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Friday 04 February

Spellings this week are the following rule: drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’

Learn all the spellings from the list and find 6 more that fit the rule.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 11 February.

Friday 04 February

Your homework this week is CREATIVE and is due in on Wednesday 9 February 2011.

I can invent and make a page of a study book to show people how to write a great set of instructions.

OR

I can invent a page of an important bits book to show people how to interpret pie charts.

Think of the following:

• How the page should look so it looks like a study book or important bits book.
• How you are going to make it creative and interesting to read.
• What information will you include to help your reader learn about instructions or pie charts?
• What tips will you give to your reader?
• If you’re producing information about instructions, don’t forget to mention key features: imperative verbs, connectives that help to give order, numbers, and handy hints.
• If you’re producing information about pie chats don’t forget to mention the learning steps children need to take: look at the number of sections, how many people in total, and fractions for each section.

Have fun!

Cross-country

The Year Four cross-country competition that was due to take place in November has been rescheduled for Friday 18 February. The children will have their lunch as usual at school and then be taken in mini buses to Cardinal Heenan. We’ll return in time for the end of the school day. Children will need their PE kits in school that day. It should be a fun end to the half-term!

Friday 04 February

This week’s homework is creative. It is due in on Wednesday 09 February.

I know properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

You could:

Find examples of 2D and / or 3D shapes around your house.

Produce a table of shapes and their properties.

Produce a spider diagram of shapes and their properties.

(2D shapes may have sides, vertices, angles and lines of symmetry.)

(3D shapes may have faces, edges and vertices.)

Friday 04 February

This week’s spellings are words beginning with a silent ‘k’. Try to think of some more! To be tested on Friday 11 February.

How to help with phonics at home

We are beginning to learn vowel digraphs such as ai, ee, igh, oa, and oo. Encourage your child to say the letter names as this is less confusing at this stage.

Here are some examples of words they will be reading. Their confidence from the daily experience of practising and applying their phonic knowledge to reading and writing is really paying off!

tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil.

Tricky words

The number of tricky words is expanding. These are so important for reading and spelling: he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all.

Continue to play with magnetic letters, using some of the two grapheme (letter) combinations:

r-ai-n = rain blending for reading      rain = r-ai-n – segmenting for spelling

b-oa-t = boat blending for reading    boat = b-oa-t – segmenting for spelling

h-ur-t = hurt blending for reading     hurt = h-ur-t – segmenting for spelling

PLEASE continue reading to your child even when they are reading independently. This is very important – your child needs to practise their reading skills every day, and needs the support of an interested adult.

SEAL statement 31 January

‘I can be responsive’ is the SEAL statement for this week. 

Listening skills can play a key role in how responsive children are to peers and adults in school. 

A good listener always:

• looks at the speaker
• asks appropriate questions
• answers correctly to show they are listening
• doesn’t interrupt the speaker

Symmetry in Shapes

Splendid Symmetry

Circus Time

During this term the Year 1 children are investigating the theme of the Circus through maths, literacy, art, music, and drama.

At the moment, we are working with The Blahs Theatre Company developing our drama skills. We are in the early stages of preparing to hold our own circus, a flea circus! This is being linked to our Literacy work on Fantasy.

Have a look at the children hard at work developing their ideas.