9th December 2013

Hello and welcome to another week of busy activities. We would like to thank the children for their excellent production of the Christmas play “Minty Mouse! We are so proud of the children and now that they thoroughly enjoyed their performances. We definitely have a few budding actors and actresses among them!

We had our Christmas Fair on Friday which was a great success. Thank you to everyone who turned up and supported the school.

This week we will be assessing the children on their reading, writing, numeracy and phonics. Some assessments have already taken place and will be continuing throughout the week.

 

Literacy

The children will be writing a Christmas Story and focusing on the grammar and punctuation of the story.

Can you help your child by:

·       Empathising that a capital letter needs to be at the start of a sentence and a full stop needs to be at the end of a sentence?

·       Adjectives can be added to sentences to make objects sound more interesting.

·       Conjunctions can be added to sentences to extended the sentence and add extra information.

 

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/wordplay.html

 

http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/grammar/verb/balloon_game/

 

http://www.disney.co.uk/disney-junior/art-attack/           

 

Numeracy

 

The children will be having a numeracy test which will test all of the areas covered so far in this half term.

 

Below is a list of some of the topics that the children will be tested on:

·       Use every day language to describe 2D and 3D shapes – what the shape are called and how many sides and corners shapes have.

·       Odds and evens – can they identify odds and evens numbers up to 100.

·       Counting reliably up to 30 and above.

·       Reading and writing numbers up to 100.

·       Understanding the operation of + and – and use related vocabulary.

·       To know pairs to 10 and build up to pairs to 100.

·       To recognise coins and their values – to be able to add up amounts and find totals.

·       To read the time to the hour/half hour on an analogue clock.

·       Start to recognise multiples of 2,5 and 10.

 

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/Infant_activities/daysofweek1.htm

 

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/seasons.htm

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enDRrWyXaw

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzIbbvoiMA

 

http://www.ictgames.com/Y1shape.html

 

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/memory.html

 

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_114_g_2_t_3.html

 

http://www.coppschool.lancsngfl.ac.uk/Classwork/Classwork/flashaids/sorting_2d_shapes.swf

http://mathematics.hellam.net/maths2000/shapes.swf

 

http://www.interactivestuff.org/match/maker.phtml?featured=1&id=31

 

https://hwb.wales.gov.uk/cms/hwbcontent/Shared%20Documents/vtc/ngfl/maths/greg_morgan_symmetry/index.htm

 

http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year3/symmetry/shape_game.asp

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/maths/calamity.shtml

Topic

This week we will be starting their artwork related to the artist Van Gogh. We have been  looking at a variety of his work and the children will be experimenting with materials to produce their own artwork!

 Vincent van Gogh web links

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/

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.

http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?lang=nl

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.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/

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!

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/V/vangogh.html

Vincent van Gogh at the Archive: another good and comprehensive site, with lots of quality images and bibliographical extras.

http://www.vggallery.com/

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. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

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.

http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vangogh/vangogh.html

Another great art site in general, with excellent entry for the Dutch Master (not Dennis Bergkamp!); lots of images.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/van_gogh_vincent.html

Vincent van Gogh at the Artcylcopedia: basically a links portal for all things Van Gogh

Notices this week:

Monday 9^th December 2013 is the dress rehearsal of the Year3/4 Production.

Tuesday 10^th December 2013 is the children’s Christmas dinner.

Friday 13^th December 2013 is the Advent Service in school. Details on the school newsletter)

Thank you for your continued support

Year 1/2 Team