Monday 9th November

Welcome to our blog. We have sent out play parts and costume letters. The children have made a great start learning their parts and learning the songs. I am sure you will hear them singing the songs around the house from now on. We will be spending a lot of time practising as well as teaching.

Friday - Children in need.
The children can wear something yellow and bring in some change to put on the outline of a Pudsey bear.

Phonics

Years 1 and 2 will be concentrating on oy, ir, ue, aw.

Year two will be reviewing some of the phase three phonemes that the children did not know when tested these are ow, ar, ai and ur.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

English

Year 1 and 2

The children will be completing work about remembrance Sunday. The children will be learning about different wars. They will be making a poppy and also will be learning the poem ‘Flanders field. ‘

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm

Maths Year 1

In Maths this week we will be continuing with learning about money: recognising the coins, knowing the value of 2p, 5p, and 10p coins, using coins to make values, adding coins to shop and find totals.

 

http://www.ictgames.com/moneyPage.htm

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/money

English Year 1

This week in English we will be designing a Remembrance day poster, after learning some facts about Remembrance day and the British Legion Poppy Appeal. We will be continuing with our focus on adding s and es onto nouns to create plurals, and also on alphabetical order - with lower and uppercase letters.

 

Maths Year 2

This week we will be concentrating on direction, position, turns and right angles.

http://nrich.maths.org/content/id/5560/Turn%20Man.swf

 

We will be reviewing clockwise and anticlockwise.  We will also be learning about units of measure and the need for units of measure. We will also be measuring in centimetres.

We will be adding and subtracting 9 with any two digit number.

We will also be practising telling the time very week.
We have been practising

·         clock

·         Half past

·         Quarter to

·         Quarter past

·         Five minute intervals too.

 

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/files/clock.swf

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/measures.htm

Maths

Mrs Pinto/Mrs Sheerin

The children will be naming and describe squares, rectangles, circles and triangles.

Their main focus will be describing and recognising regular and irregular common 2D shapes. The will start to Make and describe polygons.

Some useful websites are listed below:

 

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Infant_activities/daysofweek1.htm

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/seasons.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enDRrWyXaw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzIbbvoiMA

http://www.ictgames.com/Y1shape.html

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

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_114_g_2_t_3.html

http://www.coppschool.lancsngfl.ac.uk/Classwork/Classwork/flashaids/sorting_2d_shapes.swf

http://mathematics.hellam.net/maths2000/shapes.swf

http://www.interactivestuff.org/match/maker.phtml?featured=1&id=31

https://hwb.wales.gov.uk/cms/hwbcontent/Shared%20Documents/vtc/ngfl/maths/greg_morgan_symmetry/index.htm

http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year3/symmetry/shape_game.asp

Topic

Being British

This week we are starting our new topic ‘Being British’. We will be focusing on developing geographical skills by naming the countries that make up Britain, and their capitals, and finding out where Warrington is. We will also be naming the waters around the British Isles and using google maps.

 

Have a good week everyone

The 1 / 2 team