News sheet spr 2015
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Wheler Class Parents Information Spring Term 1 2015 Useful Information Topic Information How to Help at Home PE – EVERY Monday and Wednesday Black shorts, white T shirt, Grey Tracksuit Trainers or pumps Show and Tell – Mondays Any items brought in must relate to your child’s weekend news or the topic we are doing in class. Naming clothing Please don’t forget to write your child’s name in new school uniform Moon Zoom! CRASH! What’s that in the ARK? Let’s go and take a look. Stand back everyone it looks like a UFO has crash landed! ENGLISH Character (Alien) profiles Non-chronological Reports Fantasy Story writing Adverts; Science fiction MATHS Number and Problem solving Position and Direction, Mass and Time D&T Evaluating Toys Designing and Making using mechanisms ART & DESIGN Crating 3D models COMPUTING Drawing software, Algorithms Email, Photo Stories GEOGRAPHY Investigating satellite images HISTORY Researching significant people Changes within living memory MUSIC Composing space sounds PE Dance PSHE Aspirations and Goal setting SCIENCE Properties of materials Working Scientifically RE Why should we care for the Earth? How can we care for God’s World? All Children should read aloud each evening for at least 10 minutes. This can be to an adult or alternatively your child can read aloud to themselves then tell you about what they’ve read or answer some questions about the text. PLEASE sign your child’s reading diary every time they read at home. Learning Logs I have sent home the next 4 learning log entries. The expectation is your child does an entry each week and brings their completed work into school each Tuesday (It does not matter which order you choose to do the entries in) Handwriting Please encourage your child to pay close attention to how each letter is formed and how it is positioned on the line. If your child is unable to form individual letters correctly they are not expected to join letters Spelling Tests take place on Tuesday’s Metal Maths All children need to quicken their recall of number bonds and multiplication facts. Every Friday the children do a BEAT-IT test. To support your child please practice metal recall.at every opportunity General Websites (great for Literacy and Numeracy games): http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ - lots of links to other website (either search for a specific focus or search by subject and age) http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/science_6_7.shtml - interactive science activities for all the science topics we will cover over the year http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ http://uk.ixl.com/math/year-2
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Wheler Class Parents Information Spring Term 1 2015 Useful Information Topic Information
How to Help at Home
PE – EVERY Monday and Wednesday Black shorts, white T shirt, Grey Tracksuit Trainers or pumps Show and Tell – Mondays Any items brought in must relate to your child’s weekend news or the topic we are doing in class. Naming clothing Please don’t forget to write your child’s name in new school uniform
Moon Zoom! CRASH! What’s that in the ARK? Let’s go and take a look. Stand
back everyone it looks like a UFO has crash landed! ENGLISH Character (Alien) profiles Non-chronological Reports Fantasy Story writing Adverts; Science fiction MATHS Number and Problem solving
Position and Direction, Mass and Time D&T Evaluating Toys Designing and Making using mechanisms ART & DESIGN Crating 3D models COMPUTING Drawing software, Algorithms
Email, Photo Stories GEOGRAPHY Investigating satellite images HISTORY Researching significant people Changes within living memory MUSIC Composing space sounds PE Dance PSHE Aspirations and Goal setting SCIENCE Properties of materials
Working Scientifically RE Why should we care for the Earth? How can we care for God’s World?
All Children should read aloud each evening for at least 10 minutes. This can be to an adult or alternatively your child can read aloud to themselves then tell you about what they’ve read or answer some questions about the text.
PLEASE sign your child’s reading diary every time they read at home.
Learning Logs I have sent home the next 4 learning log entries. The expectation is your child does an entry each week and brings their completed work into school each Tuesday (It does not matter which order you choose to do the entries in)
Handwriting Please encourage your child to pay close attention to how each letter is formed and how it is positioned on the line. If your child is unable to form individual letters correctly they are not expected to join letters
Spelling Tests take place on Tuesday’s Metal Maths All children need to quicken their recall of number bonds and multiplication facts. Every Friday the
children do a BEAT-IT test. To support your child please practice metal recall.at every opportunity
General Websites (great for Literacy and Numeracy games): http://www.topmarks.co.uk/
- lots of links to other website (either search for a specific focus or search by subject and age)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/science_6_7.shtml
- interactive science activities for all the science topics we will cover over the year
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/
http://uk.ixl.com/math/year-2
