Monday 8th May

Welcome to a new week. Homework was sent out again last week and we need it back in on Monday so it can be marked and given back by Thursday. Year 2 have my Maths exercises too.

Sats

We sent a sample Math’s sat home last week and we would appreciate you going through the paper and help your child practise anything that they got wrong. We will be practising more this week too.

https://www.mymaths.co.uk/

 

We had great week last week. Some children learnt about Lowry and Year 2 learnt a poem called the jumblies. They made up actions to remember the poem and drew pictures. The children even went outside to draw right angles.

 

RE

We will be continuing with a new topic in RE called SPREAD THE WORD.

The children will be listening to the story of Pentecost and learning about the gift of the Holy Spirit. We will be taking a walk around school and noting signs of new life. The children will also be learning about the Ascension into heaven.

We will be learning some hymns about the holy spirit such as colours of day.

Maths Year 2

This week we will be having a problem solving week. We will be solving problems linked to addition, subtraction, division and multiplication.

http://resources.woodlands-

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

We will be completing a mental maths tests too.

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

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

English
This week we will be basing all our work around the book DEAR GREENPEACE. We will be thinking about facts about whales. We will be learning again about contractions and apostrophes and then writing letters at the end of the week with our writing partners.

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
English Year 1/2

In Grammar this week the children will be learning about what a compound sentence is.  This builds on our work completed last week, which was about conjunctions. In a compound sentence, two independent clauses (sentences) can be joined by a comma and a conjunction. Each clause has a subject and a verb.

When you are writing, it would be strange to only use short, simple sentences.

‘I do not like eating meat.’ is a simple sentence.

‘I love vegetables.’ is also a simple sentence.

By putting the two sentences together and joining them with a conjunction, we can make a much more interesting compound sentence:

 ‘I do not like eating meat but I love vegetables.’

 http://www.theschoolrun.com/what-are-simple-compound-and-complex-sentences-0

 

We will talk about a new topic - Explanation Texts.

Discuss what the children think an explanation text might be.  Using my own explanation text we will look at features of an explanation text (title- it should include how or why, Intro paragraph, information that has steps and time connectives, pictures to help the reader, conclusion- what happens as a result of this?) 

Before we talk about what our explanation will be about, we will show this video.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi0sv3P68PMAhWcHsAKHek6AB8QFggiMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.studyladder.com%2Fgames%2Factivity%2Fhow-do-bees-make-honey-explanation-6142&usg=AFQjCNH1vX_QrK3ib7GJtb4tm6L4udbNYA&sig2=vG3Zb9Px4MlO6zgtxQR5Cw

Watch a short video clip on how bees make honey:

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiI2_zK7MPMAhUqBsAKHeOhDRkQtwIIUTAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F39248822&usg=AFQjCNHi51CmjU3b9MEbQG6kE63VsdZhCQ&sig2=5h5r8EAMl

We will be talking about the success criteria of explanation text:

Success Criteria

I used the present tense.

I used a heading in a large, clear font.

My main text is written in the order that things happen.

I used illustrations and diagrams with labels and captions.

I used arrows to show the order things happen.

I used subheadings to give extra information.

I used sentences beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.

Maths Year 1/2

This week we will be reviewing topics that we have noticed the children need reinforcement with. 

We will be learning more about right angles, multiplication using repeated addition and fractions of shapes and numbers.

 We will be completing a mental maths test.

The children will be tested on their 10 times tables.  Please make sure that your child has instant recall of these timetables.

Mrs Sarsfield

Year 1
English
This week we will be learning off by heart the nonsense poem The Owl and The Pussycat by Edward Lear. We will be acting it out in drama and studying the rhyming words and re-writing our own version. We will also be focusing on the suffix ing and the use of the punctuation mark ! We will also continue improving our reading skills by giving likes and dislikes about the book and by completing a comprehension text. Phonics will include reading a variety of real and nonsense words containing phase 3 and 5 phonemes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVU_6GLZ-5Q

Maths
In maths this week we will be focusing on quick recall of addition and subtraction facts - doubles, adding on ten, counting backwards from 100 plus, adding and taking away units. We will also try solving real life word problems including money. We will continue to learn to tell the time and think about times of the day when we complete certain tasks.

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

 Topic

We will continue our new Topic on Habitats.  This topic lends itself to lots of work in science.  This week the children will learn what a habitat is and to be able to name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats.  We will answer the following questions key questions:

What is a habitat?
What does the habitat provide for the animals and plants? What is a micro-habitat?

 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.