Monday 21st November

Welcome to our blog.

The children will be practising a lot this week and will be putting the final touches to the Christmas play.

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

There will be a spelling test every week. They have got a comprehension to do every week too as well as sentences or writing target depending on what they have been told in their homework book 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. The children will be thinking about how they will treat new people to the school/class. The children will be thinking about the deeper meaning of belonging to God’s family through the sacrament of 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 continue learning about writing questions and using a question mark. We will also be introducing the use of an apostrophe in contracted words, used in place of missing letters, such as don't, she'd. We will also be writing a diary of our weekend.

Maths

This week we will be learning the names and features of 3d shapes and introducing place value in number. We will be using a variety of practical equipment to demonstrate the amount of tens and ones in a number and will begin written tasks.

Year 1/2 Maths

Fractions Year 1
Can the children recognise, find and name one half as one of two equal parts and a quarter as one of four equal parts of an object shape or quantity?

Year 2

Can the children recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, 1/4, 2/4, 1/2, 3/4 of a shape, length, set of objects or a quantity?

We will be starting to look at 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 of a shape. Can the children find anything at home that they can halve or quarter?  Maybe a piece of bread, pizza or biscuit.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/fractions-and-decimals

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/fractions/fracTut1.swf

Year 2 English

This week we will be doing a few lessons on winter poetry inbetween the Christmas play.

The children will be thinking about winter vocabulary and will be having a winter walk around school weather permitting.

The children will be analysing different poems and will be writing poems of their own such as:

Snow is……
Snow is cold, icy and hard as it flows from the icy, blue sky.
Snow is white, freezing and bleak as it falls from the white, soft sky.
Snow is gentle, light and hard as it flows from the bright, snowy sky.
Snow is a gentle hand floating down from the shimmering, white sky.
Snow is…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xH1eY5IVI

Year 2 Maths
The children will be continuing with multiplication and division. The children will learn how to divide using a number line. The children will be solving divison and multiplication questions that have been mixed up too.

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

Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Lockett