Spellings WB 07.06.10

Sorry these are late! The sound for this week is /o/ (making the 'u' sound):

gloves
son
front
dozen
monkey
somebody


Also learn:

ark
clever
woman
women


Thank you

Mr Lewis

Spellings WB 01.06.10

Spellings this week use the sound /eigh/ as in eight.

eight
eighteen
eighty
weigh
neighbour
(please note the AMERICAN spelling is neighbor, without the "u". Please teach your child the British spelling.)

Other words are:

reindeer
child
children
slug
grub

Any questions please ask. Many thanks.

Mr Lewis

Spellings WB 24.05.10

Here are this week's spellings. The sound for this week is /sion/ again making the /shun/ sound. Look out for one of the words which has the /tion/ sound from last week.

fist
best
occasion
division
revision
invasion
explosion
television
fraction
estimate

See if you can use these words in your stories and sentences. Any questions please ask.

Mr Lewis

Numeracy WB 17.05.10

In numeracy this week we shall be using numberlines and number squares to add and to take away from larger numbers up to 100. It would be helpful if you could practise adding and taking away 10 from any given number. Help them to see that by adding 10 you are effectively changing the tens digit of the number and keeping the units the same.

If they understand this they can move on to add in 11 (by adding 10 and then one more) and adding 9 ( by adding ten and taking one away):

There are some number games on the "Number Square Games" link that are useful for this or click on the links below.

Adding 10 on a number square.

Adding 11 on a number square.

Counting forwards in 10s on a numberline.

Counting backwards in 10s on a numberline.

Keep practising and good luck!

Mr Lewis

Spellings WB 17.05.10

This week's sound is /tion/ (making a "shun" sound)

nation
station
relation
action
fiction
dictionary

Also learn these words :
minute
second
must
stuck

Any questions, please ask.
Good luck!

Mr Lewis

Spanish Links

Where possible this week I have tried to link the spelling words to an online Spanish dictionary so you can easily check the meaning of the words if you are unsure. Some words in english are ambiguous  (e.g. tear can be pronounced more than one way and so mean una lágrima or the verb desgarrar) I have left these ones out.


Please let me know how useful this is to you. I will do my best (time permitting) to continue this in future.


Many thanks,


Mr Lewis

Numeracy WB 10.05.10

This week in Numeracy we will be using place value to help us with our number problems. Please use the following link to help your child understand and practise using Place value.

Place Value Games


Many thanks
Mr Lewis

Spellings WB 10.05.10

This weeks sound (or phoneme) is /ear/ ( again making the sound "air"). The children have learnt that there are lots of ways to make this sound:

/air/ as in hair
/ear/ as in bear
and /are/ as in square

The spellings for this week are:
grip, milk, bear, tear, pear, wear, swear, underwear, weight, volume.

Again weight and volume are useful words used in Numeracy and you may want to discuss these concepts with your child too.

Many thanks

Mr Lewis

Plants and Animals hunt!

For our variation project this term I have asked the children to bring in any pictures they have of Plants or animals. These can be pictures they see on the internet or in magazines. If you want to you can also take photos to bring in of any pets or animals you see outside or in the zoo.
The pictures will be used to make a collage display and for discussions in class. It would be useful if you could find out anything about the pictures you collect.
(e.g. are they birds, mammals, insects, fish or amphibians etc? How do you know?) Don´t worry if you do not have all the answers. We will talk about it in class.

Good luck!

Mr Lewis

Numeracy WB 03.05.10

Well done to all of you who complete the 2 and 4 times table tasks I gave you last week. Remember to keep these at home so you can keep practicing with them.

This week we are looking at numbers from 100 and beyond. Use the link below to see if you can place numbers bigger than 100. Parents you can probably work out what to do by having a go but if you need to,press the information button and scroll over parts of the progam to work out how to use it! :-)
Interactive Numberline.
Any questions please ask.

Many thanks

Mr Lewis

Spellings WB 03.05.10

This weeks sound (or phoneme) is /are/ (making the sound "air"). the children have learnt that there are lots of ways to make this sound:

/air/ as in hair
/ear/ as in bear
and /are/ as in square

The spellings for this week are:

hare
care
share
scare
square
nightmare

also:

film
kept
millilitre
litre

You make want to discuss and play with capacity when talking about millilitre and litre as this is useful vocabulary for Numeracy.

Any questions please ask :-)!

Mr Lewis

Spellings week beginning 26.04.10

This weeks spellings focus on words which have a silent 'c'

scent
crescent
scene
science
muscle
scissors
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

As before please note that the months of the year are PROPER NOUNS. They are written with CAPITAL LETTER at the beginning. In the test the months will be marked as wrong if they do not have a capital letter at the beginning.

Any questions please ask,

Many thanks

Mr Lewis

Apologies for a spelling mistake!!!

Some of you may have noticed there was a mistake in last weeks spellings!

rhinosaurus should be spelt rhinoceros.

The word will not be counted in this weeks spelling test. Could children please learn it again correctly ready for next weeks spelling test.

My apologies for not noticing this sooner!

