Monday 3rd October

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. Thank you for your support.

Year 2 had a great time acting out the story of the ginger bread man last week. They played snap too to help them learn their numbers in digits and words.

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.  All year two children have my maths homework. Thank you for your support on this.

RE Families

The children will be finding out how Jesus was cared for by his family. They will be writing a prayer thanking God for all the wonderful things in our world. They will be making a collage of birds, trees and animals and recognising how much God loves them. We will be finishing this topic this week.

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

The children will be using their senses to gather information about autumn time. They will be going for a walk around school and looking for signs of autumn.
The two poems the children will be focusing on are below:
Autumn       
Red and orange leaves                        
Little leaves red and orange
Crunching leaves                                      
Little leaves fall to the ground
Cold wind blowing                                    
Little leaves crunch and rustle
Autumn is all around                         
Little leaves in Autumn       
In pairs the children are going to draft their first copy of their Little leaves Poem.
White on Whiteboards

Little Leaves

Little leaves red and orange
Little leaves fall to the ground
Little leaves crunch and rustle
Little leaves in Autumn
To do at home:
Can they see any signs of autumn when walking to school?
What can they hear?
What can they see?
What can they smell?
What can they touch?
Websites to look at:
http://www.poetry4kids.com/
http://www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com/
http://storyit.com/Classics/JustPoems/
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/fall/fallpoetry.htm

 Spelling Test

The children will have their weekly spelling test on Friday.

Maths 1 /2

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

Mrs Sarsfield
English
This week we are continuing to learn to write the alphabet in capital letters, to support the use of capital letters to start sentences and foe names. We will be reading the book 'Going on a bear hunt' and writing simple sentences using high frequency words correctly. We will also continue learning to read and write more high frequency words to improve our reading and writing.

Maths

In Maths we will continue to learn to count in 10's and begin counting in 2's. We will also focus on positional words such as : over, under, next to, besides, in front, linking this with the book 'Going on a bear hunt'.

Year 2 English
This week we will be learning  grammar, handwriting and writing again.
We will be learning and practising how to write noun phrases in sentences.
The white, giant snowman…..
The bright, shimmering sun…..
The small, black ant….
The tall, ugly giant….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slidHnMR1yE

Year 2 Maths
This week we will be practising our number work.
The children will be practising adding and subtracting to 20 and learning facts up to 100.
5+4+6=
70+20=
7+2=

 Topic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zy89wmn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zj3ygk7

This week in our topic work, we will be looking at The Moon. We will be researching into what the moon looks like and how the moon is the only thing in space in which people have travelled to and landed on!
We will be thinking about if we were to go to the moon, what would we take with us?
We will also continue to design and make our rockets!

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