Badger and Otter Home Learning 28th April
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Keep up your mathematics time online!
Please remember to log on to Mathletics to help your child with their maths and quick number recall.
This week we have been learning how to multiply numbers by 2,5 and 10.
The children will be learning to draw and create arrays – they can practise these activities on mathletics so be sure to log on 🙂
The Enormous Turnip!
Here is the story we have been learning! Today Badgers went to Abacus to show the little ones our story!
Can your child tell you the story?
Once upon a time there was a little old man who grew an enormous turnip
Early one morning he decided to pull up the turnip to make turnip soup.
So, he pulled and he pulled and he pulled. But the turnip would not budge. Next he asked his wife, Sue to help.
So, Sue pulled the man and the man pulled the turnip. But still the turnip would not budge. Next he asked his son to help.
So, the son called Andrew pulled the woman and the woman pulled the man and the man pulled the turnip. But still the turnip would not budge. Next he asked his daughter to help.
So, the daughter, called Kate pulled the son and the son pulled the woman and the woman pulled the man and the little old man pulled the turnip. But still the turnip would not budge. Next he asked the smelly dog to help.
They pulled harder and harder, but the old man pulled the hardest.
Finally, the enormous turnip came flying out of the ground as fast as a rocket and they all fell down with a loud BANG!
After that they had spicy turnip soup for dinner, they put in carrots, onions and bunches of parsley, but the son and daughter were unhappy because it tasted disgusting!
First Day back…..
It was lovely to see all of the children with bright smiles and lots of excitement – thank you so much for keeping to the path and allowing us to develop our outdoor area this term.
Our visit to church was fabulous, the children remembered all the words to Spring Chicken and walked beautifully.
Today was the day of the enormous turnip.. did you see it?
The Enormous Turnip
This term, to link our written work with our IPC topic we will be reading the story of the Enormous Turnip. The children will learn the story off by heart through the T4W approach. They will then be learning to write in different forms and then create their own story. Let the children practise the story at home, can they make their own story map?
We will also be working hard towards our phonics screening assessments in June. Please look at the previous post about phonics in Year One and if you need any support or ideas how to help your child please let your class teacher know!
Welcome Back 🙂
Term 5 IPC Topic
This term we are going to be getting our fingers dirty!
We have prepared our outdoor area ready to welcome new life this Spring. We are excited to welcome our new topic.
Our science curriculum looks like this for Year 1/2:
Sc1/1 Working Scientifically
Sc1/1.1 asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways
Sc1/1.2 observing closely, using simple equipment
Sc1/1.3 performing simple tests
Sc1/1.4 identifying and classifying
Sc1/1.5 using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
Sc1/1.6 gathering and recording data to help in answering questions.
Sc1/2.1 Plants
Sc1/2.1a Identify and name a variety of common and wild garden plants including deciduous and evergreen trees
Sc1/2.1b identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees
Read the IPC letter : letter to parents IPC
Badger’s and Otter’s Trip to Pizza Express
We had a fabulous trip to Pizza Express in the last two weeks of term. Badgers and Otters were able to visit Pizza Express in Ashford, where the fabulous guys taught us how to make pizzas. We learnt how to stretch the dough using three fingers, then how the tomato sauce is made, finally we experimented with different cheese patterns. While our pizzas were being made we tasted different toppings that are used at Pizza Express, the children learnt facts about the toppings, as you can tell from the photos – some were more popular than others!!
Thanks so much Pizza Express 🙂
Pizza Express
Fantastic Phonics Fun!
Over Easter we would love you to support your children with their phonics and practise it everyday like we do in school.
Here are some websites that you might find useful, the children have to segment (sound out words) and then blend (say it altogether). There are real words and ‘alien’ words which are designed to see if the children can recognise the digraphs (like ai in rain). In school we encourage the children to put ‘sound buttons’ under the word so they take their time to segment and blend it.
Here you can see that the single sounds have a dot under them, and the digraphs ch, sh, ll have a line, this encourages the children to blend the words together.
Every day we are practising the phase 5 sounds with all children for 15 mins after lunch, this is in addition to their personalised phonics learning groups which range from phase 3-5
There is an older post on phonics if you scroll further down our Year One page which gives you detailed information about what phonics is and how we teach it.
Practise is the best way to support your child, they are working really hard on this in school and making excellent progress. We would love you to celebrate in their success and let them show you how fabulous your children are!
Here is a power point where you can give a few words each day to segment and blend. Phonics screening
This is a good website if you aren’t sure how you can support your child: https://blog.oxfordowl.co.uk/how-can-i-support-my-child-with-phonics-learning/
And this helps if you don’t know how we teach the sound in school! https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/expert-help/the-year-1-phonics-screening-check/home/reading-site/expert-help/phonics-made-easy
Here are some games:
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
We use phonics play in school so the children are used to the games, try and encourage them to use phase 5 sounds.
http://www.ictgames.com/foamPhonemes/index.html
http://www.ictgames.com/soundButtons/index.html
http://splash.abc.net.au/res/i/L7855/index.html
Science Week at St Nicholas Academy
We are proud to be taking part in Science Week, we have loved our activities this week and are really excited to be participating in the whole school. The week began with an introduction from EDF. They came to help us with our KS1 experiment to calculate wind speed using bubbles! The children learnt how to use equipment and measure distance, direction and time. They worked collaboratively and we were blessed by a small breeze and delightful sunshine.
Our english and maths this week has been linked to science too. We explored how much sugar was in different foods, as well as writing lots of instructional texts. We taught the bog baby how to brush his teeth and then learnt how to make toothpaste. We have followed instructions and found out how to measure ingredients carefully. Today we changed one of the ingredients to see what happens and found that red food colouring turns black when we put it with bicarbonate of soda – the children were confident about black toothpaste – the adults less so!
Have a look at us becoming chemists as we made our own toothpaste…
Week 4
This week we learnt how to count in 5’s by using a variety of different objects. We counted in 5’s and then practised making tally charts of the things we could find in the classroom. We explored how to share both objects and numbers, the children are now experts at being precise with their halves – just so the teachers don’t get more!
Google Expedition came to St Nic’s this week.. we explored the oceans, saw sharks and deep sea divers and were then transported into the rainforest where the children could get up close to gorillas! We loved the experience and the children were fantastic.
Our science topic this term is ‘We are what we eat’ this week we looked closely at our taste buds, we looked at them in our mouths and learnt that different areas of our tongues give us different tastes. We learnt how to predict in an experiment and then explored different tastes together. We tried limes, lemons, gherkins, coco, sugar, grapefruit, banana, crips and many more – some of the expressions were very entertaining 🙂
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