Weekly update 8.01.07
Happy New Year!
Welcome back to a new term in school.
This term the children will be learning about the following topics in Literacy:-
Traditional stories.
Traditional stories from other cultures.
Dictionaries and alphabetically ordered texts.
Explanations.
Science:-
Sorting and using materials.
Plants and animals in the local environment.
History:-
The Great Fire of London.
Geography:-
A contrasting locality overseas.
Art:-
Can buildings speak?
D/T:-
Homes - structures.
Here I Am:-
Books, Memories and Death and New Life.
This week:-
Literacy.
We will begin the topic of traditional tales by introducing a range of stories and looking at the common features. This week we will be concentrating on the types of characters in traditional tales and writing character profiles!
By the end of the week:-
ALL children MUST be able to identify some characters from traditional stories.
MOST children SHOULD be able to describe the appearance or traits of a character.
SOME children COULD describe a character ising particular words and phrases taken from a chosen text.
A good web site for looking at these stories:-
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/english/default.htm
From there you can read the stories of Goldilocks and the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
There is also a Spanish version of Goldilocks for you if you feel so inclined!
Numeracy.
As it is the beginning of a new year we will be learning about units of time, in particular, days of the week, months, seasons, how many hours in the day and when we do certain activities.
A good websit to go on for a range of Mathematical activities:-
www.rainforestmaths.com
Science.
We will begin our topic of Sorting and Using Materials by looking at an assortment of materials.
By the end of the end of this week:-
ALL children MUST be able to name several common materials.
MOST children SHOULD be able to recognise and name several common materials and describe them using terms such as rough, smooth, shiny etc.
SOME children COULD also do the above, and be able to label and record their findings.
Websites to help:-
http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/assets/Flash%20Studio/cfsscience/Materials1/materialsHtm.html
http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/assets/Flash%20Studio/cfsscience/Materials%202/materials2d.html
We will be having a Rich Task before half term to concentrate on The Fire of London and relate it to the learning objectives for Art, D/T and Literacy! If you have any cardboard boxes at home (about the size of a crisp box or shoe box) please could you send them in to school. Also any house design magazines that you may have finished with. Thanks. Watch this space for more information!!
Yuor child may have come home and said that they are no longer allowed to bring their own toys in to school for Golden Time. We have discussed Golden Time as a whole staff and we would like to make this time more rewarding and special for the children. We will be providing a range of activities for the children to choose each week, one of which will be to play board games together. We do have a very small number of such games in school, but would be grateful for any donations of games your child no longer plays with. Please could you check that all the necessary pieces are included with the games. If you are willing to donate any games just hand them to a menber of Infant Staff. Thank you very much.
Just before we finish, a reminder to ensure that all children have a PE kit in school with pumps that fit them as our PE curriculum will begin this week.
Have a super week!!
The Year 1/2 Team
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Welcome back to a new term in school.
This term the children will be learning about the following topics in Literacy:-
Traditional stories.
Traditional stories from other cultures.
Dictionaries and alphabetically ordered texts.
Explanations.
Science:-
Sorting and using materials.
Plants and animals in the local environment.
History:-
The Great Fire of London.
Geography:-
A contrasting locality overseas.
Art:-
Can buildings speak?
D/T:-
Homes - structures.
Here I Am:-
Books, Memories and Death and New Life.
This week:-
Literacy.
We will begin the topic of traditional tales by introducing a range of stories and looking at the common features. This week we will be concentrating on the types of characters in traditional tales and writing character profiles!
By the end of the week:-
ALL children MUST be able to identify some characters from traditional stories.
MOST children SHOULD be able to describe the appearance or traits of a character.
SOME children COULD describe a character ising particular words and phrases taken from a chosen text.
A good web site for looking at these stories:-
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/english/default.htm
From there you can read the stories of Goldilocks and the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
There is also a Spanish version of Goldilocks for you if you feel so inclined!
Numeracy.
As it is the beginning of a new year we will be learning about units of time, in particular, days of the week, months, seasons, how many hours in the day and when we do certain activities.
A good websit to go on for a range of Mathematical activities:-
www.rainforestmaths.com
Science.
We will begin our topic of Sorting and Using Materials by looking at an assortment of materials.
By the end of the end of this week:-
ALL children MUST be able to name several common materials.
MOST children SHOULD be able to recognise and name several common materials and describe them using terms such as rough, smooth, shiny etc.
SOME children COULD also do the above, and be able to label and record their findings.
Websites to help:-
http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/assets/Flash%20Studio/cfsscience/Materials1/materialsHtm.html
http://www.crick.northants.sch.uk/assets/Flash%20Studio/cfsscience/Materials%202/materials2d.html
We will be having a Rich Task before half term to concentrate on The Fire of London and relate it to the learning objectives for Art, D/T and Literacy! If you have any cardboard boxes at home (about the size of a crisp box or shoe box) please could you send them in to school. Also any house design magazines that you may have finished with. Thanks. Watch this space for more information!!
Yuor child may have come home and said that they are no longer allowed to bring their own toys in to school for Golden Time. We have discussed Golden Time as a whole staff and we would like to make this time more rewarding and special for the children. We will be providing a range of activities for the children to choose each week, one of which will be to play board games together. We do have a very small number of such games in school, but would be grateful for any donations of games your child no longer plays with. Please could you check that all the necessary pieces are included with the games. If you are willing to donate any games just hand them to a menber of Infant Staff. Thank you very much.
Just before we finish, a reminder to ensure that all children have a PE kit in school with pumps that fit them as our PE curriculum will begin this week.
Have a super week!!
The Year 1/2 Team
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posted by Year 1/2 team at
4:46 pm
