Welcome to our blog. Hopefully the weather will dry up soon and spring will arrive officially!
Tatten hall meeting
The meeting will be on at 3pm on Thursday in Mrs Harding’s classroom. If you are
having difficulty attending if you send in a named pen stick I will let you
have a copy of the ppt we have.
Disco
There is a disco on Thursday starting at six until seven thirty.
The children will be dismissed a child at a child and parents are asked to not
come into the hall for safe guarding reasons. Thank you for your help in this.
Red Nose day
The children are being asked to bring in a pound for non uniform and
lose change for a throw the coin event in the hall.
Telling the time
Please can you help your child learn how to tell the time.
Especially in year two the children need to tell the time in five minute intervals. In year one the children need to know o' clock and half past.
The children need to practise skill all the time. Please stat with the quarter hours and then progress to the other times too. Thanks for any support you can give us.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=telling%20the%20time
Homework
The children have homework
again and will have a set of new spellings to learn.
The Year 2 spellings
this term are based on Year 2 National Curriculum spelling ending and the
common exception words that the Year 2 must use in their independent writing.
We have also sent a year
2 Maths booklet and we would like three pages a week completed and please can
we have this back on Mondays so the children and the teachers can mark it
together.
There will be a spelling
test every week Year 2 have been playing spell well too to help learn their
spellings.
They have got a
comprehension to do every week too as well as sentences or writing target
depending on what they have been told in their homework book. Thank you for all
your support.
Reading
The children need to
read at home at least three times a week. The children need to be heard read
even if they are a free reader please.
It really helps them if
you can talk about the book and ask them why something is happening or how
something is happening as well as about the story or information itself. We
find that the children who read at home make more progress than those who do
not.
The Year 2 have to read 90 words a minute with a familiar text.
Thank you for your
support.
RE
The children will be starting
a new topic on CHANGE.
This week the children will
be thinking about different things that change and also how they change as they grow up in appearance and what they
can do. We will be planting seeds too and watching beans as they change in
their growth.
Phonics
Please remember that the Year 1 have a phonics test in June
and any Year 2 who didn’t achieve the expected level in Year 1 will resit in at
the same time. The children have to read 32 words which include some alien
words that are made up.
Phonics
A
few helpful sites.
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html
Mrs Sarsfield
English
This week we will be writing a poem and completing a dictation based on the high frequency words and spellings we have had to learn for homework. We will also be completing a comprehension about Spring and a variety of reading and phonics activities.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
Maths
This week we will continue work on using the times sign by drawing arrays and we will be learning about position and direction using the vocabulary such as :clockwise, anti-clockwise, quarter turn, half turn, between, next to.
Year 1 pictures
The children explored different materials in Science,
Year 1/2
English.
Maths
This
week we will be finishing off our addition and subtraction work. At the end of
last week children had a go at column addition. We will briefly review this
again before moving on to column subtraction. We will be starting our maths
lessons with problem solving activities and we will engage in discussions about
these problems. We will also be looking again at telling the time and recapping
our times tables work from last week.
English
Last
week, the children enjoyed writing about an orangutan who went on an adventure,
after escaping from Chester Zoo. This week, our writing will be based on the
book ‘The Way Back Home’ by Oliver Jeffers. We will begin the week by writing
descriptions of the setting (space) and the characters. We will watch video
clips of space to help inspire our descriptions. We will also write an
alternative ending for the story, but we will be writing from the main
character’s point of view.
We
will also be completed guided reading activities and a lesson on exclamation
sentences.
Year 2 English
This week the children will be having a writing
week. They will be practising the skills by writing stories with different themes.
They will be using a writing mat to do this that was given out on parent’s
evening.
The children will be self assessing and peer assessing
too.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/writing
Year 2 Maths
This
week we will exploring measurement. The children will be weighing
themselves and other object. They will be using water to measure different amounts
of water, they will be reading thermometers and using a trundle wheel to draw a
whale on the playground.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/measures
Topic
This
week in our topic work, we will be looking at seasonal change and discussing
signs of spring. We will be thinking about how plants start to grow and we will
soon be planting our own beans/plants in school and observing them grow.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=plants
Best wishes
Mrs Harding
Mrs Sarsfield
Miss Birchall
Mrs Lockett
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