Weekly Update Tuesday 14th April

Welcome back after the Easter Holidays. We hope everyone had a wonderful time.

Here is what we are doing this week:

Literacy:

This week the children will be writing a recount about their Easter holidays. The following day the children will look at their writing and highlight all the connectives, adjectives and punctuation. They will then be able to see which sentences need improving. The children will get some improvement time and add to certain sentences to improve them. We will also be completing our weekly grammar activities and reading comprehensions.  

Ask your child what they have enjoyed doing over the Easter holidays. Can they describe a day in detail using adjectives? 

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

Maths:

This week we will be identifying and describing 3D shapes. We will be going on a shape hunt around the classroom to see which shapes we can find. We will be looking to find cubes, cuboids, cylinders, cones, spheres, pyramids, and prisms. Children can also bring into school 3d shapes they have identified at home, to see if the other children can guess what shape it is!

have a go at these activities:

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3usa/flash/index.html?goLesson=14
http://primarygamesarena.com/Shapes-and-Colors-Activity3004
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/3d/index.htm
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shape.htm


Topic

Welcome back to the new term.  We hope that you had a wonderful Easter break!
This week we will be looking at the season of Spring and learning lots about the Sun.  The children will learn about how the Earth orbits the Sun and how seasons are created.  Interesting facts will be learnt during the lessons giving the children a greater understanding and interest in space and, in particular, the Sun.
We will be reading poetry about and creating our own metaphors to describe the Sun.  For example: The Sun is a yellow balloon, The Sun is a fiery ball in the sky and so on.
The children will discuss what Spring means to them and what environmental changes occur during this season.  Artwork will be created for our new Spring display.
Interesting fact – did you know that the reason there is more daylight during the spring is the earth’s axis tilts toward the sun at this time of year.

We will also be continuing daily phonic activities- see previous blog entries for websites.

Have a great week
Year 1/2 Team