This week we began our topic about
Harpenden and in English used the topic to learn about non chronological
reports.
We began by talking about what we
already know about Harpenden.
After we wrote our own sentences
about what we know. We had to remember
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Title - What I know about
Harpenden
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Get sentence in head before
you start writing
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Capital letter at start of
sentence
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Finger spaces
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. (at end) (challenge
! ?)
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Capital letters for names
of places
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Use ‘and’ to join
(challenge - because)
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Choose words carefully
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Phoneme fingers for
spelling
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After each sentence read it
and check it makes sense
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Correct letter formation so
others can read it
The following day we learnt about Harpenden now following a Power point
text. After we had a quiz about what we
had learnt. We worked in teams. Here are some of the questions we answered.
How many people live in Harpenden? 30, 300, 3000 or over 30,000?
Name three shops in Harpenden.
What is Harpenden world famous for?
On Wednesday we learnt about Harpenden in the past following a Power point
text. Ask your child what they know
about Cock Pond.
After a discussion we wrote our own sentences about what we had learnt.
We had some sentence starters to help us.
In the past……
Did you know……?
Harpenden had…..
Next week we are going to be authors and write our own non chronological reports in a little book that you will be able to read at consultations.
| You may like to follow the link to find out more
about Harpenden, there is a wealth of information and something that will
appeal to everyone. Within the website
there is a section entitled Walks about Harpenden that you may like to do. |
This week in maths we have been continuing our learning about
place value and practising counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
We started by counting in 2s from zero and we marked these
numbers on a hundred square. We noticed that when we count in 2s from zero the
numbers are all even numbers and then end in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8. We then used our
skills of counting in 2s to count objects such as 2p coins or 2s of Numicon. We
also filled in numbers on a number track, but the number track did not start at
zero! We also worked out how make 2s we need to make numbers. Here are some
examples of the activities:
The next day we practised counting in 1os from zero. We marked
these numbers on our hundred square and noticed that all these numbers end in
zero and are in a column on the hundred square. We then practised our counting
in 10s with the following types of activities:
After that we practised counting in5s from zero. This was much
trickier! We marked these numbers on our hundred square and noticed that the
numbers end in 5 or 0, and the ones that end in zero we say when we count in
tens. We realised this is because ten is two lots of five! We again using our
counting in 5s to answer some questions. We used our hundred square to help!
On Friday we used our skills of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to
solve problems. We needed to work out how many 2p, 5p or 10p coins we would
need to buy a Harpenden postcard. We could choose which price postcard we
wanted to buy! Here are some examples:
Please practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s at home, in addition
to counting forwards and backwards to 50 in 1s. You could make up some problems
for your child to solve using these skills. You might like to print off a
hundred square for your child to use at home to mark the multiples of 2, 5 and
10. It may also be useful to help practise ‘bridging 10’ when practising
counting backwards in 1s.
Phonics)
Can
your child show you how they use their phoneme fingers to segment these words stroke,
whole, home, wrote, envelope, cockroach, throat, toast, croak, grown, known,
show, shadow, yellow, tomorrow, toes, Joe, and then blend them back together
again?
Can
they spot the digraph or spilt digraph in the words above.Is there only one digraph in these words or do some have more than one?
Can they read these alien words – sloke, grobes, quoar, stroab, bload, cupow, jows, chow, koe, poes,
Spelling ideas.
Perhaps
you could get your child to think of a sentence using the words above with this
week’s digraphs and the sentence starter At school………
to practise the common exception words. Don’t forget all the Year 1 common exception words are in your child’s Progress Book.
IIn computing we have started our new topic about word
processing. This week we have been trying to type using two hands! This would
be a really useful skill for your child to practise and a good game to play is
Dance Mat Typing on BBC Bitesize. Here is a link to level one: https://toybox.tools.bbc.co.uk/activities/id/activity-dance-mattyping/exitGameUrl/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fguides%2Fz3c6tfr
In science we began growing cress. We are recording our observations in our Cress Diaries just like real scientists. We drew what we saw and predicted what we think will happen in one week.
In science we began growing cress. We are recording our observations in our Cress Diaries just like real scientists. We drew what we saw and predicted what we think will happen in one week.
You may
like to grow some cress seeds at home.
Follow the link to make a cress head.
Your child can bring it into school when it has a full head of hair. We look forward to seeing them! https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/mr-blooms-nursery-cressheads
Don’t forget
next Thursday is World Book Day. We are
looking forward to the children dressing up as their favourite character. Remember to bring in the book their character
is from to share with the class.
Today we have very much enjoyed a visit by Sean Rose, in conjunction
with Sport for Schools. In 2000, while he was working as a ski instructor with
the RAF, Sean had a freak accident in which he broke his back which left
him paralysed from the waist down. In spite of this, Sean Rose is a double winter Paralympian,
as well as a world skiing and water
skiing champion. He was very inspiring and the children had lots of fun. Find
out more about him here: https://www.seanrose.co.uk/
Enjoy your weekend,
