9 years ago
Posted on 30th Sep 2016 by Admin

Class 2 update

Just a little update about what we have been up to this week…

English

This week in English we have been looking at the settings in fairy stories e.g. a castle setting in Sleeping Beauty, gingerbread house in Hansel and Gretel, etc. We have also taken part in more role play to act out our favourite scenes, used adjectives to describe the settings (year 1) and written expanded noun phrases (year 2). The children have enjoyed drawing their favourite setting and describing it to a partner.

As homework this week, I have provided the children with a sheet to draw their favourite fairy tale character. I would like the year 1 children to write adjectives around their character to describe them e.g. beautiful, funny, scary, etc. Year 2 children have a similar sheet however I expect them to write expanded noun phrases to describe their character e.g. She was lovely, beautiful and caring. Year 2 if you can add a conjunction and extend your sentence further…even better!

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Maths

We have completed a second week looking at addition.

Year 1 – Year 1 started the week learning how to recognise one more/one less than a given number to 20. Then we explored how to add small numbers together mentally by starting with the larger number and counting on. We have also looked for patterns in addition sentences and have ended with addition word problems today.

Year 2 – Year 2 have learned how to partition 2-digit numbers into tens and ones using base ten. We then focussed on adding 2-digit numbers together, adding tens first then the ones to combine the two for an answer. Year 2 then recapped on adding 10 to a 2-digit number using a 100 square (as some children found this difficult last week), the children that grasped this were extended to add 20 and 30 to 2-digit numbers. Today we have completed addition word problems.

Phonics

Year 1 – Have been recapping on the ‘ch’ and ‘th’ phoneme.

Year 2 – Have been looking at the ‘j’ sound spelt ‘g’ before ‘e’, ‘i’ and ‘y’ e.g. gem.

Spellings

Here are this week’s spellings to be tested on Friday 7^th October.

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Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards

9 years ago
Posted on 30th Sep 2016 by Admin

Class 3 Spellings – to be tested on Friday 7th October

Orange

Revision of words with ‘bl’ and ‘cl’

Green

Revision of words with ‘ur’

Blue

Revision of words with ‘le’

Words with one consonant before ‘le’

Red

Revision of words with ‘le’

Words with one consonant before ‘le’

blind

blink

bleep

clap

clip

click

HFW

the

see

burst

blur

surf

church

nurse

purse

Days of the Week:

Thursday

Saturday

people

bible

fable

staple

cable

miracle

trouble

double

trifle

ladle

trouble

miracle

cubicle

article

obstacle

vehicle

9 years ago
Posted on 29th Sep 2016 by Admin

Phonics

This week Class 1 have looked at the sounds – g o c k . They have practised saying the sounds and writing them.

For ‘g’ we say ‘ Around the girl’s face, down her hair and give her a curl.’

For ‘o’ we ‘All around the orange.’

For ‘c’ we say ‘Curl around the caterpillar.’

For ‘k’ we say ‘Down the kangaroo’s body, up his tail and down his leg.’

The children also practise writing their names on a daily basis, you can support them at home by encouraging your child to paint / chalk / write their names on steamed windows.

9 years ago
Posted on 29th Sep 2016 by Admin

Open the book

Some of the children in Class 1 helped to act out today’s Bible story. They had to be the River Jordan.

Gracie got to blow out the candle at the end.

9 years ago
Posted on 29th Sep 2016 by Admin

More patterns!

Class 1 are getting very good at creating repeating patterns.

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9 years ago
Posted on 28th Sep 2016 by Admin

Making repeating patterns

The children in Class 1 have been busy making repeating patterns.

http://www.literactive.com/Download/live.asp?swf=story_files/sequence_game_US.swf

9 years ago
Posted on 27th Sep 2016 by Admin

Class 4 Homework

Dear Parents/Carers,

In English we have been looking at different types of clauses within sentences, including relative and embedded clauses.

We expect that all children complete some homework each week. Children can complete the activity independently or with your support and choose which questions they would like to do.

If any children feel that they would like an extra challenge, they should speak to an adult in Class 4, and we will happily send additional homework out.

Please ensure homework is returned by Monday so that it can be marked and new homework stuck in before it is due to be sent out again.

We thank you for your support with this.

Kind regards,

Mrs Chadwick and Mrs Foster

9 years ago
Posted on 23rd Sep 2016 by Admin

Phonics – ‘n’ ‘p’

Over the last 2 days the children have looked at ‘n’ and ‘p’.

They have practised the sound each letter makes and had a go at writing them.

To write ‘n’ we say ‘Down Nobby and over his net’ and for ‘p’ we say ‘ down his plait and over the pirate’s face.’

The children have played initial sounds – http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

and to help with segmenting and blending – http://www.iboard.co.uk/teacher/bictonclass1/1/5 Stage 1 and 2.

9 years ago
Posted on 23rd Sep 2016 by Admin

Class 4 update

English

In English we have been working on the ‘Just So’ stories by Rudyard Kipling. Today we began planning ideas for our own Just So stories ready for writing them next week.

Maths

The children have been learning about decimal numbers and how to order them, place them correctly on number lines and understand the effect of multiplying or dividing them by 10 and 100.

Geography

Following our walk around Bicton last week we focussed on map skills this lesson. The children worked really hard to produce maps of the school grounds using aerial photographs.

Linked to this, in Art the children have been collaging pictures of things that they see on their journey to school using a variety of materials.

Science

Continuing with their work on electricity, the children made their own circuits this week and learnt how to draw circuit diagrams. They also had to test a variety of circuits to see if they worked or not and make predictions about what might happen each time.