Monday 14th November

Welcome to our blog.

The children will be busy this week practising the Christmas play and they have been really good learning their lines to the play.

The children received homework and have a new sheet of spellings to learn.

There will be a spelling test every week. Year 2 have my Maths too on line.

RE Families

The children will be continuing with the topic BELONGING. They will reviewing Baptism and will be designing a Baptismal candle. The children will be learning the our Father song with actions. We will be writing a prayer about all the babies that are welcomed into God’s family at Baptism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1DPhFKNKtY

 

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 learning how to work out how may syllables there are in a word by clapping and saying the word slowly like a robot. This will then be used to break unknown words down when reading and to improve the spelling of long words. We will also be improving handwriting and the reading and writing of high frequency words.

 

Maths
This week we will be focusing on naming the common 2D shapes and some 3D shapes and learning about their basic features. We will be reviewing the writing of numbers both forwards and backwards 0 to 100. We will also be reviewing counting in 5's up to 100.

Year 1 / 2

Maths
Year 2 will be able learning to recall and use multiplication facts for the 2, 5 and 10 time tables. The children will use these facts to solve problems. We will also be looking at odd and even numbers.

Year 1 will be learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. We will also start to look at writing numbers to 100 in numerals and words.

English.

This week we will be recapping our work on verbs and Year 1 children will continue to write sentences using verbs such as ‘I can jump very high’. The children will also be identifying verbs in sentences and pieces of text. Year 2 will be looking at different tenses of verbs and how we can use adverbs to modify and describe the verbs.

We will also be completing a reading comprehension based on Remembrance Day, which also ties in to this half terms topic work.

Year 2 English
This week the children will be learning about nouns. They will be going on a noun hunt and writing sentences and identifying the nouns.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar

Also this week the children will complete a comprehension and practise their handwriting.

We will be learning about the story of the hare and the tortoise and will be doing lots of talk for writing activities. We will be using puppets and acting it out. Finally on Friday the children will be completing a warm task on this and writing the story.

Year 2 Maths
This week we will be moving onto data handling and will be reading and drawing pictographs and bar graphs. The children will be collecting data in tallies and representing it on different graphs.

Every week we will be testing the children’s timetables and completing a mental Maths test too.

We are starting off learning the x 2 and x 5 timetables. The children will complete a 100 questions.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=pictograms

Topic

This week we will learning all about antibullying. The children will be finding out what bullying is, what to do and how to react to bullies. You may find that he children talk about bullies a lot this week.

http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/anti-bullying-week/

 

We will be reading stories and role play different scenarios so the children have a clear understanding of what to do if they are being bullied.

Best wishes

Mrs Harding
Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Lockett