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Welcome to another busy
week. The children have been very busy
this week with their final rehearsals of the Christmas play “The Very Hopeless
Camel”. They are really enjoying the songs and you might know most of the tunes
yourself by now! The children are excited about performing their play to everybody
and we hope that you all join in with the singing.
If there are any
costumes that have not been handed in yet please have them in on Monday morning
at the very latest as we have our dress rehearsal in front of the school and
local nurseries on Monday afternoon.
This week we will be
revisiting the concepts taught over this half term ready for assessment week
next week.
Maths
Next week the children will be having a numeracy
test which will test all of the areas covered so far in this half term so this
week we will be have a revision week to revisit some of the topics that we have
covered so far this term.
·
Use
every day language to describe 2D and 3D shapes – what the shape are called and
how many sides and corners shapes have.
·
Odds
and evens – can they identify odds and evens numbers up to 100.
·
Counting
reliably up to 30 and above.
·
Reading
and writing numbers up to 100.
·
Understanding
the operation of + and – and use related vocabulary.
·
To
know pairs to 10 and build up to pairs to 100.
·
To
recognise coins and their values – to be able to add up amounts and find
totals.
·
To
read the time to the hour/half hour on an analogue clock.
·
Start
to recognise multiples of 2,5 and 10.
English
In English this week we are reading ‘The Nativity Story.’ The
children will learn about the birth of Jesus and the true meaning of Christmas.
We will sequence the story and be writing about the main events. The children
will also be making their own nativity scene and retelling the story in small
groups using their drama skills. This is a lovely time of year and the children
will enjoy learning all about this special time.
Talk to your child about the nativity story and encourage them
to think of the order of the story. What were the main events of the story?
Have a go at some fun online literacy games.
Topic
This week the children
will learn about home life during WW1.
We will be looking at photography in detail and discussing what we can
see, how the mothers may be feeling, what the children may be doing and what
kind of jobs needed to be done around the house. The children will use their observation
skills to make inferences about the past.
We will also discover the
differences between the rich and the poor families during WW1 and how
significantly their lives differed.
Interesting
fact – did you know that before WW1 began, women often worked as servants and
cleaners. Once a woman married she was expected to give up work and to become a
housewife. Her role was to look after the children and to cook and clean the
family home. However, as men left to fight in the war, women had to take on
jobs outside the home. Many women went to work in munitions factories making
explosive 'shells' for big guns. Others went to work on farms in the
countryside as Land Girls or in hospitals as nurses. As the war went on, women
took on more and more men's jobs.
Come and
See
This week we begin our final
topic of 2014 with the subject of Waiting. This topic covers the theme of
Advent and what we need to do to prepare for the coming of Jesus on Christmas
Day.
Thank you for your continued support- and have a great week!
The Key Stage 1 team.
