Welcome to the last week of this half
term. We can’t believe how quickly it has gone.
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Parent/Teacher consultations (10.02.15,11.02.15)
You should have received your time slot allocation for your
parent/teacher consultations next week. Please remember that appointments are
for ten minutes. Should you feel that additional time is needed, please don’t
hesitate to make an additional appointment with your child’s teacher. We look
forward to meeting you.
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Contacting School
We would like to take this opportunity to remind parents that it is
important that you contact school as soon as possible if you know that your
child is going to be off for any reason. It is also important that we are
able to contact you if your child is ill or been involved in an accident, so
if you change your telephone number or address, please remember to let us
know straight away. Many thanks.
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Safer Internet Day 2015 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 10th
February with the slogan ‘Let’s create a better internet together’.
Globally, Safer Internet Day
is celebrated in over a hundred countries, coordinated by the joint
Insafe/INHOPE network, with the support of the European Commission, and 31
national Safer Internet Centres across Europe.
The day offers the opportunity
to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in
helping to create a better and safer online community. It calls upon young
people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies,
policymakers, and wider, to join together in helping to create a better
internet. Ultimately, a better internet is up to us!
Maths
This week
in Maths we will be describe position: above, below, beside, left, right.
The Year 1
children need to know direction and movement: forwards, backwards, up, down,
left, right.
The Year 2
children will need to know that a right angle is a measure of a quarter turn;
recognise right angles. They also need to be able to recognise clockwise and
anticlockwise turns.
Some
websites to help with this are:-
http://www.rainforestmaths.com/ a favourite of mine! Click on level B or C and then any of the number activities
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/units120.html how many questions can you answer in 2 minutes?
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/numberskills.html click on any of the timed activities to help with number bonds knowledge.
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit%20the%20button%20v9.swf select the number bonds activity and then make 10 or 20. How many can you get right before the clock runs out?
http://nwlg.org/pages/resources/ma_num/swf/make10.html make 10
http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum20.html make 20 - the dance will really make you giggle!
http://www.ictgames.com/brilliant_beadstring.html move the beadstring to make patterns to 10 and 20
http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html match the pipes to make the number bonds to 10
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/numberbond.html make up your own number bond games
http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/colquiz.html for each question you get right, it colours in a part of the picture!
http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/bugs/bugrace3.html
a great game for two players. Choose 0 as the lowest number and 9 as the
highest, it will create a game to practice and reinforce those number bonds.
English
Our traditional tale this week is Jack and the Beanstalk. The children will be looking at the
characters and describing them using lots of adjectives. They will also be
writing a letter from the Giant to Jack. We will be reading an alternative
story called Real Jack. In this
story, Jack is the ‘bad’ character and the children will compare the two
stories looking at similarities and differences. By the end of the week the
children will be creating their own version of Jack and the Beanstalk, changing
characters and the setting. This will capture the children’s imagination and
enable them to be really creative.
Our grammar focus this week is proper adjectives and
connectives.
Can your child describe a character in their reading book?
Have a go at some fun online literacy games at home.
Topic
This week we will be asking the children
if they know what a fossil is. Do they know anything about how a fossil is
created?
Explain that we are going to be
learning about how fossils are created
Watch videos on fossil formation
at:
We hope you have a great week!
The Key Stage 1 team.
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