Welcome to
another busy week. The children have been very busy this week with bonfire
night and school disco. The Christmas play parts have now been given out and we
will be starting to look at the formalities of the play in the upcoming week.
English
This week in
English we will begin a unit on Instructions. As this time of year has lots of
interesting and exciting events what better than to write instructions about
them! We will begin this week by recognising what makes a good set of
instructions and how to make them clear to follow. We will be looking at
‘bossy’ verbs (doing words)which could be used to make our instruction more
interesting.
Have a look
at home for any instructions you can find and see if you can see any ordering
words-m first, next, then, after, finally.
We will also
be working on basic skills in reading and writing including developing the use
of verbs and the correct use of capital letters and full stops.
Some
websites to help:-
Maths
This week in Maths we will be learning about time. We will begin by
learning the order of the days of the week, months and seasons and the events
which happen in each.
The Year 1 children will know the days of the week; order familiar events in time,
know the seasons of the year; begin to know the months.
The Year 2 children will use units of time: hours in a day, days in a week, use units
of time: months in a year, seasons in a year.
Some websites to help:-
Topic
This week we will be tracing the course of Van Gogh’s life
on a map of Europe and looking at some of the capital cities of the countries
where he lived. The children will produce a map showing the route he took
during his life.
If the children have an atlas at home see if they can find
Europe.
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
Science
This week in
science we will be continuing to think about forces. We will be helping
Discovery Dog with an investigation! Naughty Nora has torn a hole in the
shopping bag and the shopping has fallen out. Discovery Dog wants to know how
far the different items roll. Which ones roll the furthest? We will be planning
an investigation to help him work out the answer!
Can you look
around at home for things that move when you apply a force? Can you decide if
you need to use a push or a pull to make things move? Can you try rolling some
different items of shopping? Which ones travel the furthest?
Information
for the week:
The
Religious Education Inspection will take place on the 12th November
in school.
Any Morrison
vouchers can be placed in the special Morrison’s box in the Key Stage 1 Area.
Thank you
for your continued support.
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