Monday 22nd February

Welcome to our blog,

We have a busy week ahead with parent’s evenings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night therefore homework will not be sent out this week.

Mrs Sarsfield’s assembly was excellent and the children were extremely confident delivering their assembly.

 

 

 

 

 

The children did lots of experiments testing materials for absorbency and seeing if they were waterproof.

 

RE

We will be starting our new topic of thanks giving and we will be thinking of all different things that we say thank you for. We will be thinking about different ways we can say thank you at home, in school and in the neighbourhood.
 

Phonics

Year 1 and 2 will be continuing with phase five and learning phonemes with alternative sounds. Year 2 will be working through phase six.

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

 

Maths Year 2

The children will be working with MONEY. The children will be recognising coins, adding and subtracting money and also learning how to give change too.

 http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/money

 

Please keep practising the 2’s 5’s and 10 times tables. This week we will be testing the ALL THE TIMESTABLES we have covered so far again.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

 

Year 2 English

This week we will be completing more extended writing linked to Charlotte’s web. We will be writing about what has happened in the book so far.

We will be learning about compound words, plurals with words ending in f and adding ly words to make adverbs such as fiercely, calmly, magically etc.

We will be changing words into plurals with f.

Elf

Loaf
Shelf

We will be learning about apostrophes for possession and plurals

We will also be learning about compound words such as;
Earthworm
Beehive
Goldfish.
We will also be completing a comprehension too.

We will be using phase six phonics too while reviewing phase five phonemes all the time.

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Verb+Rap&view=detail&&mid=80B6FE28F792EDBFDFC480B6FE28F792EDBFDFC4

Year 1 / 2

Maths
We are still working on the 2 times tables with the children.  They will have a 2 times table test on Monday.

This week the children will be introduced to division and all the vocabulary associated with this operation (such as: share, group, divide, divide by, share equally, sets of).  The children will learn about the division sign and what it means.  Initially the children will learn to divide by grouping into numbers and they will then progress on to division by repeated subtraction.   The children will also look into division with remainders.

 http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/multiplication-and-division

English

In 'Grammar' this week the children will be learning about adverbs and how they make sentences more interesting. It will be expected that children can recognise adverbs in sentences and use them in their own sentences. The children will also have a reading comprehension on Tuesday.

For the next couple of weeks we will be reading The Gingerbread Man and doing lots of lovely work based on this story.  This book lends itself to lots of work in Geography too so the children will be looking at our local area using Google Earth and maps.  They will use their imagination to decide where the Gingerbread Man could be chased to in our local area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3cKQbFeaLY

Using photography of the local area and the maps the children will plan a route that their Gingerbread Man will escape to.  During the next couple of weeks the children will learn about North, East, South and West and learn to use a compass.

Year 1

Maths
In Maths we will be using a number line to complete additions and subtractions to 20 and beyond. We will also be solving missing number problems. Also we will be reviewing time: o'clock and 1/2 past, and drawing the hands on clocks. The recognition of coins and notes will also be reviewed.

English

In English we will be reading and writing words with the suffixes: es, s ed and ing. We will also be checking our knowledge of the alphabet in lower case and in capital letters. We will be re-writing the story 'Stick Man' by Julia Donaldson, and writing a postcard from stick man home to his long lost family. Also we will continue learning to read and spell all the high frequency words.

Topic

Every day materials
This week the children will perform simple tests to find out which material would be suitable to make and umbrella from.  The will use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions about different materials. The children will record their prediction, what they did and their results.

They will be introduced to new words such as: predict, record and results.

Also this week the children will compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple physical properties by sorting objects.  The children will present their work in Venn diagrams.

They will be introduced to new words such as: sort, group and compare.
http://topicbox.net/science/materials_properties/

Have a good week everyone,

The 1 / 2 team.

I can divide by  grouping things. I know what  divide means.

I can divide by  grouping things. I know what  divide means.