Sunday, 21 April 2013

22nd April 2013


Welcome to another week!

Maths

This week in Maths we will be continuing to learn about finding the difference between two numbers plus finding halves and quarters of numbers and shapes.

Year 1 children will find a small difference between two numbers by counting on.

Year 2 children will begin to recognise halves and quarters of shapes and numbers of objects.

Finding halves and quarters of shapes and numbers lead in to learning about different types of fractions and are an important part of mathematics.

Some websites to help:-
 


 


 

 


 

 


 


 


 


 


Literacy

 

The children will use the book “Aliens love underpants” to look at different aspects of space. We will be using questions to role play and hot seat “Aliens”.

We will also be using story boards to retell the story using capital letters, full stops, imaginative language, conjunctions and inverted commas.  The children can explore different aspects of the books by making an alien passport and an alien character profile.

Activities can be downloaded from this website:

http://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/products/88994

Topic

This session starts a project of creating a rocket for the classroom. The children look at features of a rocket and how the design contributes to its ability to penetrate the atmosphere. All of the children will design a big rocket which they will begin to make in the next session.

The children will use photographs and the internet to see different designs of rockets.

Science

We are looking at forces in science and have been discussing pushes and pulls. We are going to be helping Discovery Dog solve another problem. Naughty Nora has chewed up his favourite toys and Discovery Dog wants to get a new ball to play with. He wants to choose a really bouncy one so we are going to help him test some balls so that we can find the bounciest balls for him! We will be planning the investigation this week, making sure that we use fair testing.

Can you have a look around at home and find some pushes and pulls?

Trip

As part of our topic on Space we have arranged a trip to Jodrell Bank Space Centre for Monday 17th June. The children will have the opportunity to join in with two workshops plus a look around the centre. The cost of the trip will be £12 which includes the coach and workshops. A letter will be sent out this week with more details.

 

Have an enjoyable week!

The Year One/Two team.

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