Monday 21st September

Welcome to this week’s blog.

Homework

Last week the children received their sentences homework and spellings homework. They will have been asked to choose five or three of their spellings to write a sentence. They should now have their my Maths login details.

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The children will be thinking about the start of the day and our morning prayer. They will be singing morning has broken and also be reading a psalm.

We praise you God

Each day the sun rises high in the sky to give us light and warmth.

Words are not needed to tell us how wonderful you are:

the silent message reaches everyone, everywhere

We are full of joy as each new day begins.

 

Maths Year 2

Year 2 will reviewing different numbers bonds.

What numbers make 8?

What number make 10?

What numbers make 6?

 The children will be moving onto number bonds and 20 and 100.

Also the children will be starting to do a timetables test on a Friday. We will start with the 2, 3 and 5 timetables.

http://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_10.html

Maths Year 1

The children will be concentrating on their number bonds to 10.

http://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_10.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkW1Y11tGxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDC9YzWYkU

English

The children will continue  to read traditional tales. The children will be reading Dogger and whatever next. They will be thinking about the characters, plot and setting. The children will be concentrating on capital letters and full stops. They will be using different connectives to write sentences. The children will be planning and starting to write their own story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD3DURks15E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFMWecQ9nGk

Phonics

This week we will revisiting and reviewing graphemes z, zz, qu and ch. We will be also be reviewing phonemes and digraphs. Ask your child what a digraph is! The children will be singing an alphabet song.
http://www.ictgames.com/phonemePopLS_v2.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFMWecQ9nGk

Topic

Moving on from the life cycle of a frog, this week the children will be studying the life cycle of a butterfly!  Introducing the topic through The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle the children be fascinated by the unique metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a beautiful butterfly.

Discussion will include where we can find butterfly eggs, caterpillars and cocoons.  The topic lends itself to some mathematics where symmetry will be discussed by looking at the patterns on butterflies wings.

The children will learn key scientific vocabulary and be able to talk about what happens in each stage of a butterflies’ development.

Interesting fact – did you know that butterflies can live in the adult stage from anywhere between a week and a year, depending on the species.

http://www.kidsbutterfly.org/life-cycle

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Spring/FrogLifeCycle.aspx?age=ks2

Have a great week everyone

The 1 / 2 team.