Phonics

Year 1

This week we have been learning about “ck”. We know that at the end of a small word with a short vowel it is usually a “ck” sound. 

Our spellings this week are:

hop

fit

grin

duck

neck 

clock

lick

go

no

broomstick

 

Year 2

This week we are learning the trigraph (3 letters making 1 sound) air. Here are this week’s spellings…

cliff

off

air

hair

pair

stair

chair

hairbrush

September

October

 

English

This week we have been thinking about water. We have been generating lots of words related to water and used these to create poems. We thought of actions to go with our poems and learnt about onomatopoeia, repetition and rhythm. We even wrote down our poems in the shape of a water droplet.

 

Maths

Year 1

This week we are learning about subtraction. We have learned that this symbol “-” means minus, subtract and take away. We have been using resources to work out stories that use “NOT” and learning how to write a subtraction equation. 

Here are some to try at home. Perhaps you can draw it and then write the equation:

I went to the shop and bought 8 cookies. 5 were chocolate chip. How many were not?

 

There are 7 children going out to play. 6 have put coats on. How many have not put them on?

 

I have a bag of 10 lollipops. 4 of them are red. How many are not red?

 

Year 2

This week we have been finding the difference which is one way we can subtract (minus, take away). We have been doing lots of challenges and investigations to find pairs of numbers that have the same difference and learning that consecutive numbers always have a difference of 1. We have used cubes (making towers and counting the difference), numicon (laying one piece over the other and counting the difference) and number lines (circling both numbers and jumping to each tick mark in between to count the difference) to support our learning this week.

 

As part of your home learning can you find the difference between these numbers and explain how you found the answer?

12-11=

8-6=

5-1=

9-6=

 

Art Project - Funny Faces 

Our new art project is all about portraits. We have attached the knowledge organiser to the bottom of this blog with all of the key knowledge and vocabulary on. This week children have compared different portraits by famous artists, used collage to create funny faces and explored mark making with different pencils. After this we used mirrors to look closely at our facial features and sketched eyes, noses and mouths.

No Pens Day

Today, Wednesday is no pens day. Today we have taken away all pens, pencils and writing instruments for the entire day to encourage children to access their learning through different methods. For example- practical maths and performance poetry.