Monday 16th January

Welcome to our blog.

Homework
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 now and were given their passwords out again..

Cinema night

There is a cinema night on Tuesday and the children need o buy a ticket beforehand. Please make sure that children are picked up by five o clock. Thank you.

RE SPECIAL PEOPLE

The children will be thinking about special people in their lives and special people in our community. We will also be thinking about special people who spread God’s word.

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 will be reading the story of the Snow Dragon and will be exploring adjectives to describe the dragon. We will be re-writing the story in 3 parts :a beginning, a middle, an end. We will also be completing a comprehension focusing on retrieving facts and predicting. Improving reading, phonics and handwriting will be a focus as well.
Maths
This week we will be concentrating on money: learning the value of all the coins, making given amounts in several ways, and completing shopping activities and challenges.

Year 1 and 2

English
This week we will be looking at adding extra information to our sentences, using conjunctions ‘because’, ‘that’, ‘if’ and ‘when’. We will start by looking at clauses and examples of these conjunctions being used. 

Y1 children will recap last week’s learning, using ‘and’ to join two sentences together, before moving on to using ‘because’.

Children will also complete a reading comprehension.

Maths
This week we will be recapping our work from last week on multiplication, before moving on to division. We will be looking at division by sharing and grouping. 

We will have a go, as a class, at completing word problems for both multiplication and division. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=13 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/division/play/

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 learning all about bees and will be writing a report about them. We will  be reviewing exclamation marks and completing a comprehension too.


Year 2 Maths
The children will be continuing with fractions and moving onto subtraction using a number line. We will be finding out how to find out fractions of numbers and counting up to ten in fractions such as 1 /4, 2 / 4, 3 /4, 1 etc.


My Maths homework is on line and the passwords have been given out again last week.

We will also be practising our timetables and completing a mental Maths test.

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

Topic

We will be continuing our topic ‘Carnival of the Animals’. Last week we listened to the music carefully and discussed the different animals that are represented throughout the music. 
This week we will be focusing on African animals. We will be looking at the African savannah and finding out about the animals that live there. We will then go on to produce a silhouette picture of the African Savannah.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBGEf4urGNo

Best wishes

Mrs Harding
Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Pinto Edwards
Miss Birchall
Mrs Lockett