The children have settled
back into the routine of school this week. They had a wonderful time at the
pantomime and enjoyed the entertainment thoroughly.
Information
A letter will go out on Monday about the trip to the Bridgewater
Hall to see a performance of the Halle Orchestra. Please could you check your
child’s bag for it. Thank you.
Maths
The
first ten minutes of each numeracy lesson, is dedicated to practising mental strategies,
which will enable the children to rapidly recall key number facts. This week,
we will be focussing on:
- recognising
the value of the digits in two digit numbers
- this is important, particularly as the children need to understand which
number represents the 'tens' when finding ten more and ten less.
- recalling
one more and one less than a two digit number
- the children were fantastic at finding one more than number, but found
it difficult to calculate one less.
- doubling
multiples of 5 and 10 up to 50 - ask the children
if they can remember to double the tens and double the units?
- be
able to write the numbers to 100
- recognise
the names of 2D shapes
During
the main part of the lesson, we will be looking at ordinal numbers. Although
this sounds very grand, it is being able to say which is first, second,
third...and so on. Why not try having a race and awarding badges or medals to
the people who came 1st, 2nd etc.
The
children will also learn about numbers which are greater than and less than. Do
they know that the crocodile really doesn't like BIG NUMBERS and so he EATS
them!!
45 <
54
Imagine
teeth drawn on the <>
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ChineseNewYear/ZodiacStory.aspx this is the story of how the Chinese Zodiac was created It will also be
a fun way for the children to learn about ordinal numbers.
http://www.ictgames.com/rabbit2.html why not write some of these numbers on paper and ask your child to draw
the 'crocodile'.
http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/awards/awardc.html there are some difficult numbers on this, including decimals, but the
children will be able to access the DIVING AWARDS MEDALS - which country wins
the GOLD?
http://www.ictgames.com/dragonmap.html odd and even revision from last week
http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/stick/stick.html virtual counting stick
http://www.ictgames.com/newduckshoot10s.html counting in tens - shoot the duck on the target number
http://www.ictgames.com/spitfireufo.html although this is aimed from year 2, the children in Year 1 could also
access it by counting on in steps of that number.
http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/bugs/bugrace3.html a great game for two players. Choose 0 as the lowest number and 9 as
the highest, it will create a game to practice and reinforce those number
bonds.
English
We are starting
our new topic this week ‘Carnival of Animals!’ We are linking this with
traditional tales and looking at a fantastic book by Micheal Morpurgo ‘Wombat
Goes Walkabout’. This story is based on animals in Australia and we will be
comparing this traditional tale with English traditional tales such as Three
Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, Billy Goats Gruff etc. The children will
get to re-tell the story, have conversations with each other as animals and
write their own conversations, focusing on how to use speech marks.
Ask your child
what they know about Australia? Which animals live there?
Have a go at some
fun online literacy games at home.
Topic
This
week we will start our new topic for this half-term called Carnival of the
Animals.
It
is a really interesting topic that covers a wide range of subjects including
music, geography, science, history and art.
So your children will hopefully be coming home with lots of interesting
facts to tell you!
This
week we are studying a beautiful musical piece called the Carnival of the
Animals by a French composer and pianist called Saint-Saen. You can listen to this piece of music by
clicking on:
Each of the music's 14 movements represents a
different animal, including a lion, donkey, and elephant, as well as fossils,
an aquarium, an aviary and a swan.
The
children will also be discovering the animals of the African Savannah, watching
fantastic video clips of them in their natural habitat as well as creating fact
files on their favourite animal.
Interesting
fact – did you know that Zebras stand up while sleeping!!
Come and
See
We will be continuing our topic on Special People.
Some activities we will be doing in school:-
·
Bring
in photographs of special people in their families and talk about the pictures.
·
Bring
in stories of people who help us.
·
Invite
a special school person to talk about how they help in school.
·
Paint
a picture of different people who help us and include some captions about each
person.
·
Role-play
some special people like doctors, priests, policemen and women, friends,
grandmas, teachers etc.
·
Think
of all the words which express the special things people offer us: e.g. care,
time, love, friendship. Make a list of special people with the reasons why they
are special and how they help us.
We hope you have a great week!
The Key Stage 1 team.
