13th January 2014

The children have settled back into the routine of school this week. They had a wonderful time at the pantomime and enjoyed the entertainment thoroughly.

Literacy

The pantomime was a good starter for our literacy topic of tradition tales. We are going to be reading a variety of tales over the next couple of weeks. This could be a good focus for bedtime reading at time. It would be great for everyone to hear a different traditional tales once every night for a bedtime story.

 

This week we will be focusing on different characters and looking at the following questions:

• What do they look like?
• How do they act?
• Are they good character or a bad character?
• Do they change throughout the story?
• Where do they live?

 

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.

http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/~odenbach/pigs/pigs.html Wow! This brought back many memories of childhood!

Numeracy

This week in Maths we will be working on Subtraction. Year 1 children will begin to subtract a 1-digit number from a 2-digit number, and subtract by counting back to a multiple of 10.

 

Year 2 children will subtract a multiple of 10 from a 2-digit number by counting back in 10s, and add and subtract 9, 11, 19 and 21 by adding and subtracting 10 and 20.

 

It is important that your child is confidently able to and subtract a multiple of 10 from a given number to achieve them in this objective and as always your support at home is valued.

 

Some websites to help with this are:-

 

http://www.ictgames.com/football2.html

 

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

 

http://mtw.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mw/add_sub/9%20and%2011.swf

 

http://www.ictgames.com/100huntadd11.html

 

 

 

http://www.ictgames.com/100huntminus11.html

 

 

 

Science

The children will start to learn that humans need food and water to stay alive; that children need to eat and drink a variety of food to enable them to grow and to recognise and sort a collection of basic food types.

Maybe you could get them to sort out the weekly shopping in the food groups, or plan a meal, to make sure it includes all the elements – then they can see it isn’t always as easy as it looks!

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&sectionId=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’??

Come and See

The children will be exploring the theme of books and will be focusing on the following questions:

• What is the Bible?
• Why is it so important?
• How do you think we can show reverence for the Bible?
• What does the first part of the Bible tell us?
• What is the second part of the Bible about?
   
  Can the children choose a favourite story from the Bible and retell the story to someone in your family?
   
   
  Thank you
  Year 1/2 Team.