Monday 18th April

Welcome back we hope that you had a good break. It is so nice seeing the sun shining and long may it continue! Yippee

 

Here are a few photos from the last week.

 

RE

We will be starting a new topic in RE called SPREAD THE WORD. We will be thinking about all sorts of messages and how messages are sent received. We will be listening and responding to a story and thinking about how messages can be changed and playing Chinese whispers.

Year 2

Maths Year 2
We will be reviewing and exploring the topic of measurement.
We will be weighing things in grams and kilogrammes.
We will be using thermometers and reading scales, we will be learning about litres and millitres.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=136iVEwxBCM

We will be choosing the correct unit of measure for length. We will be writing a story about animals to start with.

We will be testing the children on their x 2, x 3  x5, x10 tables. Some children are completing a tests with both multiplication and division on them too.

Please make sure that your child has instant recall of these timetables.

English

Then we are concentrating our work around the story Noah’s ark.
We will be listening to the story with actions and we will be learning the story off by heart. We will be sequencing it and drawing the story in pictures to help us learn the story.

We will be learning the song too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuQjR2lsYl0&nohtml5=False

Our writing must have these things included in it and the children will have a check list too.

Past tense

Exclamation marks
Questions
Exception words
Ness, ful, less, ly words
Because, if, when, if, that
Noun phrases
Contractions too

At the end of the week we will be writing the story again about Noah’s ark using the words:

Fortunately….

Unfortunately…….
The children will be completing a comprehension too.
We are busy testing the exception words all the time.

http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-5089-new-common-exception-words-years-1-and-2-word-mat

 

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 all the time and these are being tested for reading and spelling constantly. 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
Year 1/2 Maths 
This week the children will revisit partitioning, inverse operations and number bonds to the nearest multiple of 10.

They will also be tested on the 5 times tables.  Please continue to work with your child in learning the 5 times tables. Thank you.

Partitioning

This is splitting a number up into hundreds, tens and ones.  For example:

34 = 30 + 4

79 = 70 + 9

121 = 100 + 20 + 1

236 = 200 + 30 + 6

 

Inverse operations

Understanding inverse operations can help children make sure they have answered a question correctly.  For example:

20 + 6 = 26

26 – 6 = 20

26 – 20 = 6

 

Number bonds
It is vital that children are able to instantly recall their number bonds. We are now learning number bonds to the nearest multiple of 10.  For example:

The number bond for 34 to 40 is 6.

Please work with your child in securing this knowledge.

English

The children will be continuing with these particular focus targets:

Can I talk about my favourite words and phrases in stories and poems?

Can I answer and ask questions?
Can I make predictions based on what I have read?

We will be focusing on the book "Aliens love underpants" and the children will investigate the story pattern in the story and use story language with their verbal retelling of the story.

The children will be introduced the suggested actions for first, next, after that, later on, and finally. (Pie Corbett training from the inset day)

Talk for writing IMITATION – knowing the text well.  We will read the text again adding the suggested actions for first, next, after that, later on, and finally. Can the children join in with the actions?

After this week can your child describe some of the actions for first, next, after that, later on, and finally?

 Phonics

 The children are going to recap the alternative sounds ie, ch and c. Can they tell the alternative pronunciation for the words:

Christmas, chemist, chord, chorus, Chris, chronic, chemical, headache, technical,

field, shield, chief, brief, priest ,yield, shriek, thief, relief,

cell, central, acid, cycle, icy, cent, Cynthia, success, December, accent

Mrs Sarsfield

Year 1
English

This week we will be writing a diary about our holiday, and completing a comprehension. We will also be exploring the use of the exclamation mark compared with the question mark, as well as improving reading and phonics skills.

 
Maths
This week we will be focusing on adding 10 onto a number under 100. We will also be using a number line to add and subtract, and will be drawing our own number lines to solve problems. We will be reviewing doubling and halving numbers.

Topic

This week we are focusing on medieval castles. We will be finding out about why and where castles were built, the features of castles and will be finding out about the nearest castles to Warrington.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/castles/defence.htm

Have a good week,

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.