Weekly Update 18.06.07

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to another exciting week in year one and two. Hope all your Dad's had a lovely Father's Day and were well looked after!

Literacy

This week the children will be continuing their work on information texts. They will be adding information about seasides from the past to their own Seaside information book.

ALL children MUST be able to understand the distinction between Fact and Fiction.

MOST children SHOULD be able to use a contents page and index to find their way about a text.

SOME children COULD scan a text to find specific sections, e.g key words or phrases, sub headings.

This week the children will be learning how to change statements into questions, here are some websites which will give good practise in finding, using and writing questions:

http://www.saintambrosebarlow.wigan.sch.uk/questions.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/magickey/adventures/dragon.shtml

More practise on synonyms:

http://www.firstschoolyears.com/literacy/word/other/synonyms/interactive/synonyms.htm

Numeracy

The children will learning how double multiples of 5 and halve multiples of 10 using near doubles. They also will be learning how to recognise the relationship between halves and doubles and how to use this when working out answers to questions.

ALL children MUST be able to double multiples of 5 up to 30 (year 1) and up to 100 (year 2)

MOST children SHOULD be able to halve multiples of 10 up to 100

SOME children COULD be able to add near doubles using an understanding of doubles

Useful websites on doubling and halving:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/games/dartboard.shtml

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

http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/maths/num%20machine/halver.html

See how much you have learnt about weight:

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/learnpremium/simple_probs/002_Teacheractivity/Default.htm

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

Science

We will be continuing our science topic pushes and pulls. The children will be looking at other things which cause movement for example wind, water. They will experiment with water wheels, bubbles and wind chimes, finding out what causes their movement when used.

Websites for this topic:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/pushes_pulls.shtml

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/push_pull/eng/Introduction/default.htm

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/identify_forces/eng/Introduction/default.htm

Topic

The topic work for this week will be linked to literacy. The children will be continuing their work on making a history information book on the seaside. We will investigate secondary sources in order find features which are associated with holidays of the past.

http://tlfe.org.uk/clicker/flashhistoryks1/seaside.swf

http://home.freeuk.com/elloughton13/seaconte.htm

Investigate what Miss McGinty's beach looked like in the past:

NOW

http://www.bangor-local.com/bangornewimages.aspx

THEN

http://www.bangor-local.com/bangorimages.aspx

Here I am

The children will be continuing their work on the topic 'Freedom and Responsiblity'. We will be reading from Isaiah this week, finding out the reason for rules in the christian family.

Have a fantastic week!

Year 1/2 team

xox