Living and Learning – Me and my money

Our themed week was last week but visitors from HSBC couldn’t come last week. They came to talk to the year 1 and 2 classes about how trade, bartering and money has changed over time. They also talked to us about the value of notes.

Help at home by identifying and sorting coins and notes. Make different amounts in a variety of ways. How many ways can you make 10p?

Awesome adjective day!

We had a fabulous day learning about word classes today and, in particular, adjectives.

We all dressed up as an adjective, learnt a song about adjectives and made some interesting expanded noun phrases.

Help at home by talking about your favourite adjectives. Mrs Latham’s is discombobulated, Mr Goodwin’s is fabulous, Mrs Brown’s is bulbous and Miss Young’s is flabbergasted!

Adjective Day REMINDER – Tuesday 14 November

Remember to dress as an adjective tomorrow!

Adjective Day Tuesday 14 November

Dear parent/carer

After the success of the KS1 Adjective Day last year, we are doing it again. We are learning more about the functions of words. On Tuesday 14th November, we are going to have an ‘Adjective Day’. The children will be asked to come in to school dressed as an adjective. The adjective can be as simple or as adventurous as you like. Please ensure that your child is aware of the word meaning and feels confident in sharing this with the class. We have attached some pictures to inspire you or there are lots of ideas if you search ‘adjective dress up day’ on the internet.

Please do not go to the expensive of buying anything new and have fun creating your adjective outfit! Their outfit needs to be suitable for school, safe and warm enough for them to wear all day. (For 1A – easy to change in and out of for swimming too.)

Regards,

KS1 Term

Living and learning : Me and my money (themed week)

We have been talking all about money in our classes this week.

Where does money come from?

How do we keep it safe?

How can you earn money?

What is the difference between needs and wants?

When can we spend or save?

This book was useful in our discussions.

We have also been identifying, sorting and counting money in our maths lessons.

This game on the Top Marks website is great for learning about money.

20.10.23

This week’s spellings are ‘common exception’ words – words that don’t follow the usual spelling rule or pattern. We keep spellings for two weeks. On the first week, children need to read and write the word using the ‘look, say, cover, write, check’ method. On the second week, they can write them using rainbow writing. There are some more ideas here too.

 

 

Year 1

  • is
  • love
  • me
  • my
  • no

Year 2

  • school
  • she
  • so
  • some
  • the
  • there
  • their
  • they
  • to
  • today

Geography fieldwork – not on the field!

We had an exciting afternoon on Tuesday this week doing some field work in our locality. All classes went on a walk along Station Road identifying trees and counting how many were on our route. The variation of trees was not as wide as on our school field but the trees were much bigger. We looked carefully at a map to mark our route, the trees and a landmark (the shop).

Help at home by looking at the leaves, seeds or berries on different trees and trying to identify them. The Woodland Trust have some ways to help on their website. This guide could also help.