Monday 25th April

Welcome to a new week. Homework was sent out last week and we need it back in on Monday so it can be marked and given back by Thursday. Year 2 have my Maths exercises too.

 We learnt about measuring liquids last week.

We drew a 30 metre whale.

 Year 1 made a bridge from newspaper rods.

https://www.mymaths.co.uk/

RE

We will be continuing with a new topic in RE called SPREAD THE WORD. We will be thinking about all sorts of messages and how messages are sent received. We will be listening and responding to a story and thinking about how messages can be changed and playing Chinese whispers.

The children will be listening to the story of Pentecost and learning about the gift of the Holy spirit.

 
Maths Year 2
We will be concentrating on number work again. We will be practising counting in tens, 3’s and 5’s from all different numbers.
We will be practising adding and subtracting using columns. We will be exchanging tens and carrying too.

http://resources.woodlands-

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/twenty120.html

We will be completing a mental maths test too.

 
We will be testing the children on their x 2, x 3  x5, x10 tables. Some children are completing a tests with both multiplication and division on them too.

Please make sure that your child has instant recall of these timetables.

English
Then we are concentrating our work around sharks.

We will be doing a cold task and writing down anything we know about sharks.

Throughout the week we will learn more and be talking a lot about key facts and information.

Finally we will be writing a report about sharks.

Our writing must have these things included in it and the children will have a check list too.

Past tense

Exclamation marks
Questions
Exception words
Ness, ful, less, ly words
Because, if, when, if, that
Noun phrases
Contractions too

The children will be completing a comprehension too.

We are busy testing the exception words all the time.

http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-5089-new-common-exception-words-years-1-and-2-word-mat

Phonics

Year 1 and 2 will be continuing with phase five and learning phonemes with alternative sounds. Year 2 will be working through phase six.

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

http://www.magickeys.com/books/phonics.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/eeAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/aiAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PlanetaryPlurals.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html

The children are busy learning the Years 1 and 2 exception words all the time and these are being tested for reading and spelling constantly. We are playing a spell well game to learn them all too. Ask your child to explain the game spell well.

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

 

Maths
Year 1/2 Maths 
Maths
This week we will be reviewing and exploring the topic of measurement.  The children will be weighing various items in grams and kilograms, using thermometers and reading scales.  They will also be learning about litres and millilitres and how to choose the correct unit of measurement for length.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=136iVEwxBCM

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures/measure.html#Measure           

They will also be tested on the 5 times tables.  Please continue to work with your child in learning the 5 times tables. Thank you.

English

In grammar this week the children will be learning about the suffixes 'less' and 'ful'.  Their meaning and how they can change a verb or a noun to an adjective.

 The children will also have a reading comprehension this week.

The children watched a power point about the Queen last week and started to learn facts about the Queen and the Royal family.
The children will look at the key features of a non-chronological report and start to make notes of facts about the Queen.

Discuss Key Features:

Does the topic title cover the whole subject?

• Does you have a brief introduction paragraph about the subject?
• Is your information organised into categories?
• Is there bullet points or facts boxes included in your work?
• Is there factual language and description?
• Are you using any technical language in your writing?
• Can you add extra information in your writing to support your main points?

If you have any information books at home about the Queen that you would like to share please bring them into school so that the children can develop their learning further. Thank youhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/elizabeth_ii/.

Mrs Sarsfield

Year 1
In Maths we will be focusing on multiplication and division by using arrays of objects - a practical way of showing multiplication and division. We will be relating this practical format to the use of the multiplication and division signs.
We will also be revising adding and taking away tens, telling the time, and doubling numbers.

In English we will be recording how we built our gateway bridges, made last Friday. We will also be revising the adding of ing and ed onto the end of verbs in the past tense, based on our writing from last week which showed we need to review this objective. We will then be writing an autobiography about L S Lowry which links with the topic - Victorian streets.

This week in Topic we will be focusing on streets in the industrial Victorian era. We will study the work of L S Lowry in order to guide our understanding and will be drawing streets in the style of Lowry. We will also be finding out about his life and writing an autobiography on L S Lowry.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Art.html#L S Lowry

Have a good week,

The 1 / 2 team.

I can divide by  grouping things. I know what  divide means.

I can divide by  grouping things. I know what  divide means.