Tuesday 29th March

Welcome to our blog,

We hope you enjoyed the Easter weekend. We had a lot of things happening last week from egg rolling, Easter bonnets and much, much more.

 

Year 2

Will be having a very short week this week. The children will have a great time and we have seven staff going on the trip. We thank all the staff who are willing to leave their own families to take the children away.

Arrangements for Tatten hall.

 

Clothing
Please do not send anything new or expensive. It will get torn and it will get dirty.

Indoor clothing

A change of footwear is essential slippers or pumps. No outdoor shoes are allowed in the centre.

Outside wear

Lots of old clothes such as joggers/jumpers/sweatshirts, track suits, t shirts. No jeans as they are not good if they get wet.

Two old pair of trainers or shoes.
We will be out waking so shoes need to waterproof and comfortable.
Plenty of socks and underwear.

Other items

Pyjamas, hair brush, towel, aterproofcoat/anorack etc.

Toothpaste etc.

Camera if they know how to use a disposable one.

Teddybear.

They may take three pounds to buy small items form the shop.

All clothing needs to be named. In the unlikely event it is sunny the children may bring suncream to apply to themselves but obviously scarves, hats and gloves may be more appropriate!!

Clear plastic bag for dirty clothes – names.

 Maths Year 2

We will be learning that multiplication can be done in either way but division cannot.

Example

3 x 10 =30

10 x 3 =30

30÷10 = 3

 On Friday we will be completing a timetables test as usual and also a mental maths test.

Most children are tested on x 2 , x 5, x10. Some children are moving onto mixed division and multiplication too.

English

The children will be practising their writing and writing a story using a picture as a stimulus. On Friday the children will be writing about their experiences at Tattenhall.

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

 http://www.magickeys.com/books/phonics.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

 http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/eeAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/aiAltSpellings.html

 http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PlanetaryPlurals.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html

The children are busy learning the Years 1 and 2 exception words and these are being tested for reading and spelling. We are playing a spell well game to learn them all too. Ask your child to explain the game spell well.

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 will be reviewing number work again this week.  The children will learn that it doesn’t matter which way the numbers go in addition sentences as you get the same answer.  However, in subtraction sentences it does matter which way the numbers go because you get a different answer.  For example: 

23 + 12 = 35

12 + 23 = 35

 29 – 7 = 22

7 – 29 = -22 (The children will not be taught how to do negative number subtraction; they will be shown this and given the opportunity to explore this learning).

 English

The children will complete a reading comprehension on Tuesday.

Year 1

Year 1 will be working on superheros this week. Mrs Sarsfield and other staff will be teaching Year 1 all week when the year 2 are away.

There will be a variety of activities linked to superheros, designing costumes, writing about their own super hero, artwork and some directional work using the beebot.

 Topic

 This week we will be exploring how the Romans changed Britain by learning about Roman Baths. We will watch a video and power point and complete a short piece of writing about visiting the baths and meeting friends.

 

Have a good week everyone.