Welcome
to the blog. The children participated and led in an excellent collective
worship with Bishop Tom who visited our school last week.
On
Tuesday morning just before playtime we will be walking up to church to spend
some time finding out about what books there are there. We will need lots of
people to walk up with us. The children will need a waterproof coat and they
will need a snack that they can eat on the way.
Homework was sent out again last week.
This week we will continue to learn the TWO, FIVE AND TEN times table. The children are getting
used to being tested on their tables each week.
My Maths
is on line too in Year 2
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This
week we will be continuing our topic on books. We
will learn how special books are and the types of books we have at church.
We
are visiting church on Tuesday to find out more about books at church. We will be making our own prayers thanking God
for books.
Year 1 and 2 will
be continuing with phase five and learning phonemes with alternative sounds.
This week we are
concentrating on ou and ea.
Maths
Year 2
The
children will be working on place value and have to recognise how many tens
there are, how many hundreds there are, how many ones there are.
The
children will be ordering numbers with two and three digits.
We
will also be reading and writing numbers up to one hundred. This is why
learning how to spell the numbers is really important.
Year 2 English
This week we will be learning about silent letters in words and
the use of the homophones there/they’re and their. We will also be reading Charlotte’s web. We will be doing some extended writing
on the start of the book and what has happened to Wilbur the pig so far.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english/en01soun/game/en01soun-game-silent-invaders/silent_invaders.swf
We will be using phase six phonics too while reviewing phase
five phonemes all the time.
We will be starting to
assess the children this week on phonics and book bands.
Year 1 / 2
English
We will be continuing to
focus on the skills based around grammar, nouns phases reading comprehension
and extending the children’s writing. Our Grammar focus will be focusing on
recognising adjectives in a sentence?
We will be talking about
the steps to success.
Steps to success
- Read
the sentence – what is being described? This is the noun.
- How is the noun being described? This is the adjective.
- Capital letters.
- Full
stops.
We will
also be playing a game called “Noun Adjectives”. The children will have a set
of cut up nouns and adjectives. The children will work in group to find the
noun and in their group the next person will decide whether their adjective
fits the noun.
Once
each group have decided on their adjective and noun groups. We will work
together to look at word order and vote on which they think sounds the best.
The
children will be working on the fabulous book “Stick Man.” We will be looking
at the main events in the book.
Hot Seat with questions
for the Stick an”
During Hot seating- The
children will take on the role of “Stick Man” and talk about the adventure they
have been on, what happened first, what happened next, what happened last?
The children are going to
role play the story and we will come together and use puppets to talk the story
out. We will use a small world background and the children can follow the story
through to the end.
The
children writing task is that they are going to write a postcard from Stick Man
to his Stick Lady and children telling them all about his adventure.
We have
placed a sticker in the diaries to ask the children to bring in postcards from
home so that we can look at main features of a postcard.
We will be starting to
assess the children this week on phonics and book bands.
Maths
We will be introducing the division sign this week.
Children will work practically
with equipment sharing objects one to one.
Use multilink.
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Discuss
how adding the ones first gives the same answer as adding the tens first.
Refine over time to adding the ones digits first consistently.
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Demonstrate
using blocks to show this with other examples.
We will explain about the division
sign. We will continue to talk about vocabulary linked to division.
Year 1
This week the children
will be practising again their number bonds to ten and 20. The children will be
reading numbers and writing them down.
English
This week in English
we are still focusing on verbs and nouns. We will also be continuing to read contracted words with an apostrophe, by searching for
them in our reading and library books. We will be improving our spelling
of high frequency words by playing games and using improvement time to practise
individual spellings. We will be starting to assess the children this week on
phonics and book bands.
Topic
Every day
materials
During
Spring term 1 the children in year 1 and 2 will be learning about ‘Everyday
Materials’. This topic lends itself to a
lot of work in science where children will learn about everyday
materials including wood, plastic, metal, water and rock.
This week
the children will perform simple tests to find out which material would be
suitable to make and umbrella from. The
will use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions about
different materials. The children will record their prediction, what they did
and their results.
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I can divide by
grouping things.
I know what
divide means.
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I can divide by
grouping things.
I know what
divide means.
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