Weekly update17th November 2014

Information

Welcome to another busy week. The children have been very busy over the past week with their first rehearsals of the Christmas play “A Very Hopeless Camel”. They are really enjoying the songs and you might find that they will be coming out of school singing them!

Thank you to parents who attended the first of our Parent/Teacher consultation meetings last week. We hope you found them useful and informative.

Maths

This week in Maths we will be learning about money. We will begin by checking that the children can recognise all the coins in circulation from a 1p coin up to a £2 coin. Next we will move on to making set amounts of money using the coins before checking how much change we will get when paying with a particular coin.

 

The Year 1 children will recognise coins of different values; order coins according to their value; exchange coins for 10p and 1p coins and find totals of sets of coins.

 

The Year 2 children will find totals of sets of coins: relate to adding three or more numbers and pay an exact sum using smaller coins up to £2.

 

Some websites to help:-

 

 http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/moneynew.html

 

 http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/maths/counting_with_money/index.htm

 

 http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/853/Postsortingv3.swf

 

 http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/movecoins.swf

 

 http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/coincards.swf

 

 http://www.ictgames.com/moneysplat.html

 

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/dynamo/den/snap/index.htm

 

 http://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/91/fewest_coins#

 

http://www.ictgames.com/moneypayer.html

 

 http://www.ictgames.com/moneypayer50p.html

 

English

This week we will be continuing to look at non-fiction books and focusing on researching a chosen animal in order to design and write their own mini non-fiction book or report. They will also look at instructions, both written and verbal, and the use of imperative verbs (bossy words) and then write a list of instructions for another child on how to look after a chosen pet.

Have a go at some fun online literacy games.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html

 

Topic

This week the children will learn about The Christmas Truce.  They will be asked to think about reaching out to others across divides and how both the British and German soldiers would have felt during the festive period.

We will read a true story and also listen to a story written by Michael Morpurgo (The Best Christmas Present in the World). This is a beautiful story, which the children will enjoy:

https://soundcloud.com/harpercollinschildrens/michael-morpurgo-the-best-christmas-present-in-the-world-full

The children will be tasked to draw a picture of The Christmas Truce and write adjectives to describe how the soldiers must have felt during this festive period whilst mixing with the ‘enemy’.

Interesting fact – did you know that In 1914, during the Christmas truce, the words of Silent Night resounded throughout the battlefield, as English and German soldiers sang together.

 

 

 

Come and See

Belonging

This week sees the completion of this topic as we look back over what we have learned about belonging to God’s family through Baptism.

 

Thank you for your continued support- and have a great week!

The Key Stage 1 team.