This week sees the first of our Parent and Teacher consultations. You should have received your appointment time before the holidays if one was requested. Please remember these times are 10 minutes each, so if you require longer, you may be asked to make an additional appointment to ensure that other parents are not kept waiting.
English
This week in English we will start a unit on Poetry. As this
time of year has lots of interesting and exciting events what better than to
write poems about them! We will begin this by writing about Autumn and all the
changes which are happening to the trees and animals at the moment. We will be
looking at the type of verbs (action words) which could be used to make our
poems more interesting.
We will also be working on basic skills in reading and writing
including developing comprehension skills and the correct use of capital
letters and full stops.
Some websites to help:-
Maths
This week in Maths we will be learning
about measuring length. The Year 1 children will compare two or
more lengths or heights by direct comparison and measure
lengths using uniform non-standard units.
The Year 2 children will estimate,
measure and compare lengths in centimetres and metres and use a 30 cm ruler.
Some websites to help:-
Topic –Famous People- Vincent Van Gogh
The children will
be starting a new topic about the famous artist “Vincent Van Gogh.” This week the
children will be talking about famous people that they have heard about and why
they are famous. The children will be looking at the life of Vincent Van Gogh
through a variety of power points and reasons why he became famous.
Below are a
variety of websites that could help your child to discover more facts about the
artist.
Vincent van Gogh web links
Great
free site on van Gogh: includes everything from letters, biography, timeline of
his life, pictures you can examine in detail, criticism of his work and
embedded links to other artists whom he influenced and was influenced by.
The van
Gogh museum site (change the language to English). Offers decent biography broken down into
discernible periods in his life, access to decent quality images of his work,
including drawings, sketches, late and early paintings, and most importantly an
incredible audio-visual animated overview of his life and work.
Vincent
van Gogh at the WebMuseum: this incredible resource has everything you could
ever want to know about Vincent van Gogh, including many decent resolution
images of his work. It also contains
embedded links to just about every significant artist throughout history,
artistic movements, traditions and events.
This resource is a must for all art lovers!
Vincent
van Gogh at the Archive: another good and comprehensive site, with lots of
quality images and bibliographical extras.
The
Vincent van Gogh Gallery bills itself as ‘the most comprehensive’ van Gogh
resource on the internet and it is not far wrong: here you will find fully 100%
of all the artist’s paintings, drawings, water colours, sketches, graphic
works, letter sketches and letters.
Wikipedia
offers its usual slice of excellence with this entry on the famous Dutch
artist. Embedded links, audio-visual
resources, critical works; there’s not much else you could want.
Another
great art site in general, with excellent entry for the Dutch Master (not
Dennis Bergkamp!); lots of images.
Vincent
van Gogh at the Artcylcopedia: basically a links portal for all things van
Gogh.
Have a good first week back.
1/2 team
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