Monday 7th February

Welcome to our blog. The children were great at church last week and learnt more about all the books that can be found at church.

Homework was sent out again last week. This week we will continue to learn the TWO, FIVE AND TEN times table. The children are getting used to being tested on their tables each week.

 My Maths is on line too in Year 2

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We will be completing the topic on books. We will be using the Bibles to read about stories about Jesus’s life. We will be starting our new topic. Mrs Sarsfield’s class have their class assembly on Thursday.

Phonics

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

This week we are concentrating on ou and ea.

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

 

Maths Year 2

The children will be reviewing concepts this week such as greater than and less than, adding and subtracting 8 and 9, number bonds to 100 and adding using column addition.

We have continuing with a weekly mental maths test. The children have 10 seconds to answer each question. They are trying very hard and we have been pleased with the effort the children are putting in.

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.

Year 2 English

 This week we will be completing more extended writing linked to Charlotte’s web. We will be writing a set of instructions for a spider killing a fly.

We will be learning about apostrophes for possession and plurals with y.

Spy – spies

Puppy – puppies
Fairy - fairies
Cry- cries
Fly- flies

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

 

We will be starting to assess the children this week on phonics and book bands.

Year 1 / 2

English

Assessment - We will be assessing the children on the compound words and the exception words to Year 1 and 2.

We will be continuing to focus on the skills based around grammar, nouns phases reading comprehension and extending the children’s writing. Our Grammar focus will be focusing on recognising adjectives in a sentence?

We will be talking about the steps to success.

Steps to success

1. Read the sentence – what is being described? This is the noun.
2. How is the noun being described?  This is the adjective.
3. Capital letters.

 The children will be continuing to work on the fabulous book “Stick Man.” We will be looking at the main events in the book.

The children are going to continue to role play the story and we will come together and use puppets to talk the story out. We will recap the small world background. The children[s writing task is that they are going to write a recount of the story using expanding noun phrases.

 Thank you for all of the postcards that have been sent in. We have put them on the learning wall for the children reference. 

Maths 

Assessment – the children will be reviewing concepts already covered this year to see how much the children have retained.

The children recapped multiplication during the week. We will be introducing division this week

We will be introducing the division sign this week.

 Children will work practically with equipment sharing objects one to one.

Use multilink.

 

Demonstrate using blocks to show this with other examples.

 

We will explain about the division sign. We will continue to talk about vocabulary linked to division.

Year 1

A lot of the time the children will be practising their assembly for Thursday morning.

English

This week the children are reviewing verbs and writing poems.

Maths
This week the children are learning about full and half turns and halving numbers. The children will also be learning about completing missing number problems.

Topic

Every day materials

During Spring term 1 the children in year 1 and 2 will be learning about ‘Everyday Materials’.  This topic lends itself to a lot of work in science where children will learn about everyday materials including wood, plastic, metal, water and rock.

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.