Monday 18th January

Welcome to the blog.

Homework was sent out again last week. This week we will continue to learn the two times table but will now be moving onto the five times tables too by the end of the week.

My Maths is on line to in Year 2

 

Please remember that reading is essential at home and at school. We are monitoring the children's diaries and we are encouraging the children to read at home at least three times a week.

 

Last week in Mrs Sarfields's class 56% of the class were heard read. 

Last week in Mrs Harding's class 46% of the class were heard read.

Last week in Mrs Sheerins/Pinto Edwards's class 60% of the class were heard read.

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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. We will be learning about the Gospels and listening and reading to a Bible story about Jesus. We will watch a video clip of a Gospel reading.

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
We will be practising subtraction with a umber line. We will be moving onto multiplication. We will be using arrays and repeated addition to explore multiplication. We will be reviewing vocabulary linked to multiplication such as: lots of, multiplied,   product, as much by etc.

http://nrich.maths.org/8773

 

https://uk.pinterest.com/explore/repeated-addition/

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 learning about adding ing and ed to verbs. We will also be starting to read Charlotte’s web. We will be doing some extended writing on the start of the book and what the farm looks like. We will be also be concentrating on time phrase this week in our writing and sentences.

For example:

Before, afterwards two days later, suddenly, at the last stroke of midnight, immediately….

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 continuing to focus on the skills based around grammar, nouns phases reading comprehension and extending the children’s writing. Our Grammar focus will be using adjectives, adverbs and connectives to extend sentences.

We will be looking at singular and plural words.

Discussion at home:

Talk to the children about the general rule:-s is simply added to the base word. The suffix -es is used after words

ending in s(s), ch, sh and z(z), and when y is replaced by i.

Give children examples of these rules – cats, hospitals, bushes, catches, babies

We are reviewing time phrases.

Can the children make up a sentence using these phrases?

 

What do we mean by time phrases?
Suddenly
Afterwards
Three hours later
As the last star faded in the sky
At the last stroke of midnight
As the stars disappeared.
Finally
Earlier
Early one morning

We will be reading the story “Owl Babies” and talking about how we can improve the story by adding these time phrases.
 

Maths

We will be continuing to work 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 repeated addition, counting in 10’s, review number bonds to 10 and to use these to record addition and subtraction facts. We will also be working with number bonds to 20 and also use these to record addition and subtraction facts.

 

Year 1 English
This week in English, we are focusing verbs or actions words. We will be introducing the apostrophe to shorten words such as can’t, I’ve, can’t, she’s etc.

 

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/verb/balloon_game/

 

We will also be writing a short story.

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.

This week the children will be learning how to describe physical properties of a variety for everyday materials by looking at and touching them and using scientific vocabulary.

They will be introduced to new words such as: opaque, transparent, absorbent and non-absorbent.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLVUI7Jx0jc

Have a good week everyone,

The 1 / 2 team.