Monday 11th January 2016

Welcome to the second week back. The children had a great start to the New Year and have worked really hard. The children enjoyed the Pantomime and their behaviour was excellent.

Homework was sent out last week.

We have included some Maths homework on 3D shape and the children need to find objects around the house that have the same 3D shapes.

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This week we will be continuing our topic on books. The children will be thinking about different books at home and at school. The children will be looking at a Bible and learning about how the Bible is organised.

Phonics

Year 1 and 2 will be continuing with phase five and learning phonemes with alternative sounds.
This week we are concentrating on I, OW, Y AND O.

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

 

Maths Year 2

This week we will be finishing FRACTIONS.

The children will be reviewing what we have done and will be finding fractions of numbers.

Such as 1 / 3 of 18 etc.

We will be practising subtraction too and will be using number lines and counting on.

http://www.freewebs.com/weddell/fractions%20of%20shapes.swf

  

We will also be practising telling the time every week.

We have been practising

·         clock

·         Half past

·         Quarter to

·         Quarter past

·         Five minute intervals too.

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

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

Year 2 English

This week we will be concentrating on grammar and handwriting.

We will be learning about verbs and adding ed as a suffix to make the past tense. We will be practising our joined up style of handwriting.

We will also writing about Buckingham palace. We will be learning and reviewing extended noun phrases too.

Example: the tall, green tree….

The wide, gushing sea…..

 We will be using phase six phonics too while reviewing phase five phonemes all the time.

 

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Verb+Rap&view=detail&&mid=80B6FE28F792EDBFDFC480B6FE28F792EDBFDFC4

 

Year 1 / 2

English

We will be starting to focus on the skills based around grammar, nouns phases reading comprehension and extending the children’s writing.

We will be focusing on past and present tense. Can the children use the correct tense in a spoken and then a written sentence?

Here is a list of present and past tense that you can focus on at home:

                  

I  walk      .                            I walk _ ed _ .

 

 I  talk.                                  I talk _  _ .

 

I  jump.                                 I  jump _ _ .

 

I  play.                                   I  play _ _ .

 

I  stay.                                   I stay _ _ .

  

 I  climb.                               I  climb _ _ .

 

 I  ski.                                    I  ski _ _ .

 

 I  bowl.                                I  bowl _ _ .

 

  I  bat.                                  I batt  _ _ .

 

  I  kick.                                I  kick _ _ .

There is a web site game that the children can go on to develop their knowledge of past and present tense:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/games/blast_the_rocket/small_no_sound/standard2.shtml

In English the children will also be reviewing syllables.

Maths

We will be working on Fractions. The children will be learning about being able to recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4 of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity  write simple fractions e.g. 1/2 of 6 = 3 and recognise the equivalence of 2/4 and 1/2.

The website below are finding fractions of a shape.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=fractions+of+shapes+song&view=detail&mid=F1CAF72518F8455CC96DF1CAF72518F8455CC96D&FORM=VIRE3

http://www.freewebs.com/weddell/fractions%20of%20shapes.swf

 

Maths Year 1

In Maths we will be focusing on counting in 2's, the 2 x table and improving our knowledge of numbers up to 100.

Year 1 English

 This week in English, we are focusing on Winter, writing poems from brainstorming interesting vocabulary. we will also be listening to lots of books about Winter and writing our own short story about Winter. 

 

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.

 Children will learn to identify and name everyday materials and will have the opportunity to explore the properties of these materials. They will also carry out a simple investigation to help them decide which material would be most suitable to use for an umbrella. At the end of the topic children apply their knowledge of everyday materials to sort objects by their properties.

 

A range of learning activities are used in this unit including, discussions, labelling and matching activities, games, and an investigation to encourage where children have the opportunity to ask and find the answers to questions.

To start this topic the children will identify and name a variety of everyday materials by matching a material to its name.

Interesting fact – did you know that at room temperature, mercury is the only metal that is in liquid form?

 

 
Have a good week every one.
The 1 / 2 team.