Phonics

Year 1

Year 1 have been recapping the “ea” digraph this week. We have been reading and writing words containing the “ea” sound. We have also been practising reading and writing our tricky words. Here are this week's spellings….

peas

teapot

clean

meat

sea

treat

teams

could

would

should

 

Year 2

Year 2 has been recapping the /ou/ digraphs ou and ow this week. We know the ow digraph usually comes at the end of words. Here are this week’s spellings…

snap

swam

loud

cloud

found

now

crowd

sunflower

seventy

eighty

 

English

This week in English, the children have been levelling up. We have been giving them a simple sentence each day which we then added adjectives (words which describe a noun), more interesting verbs, adverbs (describe verbs) and conjunctions to give us more information. These sentences will form a short story by the end of the week. At home, you could have a go at up-levelling these sentences (either verbally or written)…

 

The girl found a coin.

The pirate jumped.

She looked out the window.

 

Maths

Year 1

In year 1 this week we have been learning about time. We have thought about time words and told stories using “before” and “after”. We have talked about our day and drawn a plan of things we do in the morning, afternoon and evening. We have learned the names of the days of the week and months of the year and sorted them into the correct order. Finally we have answered questions like what happened yesterday? What day will it be tomorrow?

Here is a link to the youtube songs we have listened to.

Days of the week songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GKmCQOy88Y

 

Months of the year song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe9bnYRzFvk

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

AT HOME...

What day will Ben go swimming?

When does Ben play football?

What is Ben going to do on Saturday?

 

Year 2

In year 2 this week we are exploring fractions. We have recapped half of shapes and amounts, explored quarters and learnt about thirds. We know the fractions are equal parts of whole things.

 

We have been using bar models and cherry models to help us find fractions of amounts.

There are some great resources on BBC Bitesize which you can try at home… https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3rbg82

 

Art Project- Rain & Sunrays

Our new art project will teach children about printmaking. We will be learning about weather symbols and motifs, creating transient art, sketching lines, shapes and patterns, exploring textures. 

You can find the knowledge organiser with all the key information and vocabulary attached to the end of this blog. 

 

RSHE

This half term our theme is ‘Healthy Me’. We will be thinking about how we can keep ourselves clean and healthy and year 2 will be thinking of ways to keep motivated. We will talk about how medicines can make us better and how important it is to use them safely. 

 

RE

This term we are focusing on Christianity with the theme, ‘Easter Resurrection’. We will be thinking about the question, ‘How important is it to Christians that Jesus came back to life after his crucifixion?’ We will be learning to re-tell the Easter story and understand what Jesus’ resurrection means for Christians.