Weekly Update 16th March

Information

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  25^th 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:

·         Organising and interpreting information in a simple table

·         Sorting, organising and interpreting information in a block graph

·         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.

 Literacy

This week the children will be learning about contractions and which two words make up one contraction. The children will then be looking at sentences with missing punctuation and need to recognise the mistakes and correct them.

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.

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

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.

 

R.E - Come and See
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 :)