Reading
Many, many thanks for those of you are who supporting your child at home in all areas, but particularly in reading. We conducted a survey this week, to see how close we were to our reading target of 100% of children reading at home in each week, and the results are....
Mrs Malone’s class – 70%
Mrs Pinto-Edwards’ class – 73%
Mrs Worrall’s class – 73%
This is fantastic, so let’s see which class can reach their 100% target first! In order to help us do that, your child will probably come home and ask you to write a comment in their diary at least once during the week. If you look back through the pages, there will be a sheet of targets that your child is currently working on, depending upon their reading level. It may be helpful for you to refer to these, to help you evaluate how your child is doing. It has also been really encouraging for us to hear how children are spotting their spelling patterns when out shopping! Keep up the good work!
Why not make up a story with your child this week? You can download some scenery, puppets and a list of things you will need from http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/jackanory/make/puppettheatre.shtml?page1
If you do make some, we would love you to bring them in for us to see!
Homework
As you are aware, homework re-commenced last week for all children. Most homework is returned on time, on Monday mornings, but there are a few that don’t make it in on time. It would be really helpful, if you could ensure your child hands in their homework along with their diaries on MONDAY MORNING, so that it may be marked, ready to return to you on Tuesdays.
Also, we have been using the traffic light system on our Numeracy homework for some time now. This helps us to evaluate the effectiveness and suitability of the weekly homework for each individual child. We would ask that this is completed as honestly as possible. If your child found it easy, then they will be moved on more quickly. If they found it difficult, and they coloured in the GREEN traffic light, then they may not revisit the work in class for a couple of weeks, to clear up misunderstandings. If you would like to make a comment in addition to the traffic lights, then we would be delighted to read them. Many thanks for your support with this.
This week...
Literacy
We move onto our third week in our block on Traditional tales, completing our reading, before we move onto the exciting week of becoming authors next week.
This week, we will be looking at the SETTING of stories – where do they take place? This is a great opportunity for the children to develop their artistic skills, as well as their ability to develop their work on adjectives from last week. They will be painting a picture with words!
We will start the week by watching a video of the opening of Cinderella and then comparing it with the start of the written story of the same story. But there will be a problem! The DVD only works for the start of the story and then the screen goes blank! The children will have to come to the rescue and write the rest of the story themselves – they will become the Writers for a Hollywood production of the film, as the real ones are on strike...(mmm, very topical, and believeable as the children will have seen this on the news recently!)
The links from previous blogs from this term are still relevant for this week.
High frequency words are being assessed this week and the list at the front of the diaries will be updated. Many children have come on in leaps and bounds with this, but I have included a few ‘games’ to try to see if we can move a few more children onto the next term’s lists.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/hfwords/starwords/index.shtml just type the words into the control panel and see how many words your child can identify at speed
http://www.ictgames.com/plankgame.html guess a letter by looking at the words on the sails.
http://www.ictgames.com/hybrid.html this is great for those children who like wordsearches to help learn their spellings. This game, uses all the spelling patterns we have been working on so far this year.
http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Infant_spellings/infantspelling.htm good spelling investigation, where the children have to work out which pattern to include to spell the word correctly.
http://www.ictgames.com/lcwc.html choose any of the patterns at the bottom of the screen to give a list of words that the children could attempt to spell
http://www.ictgames.com/wordreader.html
http://www.ictgames.com/dinosaurwordsrepeat.html
Numeracy
This week, we will be:
· Counting on and back in 1, 10 and 100.
· Recognising odd and even numbers
· Grouping objects in tens in order to count large numbers
· Reading numbers to 100 (and beyond) and recording in words and figures
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/number-english.html match the number names to the figures
http://www.ictgames.com/100huntplus10.html click on the number in the 100 square to find 10 more
http://www.hyperstaffs.info/work/math/wilce/cosmic.html I love this! The children have to solve the problems along the way, to complete the mission. Some are harder than others, so it may be best if you sit with them for this one. Good for problem solving.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=washindex ordering odd and even numbers on the washing line
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/explore_num_seq/eng/Introduction/default.htm the children will be using this in class to explore odd and even numbers
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=npmenu sort the odd and even numbers into the correct circle.
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/estimate/estimate.html group these objects into small groups in order to make counting easier
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/estimate/estimate.html this site is a bit more challenging, but it great at allowing the children to practice grouping in 10s to make counting quicker.
Science
We continue our theme of Keeping healthy, with looking at how animals produce young and that these grow into adults, and that young children need to be looked after.
By the end of the week, the children should be able to explain that animals produce young which grow older; describe differences between babies and toddlers and how they need to be looked after.
Topic
The children will be introduced to Barnaby Bear this week, who is about to go on a very special journey (courtesy of Mr Worrall!) We will be looking at the journey he will be going on and looking at the different ways in which he could arrive at his destination.
The children will learn how to read e-mails and open attachments, as Barnaby will be sending us photographs and e-mails whilst he is on his journey!
If all goes to plan, we should receive e-mails from Barnaby each day, and the children will work together as a class, to send an e-mail back to Barnaby, asking him to find out information, or send a photograph. Aren’t Blackberry’s a wonderful invention??
Here I Am
We continue our topic of Celebrations with the Relate section. We will be looking at how the church celebrates Feast days and looking at where they occur during the year. Does your child know what Ash Wednesday means and that this year, it is on February 6th?
And finally...
Whilst the vast majority of children arrive in school in plenty of time, there are a few children who are arriving late. This is having a significant impact on the time at which learning can start and means that the children who do arrive after their classmates, are starting their day feeling really unsettled. We would be grateful if all children arrive promptly this week, ready to start our learning each day.
CONGRATULATIONS to Mrs Malone’s class, who won the Maths Champion cup for the largest number of correct answers in the number bond challenge for the first week of this term. Last week’s winner will be announced in assembly on Monday morning...who will it be this week?
Many thanks for your continued and valued support. Which class is going to reach 100% in their reading diary comments this week?
Have a good week!
Year 1/2 team.
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