Welcome to the third week of this half term.
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!
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
have been using of a memory technique to help write the setting of story. The
children will have a good idea as they will have discussed this at home with
you for their speaking and listening homework.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
First,
the children had to learn a rhyme, where they associated pictures/objects with
the numbers 1 to 9. (in red) Ask your child if they can remember the actions to
go with this.
Then we added an element of a story setting to each number (in green)
Then we added an element of a story setting to each number (in green)
1 – SUN – a location
2 – SHOE – something close by
3 – TREE – something in the distance
4 – DOOR – a sound you can hear
5 – HIVE - something you can touch
6 – STICKS – a smell
7 – HEAVEN – something moving or moving somewhere
8 – GATE – emotions or feelings
9 – WINE – a different viewpoint
2 – SHOE – something close by
3 – TREE – something in the distance
4 – DOOR – a sound you can hear
5 – HIVE - something you can touch
6 – STICKS – a smell
7 – HEAVEN – something moving or moving somewhere
8 – GATE – emotions or feelings
9 – WINE – a different viewpoint
The children
then take all of these elements and use them to help them remember the order of
the sentences to write the opening of their story...
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there
lived a beautiful young girl named Cinderella. She lived in a small,
thatched-roof cottage, with her stern, wicked and cruel stepmother and her two
ugly stepsisters, who were always mean to her. Close by to the cottage, there
was a stream, where silver fishes darted in the light of the moon each night.
In the distance, through her small bedroom window, Cinderella was able to see
the royal palace, where she had longed to visit since she was a little girl.
She could hear the sound of birds singing happily in the garden and the bees
humming around the silky, fragrant flowers which had just bloomed. As she
wandered downstairs in her dreary clothes, sweeping brush in her delicate
hands, she dreamt of going beyond the cottage gardens to the palace. Would she
ever get there? The answer, she assumed, would always be NO! Until that is, a
special delivery landed gently onto the doormat...this was to be the day that
would change a humble servant-girl’s life forever!
Here
are some websites that will help your child to develop their story skills about
tradition tales:
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/html/fiction/fairytale2/fairytale.htm this
has lots of examples of Traditional Tales, with activities to support ideas
reading and writing. It does takes a while to download, but the activities and
ideas are well worth it.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-red-riding-hood.htm some
great activities to print and make to do with Little Red Riding Hood. If you
have the time to navigate through some of the other tales on this site, they
are well worth a look. We will be revisiting this site over the course of this
topic.
http://www.penguinreaders.com/pyr/resources/index.html This
may seem quite a daunting site when you first look at it. It isn’t a game that
your child can play on, more of activities that can be carried out with you.
Although it is based on a particular publisher’s books, it can be used with any
version. The PDF files (that open in Acrobat Reader) have a brief overview of
the story, it origins and some ideas of activities that you can do at home. The
chants are a great way of helping children to remember the order of events in
the stories, with having to read the whole story. This will be a great hook for
them when they come to write their own versions in a couple of weeks’ time.
Numeracy
As you know, we sent home a number bonds game over the holidays to help develop the children’s number bonds to 10 knowledge. We can tell that many of you have been playing it, as the children are getting faster and faster in their ability to ‘rapidly recall’ those facts. If they are able to know the bonds to 10, then they will be able to easily calculate the bonds to 100 or even 1000.
As you know, we sent home a number bonds game over the holidays to help develop the children’s number bonds to 10 knowledge. We can tell that many of you have been playing it, as the children are getting faster and faster in their ability to ‘rapidly recall’ those facts. If they are able to know the bonds to 10, then they will be able to easily calculate the bonds to 100 or even 1000.
The children will be learning this number bond
rhyme.
Number bonds to 10
0 and 10 are big strong men 
1 and 9 are feeling fine 
2 and 8 are never late 
3 and 7 come
from Devon 
4 and 6 like
to play tricks 
5 and 5 come
alive
6 and 4 hold
open the door 
7 and 3
visit for tea 
8 and 2 are feeling blue 
9 and 1 have just gone 
10 and 0 are
superheroes. 
Here are some websites to help with the children’s learning:
http://www.rainforestmaths.com/ a favourite of mine! Click on level B or C and then any of the number activities
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/units120.html how many questions can you answer in 2 minutes?
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/numberskills.html click on any of the timed activities to help with number bonds knowledge.
http://www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/Hit%20the%20button%20v9.swf select the number bonds activity and then make 10 or 20. How many can you get right before the clock runs out?
http://nwlg.org/pages/resources/ma_num/swf/make10.html make 10
http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum20.html make 20 - the dance will really make you giggle!
http://www.ictgames.com/brilliant_beadstring.html move the beadstring to make patterns to 10 and 20
http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html match the pipes to make the number bonds to 10
http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/numberbond.html make up your own number bond games
http://www.interactivestuff.org/sums4fun/colquiz.html for each question you get right, it colours in a part of the picture!
http://www.mathsonline.co.uk/nonmembers/gamesroom/bugs/bugrace3.html a
great game for two players. Choose 0 as the lowest number and 9 as the highest,
it will create a game to practice and reinforce those number bonds.
Science
The children will continue to learn that humans
need food and water to stay alive; the children are tasting different juices
and choosing their favourite flavour. The following sites will show the type of
vocabulary the children will be expected to know by the end of the topic.
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/healthy_eating/eng/Introduction/default.htm we
will be using this website in class to introduce the topic this week
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=platehtml The
balanced plate – sort the foods into the correct category as they come along
the conveyor belt.
http://www.welltown.gov.uk/school/dining_game.html sort
the food from the plate into the correct category
http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/Activity.aspx?siteId=3§ionId=37&contentId=55 make
your own balanced plate of food
http://www.greatgrubclub.com/?location_id=71 a
great site, with lots of fun activities to share. It does involve cooking,
which is great activity and covers so many areas of the curriculum. Why not
have a go at making the ‘eye-ball eggs’??
Topic
The children have started their topic and Healthy Humans. We talked about the importance
of knowing what to do in an emergency. We will be discussing the question:
“Who do we
contact in an emergency?”
To support this learning at home you could
talk to your child about the importance of the emergency services.
Come and See
The children will be exploring the theme of
books and will be focusing on the following questions:
“How
many Gospels are there?”
“What
are the names of the Gospels?”
“How
do the Gospels help us?”
“What
is your favourite story about Jesus and why?”
Can
the children choose a favourite story from the Bible and retell the story to
someone in your family?
This
week the children can bring their own bible into school. We can put them on our
class collective worship table for display.
Homework
All of the children need to bring in their
homework folders every week. We can place the speaking and listening homework
inside the folders for the following week.
Year 2’s you need to bring your completed
reading comprehensions in every week.
If you have any questions please do not
hesitate to come in and see one of the one and two team.
Thank you for your support.
Thank you
Year 1/2 Team.
