctuation. We will then be
looking at what a ‘suffix’ is and recognising that it goes at the end of a word
to change the meaning. We will have lots of practice through games, matching
cards and writing activities.
Ask your child what happens to a word when ‘ing’ is added?
Does it change the meaning? For example – run – running.
Have a go at some fun online literacy games at home.
Topic
This
week the children will be learning all about caring for pets. We will be discussing what kind of animals
people keep for pets and which animals are not suitable to be kept at
home. They will learn about the five
freedoms that the RSPCA hope all owners will give to their pets.
The
children will also learn the difference between a carnivore, herbivore and omnivore. They will be learning to classify animals
according to their diet and using a Venn diagram to display their findings.
Interesting fact – did you know that the largest
carnivore is the brown bear.
Come and
See
The children will be continuing with the theme “Meals”. They
will be Reveal the story of Jesus’s special meal. The will discuss the story
below:
The children will discuss the following questions:
Why this was called the Last Supper?
What did Jesus do?
What did he say?
When did Jesus share this special meal?
What food and drink did Jesus and his friends share?
How do you think his friends felt?
What did Jesus ask them do?
How do the friends of Jesus do what he asked today?
During Mass who does what Jesus did at the Last Supper?
Why do you think the bell is rung?
The children will discuss our special prayer “The Our Father”
and talk about the meaning of the words in the prayer. The children will
illustrate the prayer with some pictures.
We will read the Story Gary and his family going to Communion.
We will talk about the following questions:
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Who received communion?
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Why didn’t Gary receive Holy Communion?
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Why do you think Gary is looking forward to his First Holy Communion?
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What would you like to ask children who have made their
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First Holy Communion?
We hope you have a great week!
The Key Stage 1 team.
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