What a week we had last week! The children looked fabulous in their clown costumes and had a great time in the Circusology workshops. Are they trying to find silk handkerchiefs? I didn’t think of that idea of teaching someone how to juggle! Have a look on the school website for some photos of ‘Alex’ who came in to do the demonstrations!
We were thrilled with just how many children brought in a root vegetable model. There were some fabulous designs and ideas! A huge thank you to all parents who gave up their evenings to work with their children on these projects this week – it has made a real difference!
So, what have we got planned for this week?
Literacy
We will be continuing with our Stories with familiar settings and will be reading a text called ‘The Tiger who came to tea.’
The children need to come up with ideas of what they would do if a tiger did come to tea! What would they need to have ready for him? Would they need to change anything? Could they think of anyone else they would like to invite to tea who they wouldn’t normally expect? The children could even devise their own tea-party for an unexpected visitor...?
We will also be looking at the grammar in sentences, particularly the use of question marks. Do they know when they should see them in their reading? Do we see a full stop AND a question mark? Maybe you could discuss some questions they would like to ask the tiger when he comes to tea! Have a go at scribing some questions with your child, emphasising the use of the question mark.
The children will also be practising ‘reading-on’ in a sentence to see if they can work out the meaning of any unfamiliar words in the text. They can still use other strategies, such as using the pictures and the initial sound in the words, but this is an additional strategy to use.
By the end of the week, the children:
Must be able to use a capital letter to start a sentence and a full stop to end it.
Should be able to use capital letters and full stops in my writing and begin to use question marks.
Could be able to use capital letters, full stops and question marks in my writing and recognise exclamation marks.
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/wordTree.html type in the current HFW that your child is working by selecting the menu. The words then appear in the apples on the tree. See how many your child can read in 2 minutes. If you drag an apple onto the trunk, then it enlarges it to make it easier to read.
Other sites from last week will still help with High Frequency word spelling and recognition.
Science
We will be continuing with our topic of materials, looking at how there are many materials and that they can be named and described according to their characteristics. They will name and describe a range of common materials, identify and group materials and be able to describe different objects made of the same material. By the end of the week, they should also be able to name some naturally occurring materials.
By the end of the week, the children:
MUST be able to describe a variety of materials in terms of ‘shiny’, ‘hard’ etc.
SHOULD be able to identify objects made of the same materials
COULD be able to choose their own criteria to sort the materials and say whether they are natural or man-made
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/sorting_using_mate.shtml a great site for sorting materials into their properties
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/characteristics_materials.shtml why not have a challenge and see if you can name the materials and say whether or not they are transparent?
http://www.glassforever.co.uk/ have a go at making your very own piece of glass! This is quite a complicated site and you will probably be best working through this with your child.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=materials2d this helps your child to sort various materials according to their properties – a lovely, easy to use site!
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/scope.html I was fascinated by this site when I first looked at it! Click on the numbers on the left hand side to select the material, and then click on the magnifying glass to enlarge the image. When you had giggled at trying to guess what the material is, click on the eye...!
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=materialsHtm click and drag the labels to the correct place on the picture
Topic
In preparation for our work on the Victorians, why not have a look through some of these sites for some interesting information on the Victorians.
http://www.hyperstaffs.info/work/history/joshi/INDEX.HTM I was on this site for ages! You may need to help your child with some of the reading, but the animations are fantastic! This is great preparation for when we look at a real-life Victorian classroom!
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/victorians.html a great site for gathering information about the Victorians
Numeracy
This week, we will looking at how we can apply our number work to measuring objects.
We begin by estimating, measuring and comparing the length of different objects, using cubes first and then moving onto centimetres. Some of the children may be able to draw lines to the nearest centimetre. If you want to have a go at this at home first, remember to point out that the beginning of the ruler, isn’t where they need to start measuring – start to measure the line where the ‘0’ is.
These websites are great, but there is no substitute for using a ruler and measuring lots of objects around the house. Try encouraging your child to use the vocabulary ‘longer than’ or ‘shorter than’. Also, ask them if they can estimate whether objects are longer than a metre or shorter than a metre. Could they order them for shortest to longest?
By the end of the week, the children:
Must be able to use language of shorter than and longer than when comparing two objects
Should use and be able to read the vocabulary associated with length
Could read and begin to write the vocabulary related to length and know the relationship between kilometres and metres, metres and centimetres
These are some of the words that you child will encounter this week while investigating Length. When trying any of the next few activities, try to incorporate some of these words:
length, width, height, depth, long, short, tall, high, low, wide, narrow, deep, shallow, thick, thin, longer, shorter, taller, higher,longest, shortest, tallest, highest, further, furthest, near, close, metre (m), centimetre (cm), ruler, metre stick, tape measure
http://www.edukate.net/special_files/ruler.swf use this site to practice measuring the ‘red bar’. If you can though, measuring objects around the house is a much more practical way of measuring in centimetres.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/measures/index.htm click on Reading Length.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=ntrack ordering numbers on a number track. Can your child recognise the numbers? Are they able to order them? Can they locate the missing number?
http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/ruler/ruler_cm_easy.swf measure the length of the lines using the on screen ruler
http://www.freewebtown.com/weddell/mw/ruler/ruler_cm.swf move the ruler to the line to measure it in centimetres
http://www.counton.org/games/circus/ just as a bit of a continuation of the circus theme...choose the Pole Climber, Maths Pairs or Shapes and Numbers activities. With the Pole climber activity, start on level one and then see how high you can go – subtraction begins at Level 3!
http://www.numeracyworld.com/addition%20worksheets.html I have been really pleased with the number of children who have been printing off some of the activities from the websites on the blog, so this is should be a big help! It has lots of printable sheets for you to print off and practice at home for all areas of numeracy. Some are more difficult than others, but have a look through for the topic we are covering this week for some extra practice.
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/cobwebCreator_v3.html Just for fun! Have a go at creating your very own cobweb poem, and design you very own cobweb to write it into!
Here I Am
We conclude our topic of Homes and Families this week and finish with a class celebration of all the work done so far. The children will also make a pledge card – something special that they are going to do for their families to say thank you for being special.
Diary
On Monday, the winners and the runners up from the Root Vegetable competition should be presented with their prizes in assembly, as well as the whole school seeing our very own ‘Healthy Schools Award’ for the very first time! Also, Mrs Worrall will be attending a course, so her class will be covered by Mrs Robinson.
Last week was the first week of homework and the Year 1 children did really well with their new ‘regime’. We had lots of lovely comments saying how much the children enjoyed the activities, which is fantastic feedback for us! We are trying to develop the children’s independence and so it would be a big help if you could remind them to put their homework folder with their homework diaries on a Monday morning. Many of them have got it already – fabulous!
We finish this week, by saying thank you for the extra response we have had in the diaries this week, although we are still some way off the 100% response target. We do send letters out about events that are going on in school and post them on this blog, but the diary serves as a reminder on a day to day basis, as well as informing you of your child’s successes and targets.
Here’s to a great week!
Year 1/2 team.
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