Monday 15th May

Welcome to our blog.

We hope you are enjoying the beautiful weather. We expect rain this week so our gardens will be better.

SATS

The year two will be completing their sats this week:

Arithmetic paper

Reasoning paper

Reading paper one

Reading paper 2

I am sure they will do very well as they have been working so very hard.

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We are continuing with  HOLIDAYS AND HOLY DAYS.

We will be finishing off the topic this week.

We will be creating newspaper article about what happened at Pentecost. The children will also be writing about what they would tell others about Jesus.

Homework

Normal spellings and sentences were sent home his week.

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/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

Year 1
English

This week most of  our English will be linked to the story 'jack and the Beanstalk'. We will be exploring and using adjectives describing Jack and the Giant and writing a character description based on the things they do in the story and what they look like. We will also be writing a diary as Jack, on the first day he climbs the beanstalk, and re-writing the story in the correct chronological order. Phonics and reading activities will also take place.

Maths

Most of the Maths this week will also be linked with the same story: using beans to work out the capacity of 4 containers, measuring and cutting beanstalks to a certain length, using 3d shapes to build the giant's castle, and adding totals in multiples of 10p to buy fruit for the characters. We will also be reviewing counting in 2's, 10's and 5's.

Year 1/2

Maths

This week in our maths lessons, we will be looking at word problems and reasoning problems. Year 1 children will be focusing on addition and subtraction problems, whereas Year 2 will be working on all four operations; addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Towards the end of the week Year 2 will be looking and revising how to estimate answers to calculations and Year 1 children will be looking at how to add multiples of 10 and near 10 (9 and 11) to a two-digit number e.g. 63 + 9 =

English

This week we will be spending the week looking at a poem written by Edward Lear, called The Jumblies. We will be learning to recite the first verse of this poem, with the help of a story map. We will also be using our imagination to create drawings of a ‘Jumblie’ and writing a character description. We will move on to planning and writing our own, alternative verse of this poem. Year 2 children will also be introduced to similes to make our descriptions much more interesting e.g. The Jumblies have hands that are as blue as the deep blue sea. They have heads that are as green as the leaves on the trees.

Year 2

English

The children will be learning to rehearse and recite two poems by Edward Lear. They will be using the owl and the pussy cat and the Jumblies. The children will be learning about what they are about, writing out their stories and also will be writing another verse to the owl and the pussy cat.

Maths

We will be having a word problem week. This week we will be solving word problems with all four rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

The children will have to:

Read the question

Find the maths

Calculate the Maths.

Check the question.

The children will also be practising adding 9, 19 and other numbers with 9 in the ones.

Science

The children will be reviewing healthy eating and creating a healthy plate of food that is good for them.

The children will also be finding out about evaporation. The children will understand what evaporation is by watching a hair dryer dry up water. They will be wondering where all the puddles go?

Geography

This week in our geography lessons, we will be looking at Scotland and learning to recognise Scotland as one of the four countries of the UK. We will be finding out about the myth of the Loch Ness monster and writing a newspaper report about a sighting!

Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield
Miss Birchall
Mrs Pinto Edwards