Monday 19th September

Welcome to our blog.

Thank you to everyone who came to the Induction meeting last Tuesday. We hope you found it informative. This week the children will be really settled into school life again.

Reading

Please can you make sure that your child is heard read at least three times a week and please put a comment in their diary. Reading is the key to everything at school. We can’t promise to respond everyday but we will throughout the week. Thank you for your support.

RE Families

We will be thinking about how families love and care for us. The children will be designing a family activity that shows caring and love in a family. The children will learn about God’s love in the Bible. The children will be learning what a psalm is and will be making up a class psalm. The children will be making a brick house for a display to show how a family loves and cares for each other.

Phonics

A few helpful sites.
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

Mrs Sarsfield

English
This week we will be continuing to improve the reading and writing of high frequency words through a variety of games and activities. We will also be reading the book 'Whatever Next', which links with our topic Journeys. We will be writing simple sentences about baby bear, using correct spellings of the high frequency words, and we will be writing a postcard home from the moon by baby bear.

Maths
We will continue learning to count and write with the correct formation, the numbers 0-100, both forwards and backwards. We will also begin to learn to count in 10's and 2's, focusing on using practical equipment to count with. We will start to write number sequences in 10's and 2's.

English Mrs Pinto/Miss Birchall
This week the children will be practising their handwriting and will be learning all about the tiger who came to tea. The children will be completing lots of work around this book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqifY7ium4Q

English
Mrs Harding
This week we will be settling into a routine of grammar, handwriting and writing.
We will be learning about the past tense and will be looking at funny bones to help us too. We will also be using the Three Billy Goats Gruff for talk for writing  and for a final piece of writing at the end of the week. The children will be drawing out the story and will be talking to a partner retelling the sequence of the story.

 https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Three+billy+goats+gruff&view=detail&mid=B8A627D4B9DFD56C3158B8A627D4B9DFD56C3158&FORM=VIRE

 Year 2 Maths
The children will be continuing with counting in 2, 3 5, and 10 forwards and backwards. The children will be using number sequences.

Topic
During our topic lessons this week we will be looking at the different reasons why people travel into space.  Space travel allows scientists to understand what it is like in space. Probes are often sent into space to take pictures of the planets, in particular Mars, so that scientists can see what the surface of the planet is like. We will be looking at the different planets and thinking about what we would see if we went to space.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/science-environment-34985274

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zctgq6f

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/space_missions

http://www.spacekids.co.uk/learn/

Best wishes
Mrs Harding
Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Higgins
Mrs Lockett