Monday 7th September

Welcome to our second blog. The children have settled in well to their new classes and were excited to see all their friends again. They loved the classrooms, fresh paint, new furniture in all three rooms and of course the new toilets!

Induction meeting
There will be an Induction meeting in Mrs Pinto Edward’s classroom at 3.15 pm on Wednesday. A crèche will be available. This will be an opportunity to meet the new team and learn important information about the Year ahead.

English/RE
In English this week the children will be learning all about the story of creation in Genesis. They will be sequencing the story and creating a story board.

Year 2 will be creating their own story board using sentences and pictures.

Year 1 will be creating their story boards with the help of some pictures and others with the help of some writing too.

The children will also be reviewing the school's mission statement:

'To love and serve as Jesus shows us'

The children will also be thinking about all the new beginnings in school and in their life.
The children will be thinking and making up a set of class rules too.

Assessments
There will be on going assessments this week on tricky words and  high frequency words and phonics. Each child will be assessed to find out where they are up to so we can move them on.

Maths

Year 1
Year 1 will be learning about and reviewing the days of the week and the months of the year. They will be sequencing the days and months of the year. They will be saying what the next day is and the next month is. They will be chanting the days of the week and the months of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86kYp9hpab0

Year 2
Year 2 will review the days of the week and their sequence and spelling. The children will also be learning about hours in a day. The children will chant the months of the year and will know the month before and after a month. They will be unscrambling the names of the months and finding out the missing month in a sequence. The children will also review the seasons of the year too.

http://roythezebra.com/reading-games/high-frequency-words-months.html

Topic

Health and Growth
The children will be starting their new topic for this half term. This week the children will be thinking about how they have changed and how babies change and grow up. The children will be learning about life cycles of a human.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=64  

Have a good week everyone.

The 1 / 2 team