Many thanks,

Mr Lewis

Numeracy Week beginning 19.04.10

This week we will be looking at multiplication and division facts. (e.g. 3x5=15 and 5x3=15 so 15÷3=5 or 15÷5=3). There is a useful program to download help teach you child these concepts:

Multiplication Array

Later in the week we shall be looking at time, specifically timing( e.g. how many times can a jump, write my name, write a letter in a minute). Don't forget to keep practising with the clock they made over Easter and to keep discussing time.

Also now may be a good time to revise the 2, 5 and 10 times tables to help with what children are doing in the classroom.

Many thanks,

Mr Lewis

Spellings Week Beginning 19th April 2010

This weeks spellings use the silent 'h'. In English some words have an h that is not pronounced:

rhyme
hour
ghost
rhinoceros
honest

Also can you learn the first five months of the year:

January
February
March
April
May

Please note that the months of the year are PROPER NOUNS. They are written with CAPITAL LETTER at the beginning. In the test the months will be marked as wrong if they do not have a capital letter at the beginning.

Good luck. Any questions just ask.

Many thanks

Mr Lewis

Numeracy

This week in numeracy we will be looking at subraction using the word "difference".

This can be difference in measurement (e.g. compare two objects which is taller? What is the difference between them?)

Also the difference in numbers. ( I have 50p I spend 45p. How much change do I get? What is the difference between the two numbers?)

It is helpful to show difference between two numbers on a number line. You can make one yourself or an example can be found at:

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/maths/docs/numbertrackto100.doc

Any questions please ask.

Many thanks

Mr Lewis

Spellings!!!

I hope you all had a fantastic holiday and are refreshed and ready to come back to school!

This weeks spellings end with 'y' and make an 'ee' sound.

silly
puppy
hurry
happy
family
fairy
lazy
funny

and two more words:

which ("Which cake would you like to eat?")
would ("I would like the chocolate cake.")

Any questions please ask.

Many thanks.

Mr Lewis

Easter Numeracy

Over Easter we shall be sending home tasks to do with money and time. These should get you started on discussing time and money.

It is really helpful if you can let your child experience handling money for real, either having some to spend for themselves in a shop or just to look at and play with. Help them to understand what they can afford with their money and whether they need change.

For time we have provided a clock for your child to make in order to help them with the time problems. Again it is helpful if they can be looking at different clocks and watches both digital and analogue as well as relating time to their daily lives (e.g. What time do we get up? What time will lunch be? How long will it take to get to our destination?).

Have a happy and relaxing Easter with lots of playing too :-)!!!

Mr Lewis

Spellings

There are no spellings for over the easter holidays. However this is a good opportunity to look again at the sounds and spellings we have had this term.

the sounds covered so far have been

ie - pie
oa - goat, boat
ue - blue, glue
er - term, brother, sister
oi - boil, oil, soil
ou - bound, ground, found
or - for, sport, fort
ey - key, monkey, honey

Maybe you know other ways you can make these sounds too...

Good luck!

This weeks spellings

This week 1C have been learning the /ey/ sound.

key
turkey
barley
pulley
monkey
key hole
honey
money
September
October

Any questions please ask.

Many thanks

Mr Lewis

Numeracy

This weeks numeracy is focussing on shape and position. Please revise relevant vocabulary such as:
above
below
in between
next to
beside
left
right
forwards
backwards.

Many thanks

Mr Lewis

In this week's spellings we have been looking at the /or/ sound (as on fork). This sound can be written in the following ways :

or, au, a, aw

Here are this weeks words:

fork
talk
saw
walk
august
sauce
these
three
there ("There are some cats.")
their ("Their house was by the beach.")

This Week's Get Set Go.

There is no work sheet for Get Set go this wee. However we have been practising using "Why...?" and "Because..." The Children enjoyed making funny questions and answering them. Keep practising at home :-)

Maths revision

This week we have been looking closely at number bond in order to use them to work out more complicated problems. We have focussed on how

1+9=10 so... 10-9=1 and 10-1=9 and so on.

They can use this strategy for other number bonds. For example

3+4=7 so... 7-4=3 and 7-3=4

Its important for your child to understand the relationship between these number facts.

Keep practising! :-)

This weeks spellings!!!

shout
owl
mouth
clown
out
mouse
found
now
cloud
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Literacy Week beginning 01.02.10

In this weeks Literacy we are looking at the long vowel sound /ue/. (pronounced the same way as a spanish /u/).  spellings: cube, news, argue, few, refuse, than first water been call

We will also revise the short vowels sounds 

a (short), ay, ai, ae, a_e

e(short), ee, ea, e_e

i(short), ie, i_e, y, igh

o(short),oa, ow, o (long)

u(short), ue, ew, u_e, oo.

Any questions please ask.

Many thanks Mr Lewis 

Numeracy Week Beginning 01.02.10

In this weeks numeracy we will be learning how to add and take away numbers that are not a 10. For example for 23+ 12 = the children will learn to use a number square to jump 10 (i.e. move down a space) and count 2 (right 2 spaces) landing on the answer, 35. Similarly adding 23 would be jump 20 (move  down two spaces) and count 3 (answer 46).

Children need to recognise that 12 is made up of a 10 and 2 units. They have done this before but may need some reminding.

Later in the week we will be looking at 3D shapes and examining the shapes made when we flatten out boxes into a net. If you want to practice this at home this would be useful.

Any questions please ask.

Many thanks.

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Mr Lewis