Monday 26th September

Welcome to our blog.

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.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Languages day
On Monday we celebrate International languages day. The children will be learning different ways of saying hello and good bye. The children will be learning days of the week and colours in Spanish.

Homework

Homework was sent out last Thursday and we please ask you to return it on a Monday. We will be testing the children on their weekly spellings on a Friday. In year 2 the children should have received their login details for my maths and there are some activities set for them to complete over the rest of this term. Thank you for your support on this.

RE Families

The children will be listening to stories for the Bible and learning about how families care for one another. They will be finding out how Jesus was cared for. They will be writing a prayer. They will be making a collage of birds, trees and animals and recognising how much God loves them.

 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

English Blog for Year 1/2

Grammar and Punctuation

The children will be working on the following questions during their lessons:

·        What are punctuation marks?

·         Why are they important?
·         What punctuation marks do you know?
The main focus this week will be question marks and how we use them. The children will be learning about whether a sentence should use a question mark or a full stop.

Writing Focus

The children will recap the story “The tiger who came to tea” and recap the key questions about the book from their book review.
Where is the story set?
Who are the main characters?
What happened at the beginning, middle and end?

The children will be looking at how we can extend a sentence using an adjective. The children will be recounting the story and using language such as stripy, enormous, kind and thirsty.

Spelling Test

The children will have their weekly spelling test on Friday.

Maths 1 /2
The children will be completing a cold task before the learning. The children will be asked to write numbers in numerals and words. Throughout the week the children will be practising their numbers up to 100. They need to learn how to spell them too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dJWfQHF8Y

Mrs Sarsfield
English
This week we will be learning to recite the alphabet and form the letters correctly both in lower case and in capitals. We will also be using the book 'Mr Grumpy's Outing' to stimulate reading and writing activities, and will continue to learn to read and spell high frequency words.

Maths
We will be counting in 10's and 2's and will start to learn the pairs of numbers that make a 5 and a 6 using practical equipment and recording using the + and = signs.
Year 2 English
This week we will be settling into a routine of grammar, handwriting and writing again.
We will be learning about the past and present tense and we will be writing sentences of our own showing our learning.  We will also be using the Ginger bread man 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.youtube.com/watch?v=slidHnMR1yE

Year 2 Maths
The children will be continuing writing numbers in words and we will be starting a new topic of ordering lengths, mass and recording results using the greater than and less than signs and using the equals sign too.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/equal-less-greater.html

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.

This week we will the answering the question 'How can we travel in to space?'. We will be looking at rockets and labelling the features of rockets such as the nose which is pointed to help the rocket push through the Earth's atmosphere.

We will be coming up with design ideas for our rockets and will start to make rockets from the kitchen roll tubes.

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/

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=rockts+in+space&view=detail&mid=64E1D9F0F008EB66BF3664E1D9F0F008EB66BF36&FORM=VIRE
Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Higgins
Mrs Lockett