English

Over the next few weeks we will be exploring the text “Ocean Meets Sky” by the Fan brothers.

 

We found an old parcel in our classrooms and unwrapped it to look for clues about who it belonged to. We found a boat, some shells, an old picture of a man and a young boy, waterproofs and a book of adventure stories written for Finn. We used the objects and the front cover of the book to make predictions about what the story is going to be about and what the people in the story might like and do. We have used conjunctions and adjectives to write descriptions of the old man in the picture. We then used all the clues and answers to write a description of the setting from the book.

 

Year 1 phonics

This week in phonics we are recapping the “ow” sound. We have also been really listening to make sure we hear all the sounds in words we are trying to write, especially word endings like nk, lk, st, mp.

Our spellings are:

big

fox

milk

how

owl

brown

town

could

should

flowerpot

 

Year 2 

This week we have been learning the ear spelling of /air/. Here are this week’s spellings…

mend

silk

bear

tear

pear

wear

swear

underwear

Weight

Volume

 

Maths

Year 1

This week in year 1 we have been using our knowledge of tens to begin to investigate tens and ones. AT the beginning of the week we found lots of pots of objects that needed counting. Mrs Morgan made so many mistakes counting them in 1s so we decided to try putting the objects into lines of 10. We used a sorting frame to help us. Once we got really confident at this we learned about Dienes (ten sticks and ones). We have used these to make numbers and to think about how to write 10s and 1s.

Here are some examples for you to try at home. 

What numbers have been made?

                           

Year 2

This week we started the week by learning how to subtract a 2 digit number from another 2 digit number crossing ones. Below is an example…

44 - 26 = 18

Here we draw out 44. 

Then we take away 2 tens from the 4 tens. 

We can’t take away 6 ones from 4 ones so we exchange a ten for 10 ones.

Now we can take away the 6 ones. 

To find the answer we count the tens and ones which are left.

Most of us found drawing out tens and one the most efficient method and a few of us used equations.

Here we take away the tens and then take away the ones.

Then we recapped the different coins. We labelled, played games and counted coins in pence.

 

We also looked at different ways to make the same amount. For example 23p can be made with..

20p+2p+1p

10p+10p+1p+1p+1p

5p+5p+10p+2p+1p

 

Project - School Days

Our new project is History and we have begun to learn about life in Victorian times and what Victorian schools are like. We have handled artefacts and our classrooms are now all set up with the tables in rows! A victorian school day is very different to ours now.