Monday 2nd November

Welcome to our second half term. This will be a very busy period for us all. This week we will start to learn the Christmas play songs and we will also be auditioning and allocating parts for the play.

We will start homework again next week and new activities on my Maths will start again too.

Phonics

Years 1 and 2 will be concentrating on ou, ay, ie, ai.
Year two will be continuing with phase five phonemes. We will be concentrating on split digraphs.
o –e, e – e, i – e,

 http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/Phase5Menu.htm

English

Year 1 and 2
 – The Gunpowder Plot and Firework Poetry
The children will start the beginning of the week writing about their half term holiday. We will be suing key questions:

What did you do?

Where did you go?
What did you see?
Who did you go with?
What happened?
Did you enjoy yourself?
Who did you meet?
The children will be learning about the Gunpowder plot. They will be sequencing the story and talking about the events that happened.
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/guy/history.htm

Towards the end of the week the children will be reciting the poem below and generating ideas to write their own poetry.

One huge firework
Looking rather dull and blue.
Then it went WHOOSH
And how the sparks flew!
Red and green and gold stars
Falling through the sky.
Ending with a great big bang
And then a little ss-sigh.
https://www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com/poem/fireworks
 
https://www.makewav.es/story/306063/title/myfireworkpoem

English Year 1

In English this week the children will be learning to add es and s to plurals. They will also be completing some writing about Autumn.

Maths Year 1

The children will be focusing on money, the value of coins, shopping and working out change. The children will also be counting in 2ps, 5ps and 10ps.

http://www.ictgames.com/moneyPage.htm

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/money

Maths Year 2

This week we will be concentrating on number and the age related objectives and non negotiables.

We will be adding and subtracting 10, 20 and 30 from any 2 digit number.

We will be adding and subtracting 9 with any two digit number.

We will also be practising telling the time very week.
We have been practising
·         clock
·         Half past
·         Quarter to
·         Quarter past

 http://www.wmnet.org.uk/files/clock.swf

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm

 

Maths

Mrs Pinto/Mrs Sheerin
The children will be naming and describe squares, rectangles, circles and triangles.

Their main focus will be describing and recognising regular and irregular common 2D shapes. The will start to Make and describe polygons.

Some useful websites are listed below:

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Infant_activities/daysofweek1.htm

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/seasons.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enDRrWyXaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzIbbvoiMA

http://www.ictgames.com/Y1shape.html

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/memory.html

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_114_g_2_t_3.html

http://www.coppschool.lancsngfl.ac.uk/Classwork/Classwork/flashaids/sorting_2d_shapes.swf

http://mathematics.hellam.net/maths2000/shapes.swf

http://www.interactivestuff.org/match/maker.phtml?featured=1&id=31

https://hwb.wales.gov.uk/cms/hwbcontent/Shared%20Documents/vtc/ngfl/maths/greg_morgan_symmetry/index.htm

http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year3/symmetry/shape_game.asp

Topic

This week we will be looking at the four seasons in a year; which months (and birthdays) fall into which season and what we typically associate with each season.  For example: Easter, daffodils, sunshine, snow, lambs, fireworks, falling leaves and so on.

We will create a tally chart of the class’ birthday months and a living pictogram so the children can physically get involved with understanding months and seasons.

Independently the children will then create a birthday pictogram on paper using the tally chart to help them.

In keeping with the ‘seasons’ theme as we near the end of autumn we will also be looking into how animals survive the winter.  More specifically the children will learn about adaptation, hibernation and migration.

Interesting fact – did you know that the word migration comes from the Latin migratus that means “to change” and refers to how birds change their geographic locations seasonally.

 

Have a great first week back everyone,

The 1 / 2 team.