This week's objectives - 19th of November

Hi! This week is week 1 of CAL 2. For this week, as an IPC homework children need to bring in to school an empty shoe box and 5 tooth-picks; they have all week to bring these in. As a suggestion, when they bring home their Spelling notebook to do their homework, children should copy the words for each week in a separate notebook that way they will be able to study every day.

Objectives for this week:

ENGLISH:

·  Spelling: long vowel sounds "ai" and "ay" (children should copy words every week in a different notebook at home to study during the week)

·  To be able to use commas in a list

·  To be able to brainstorm words for a Shape Poem

·  To make lines for a Shape Poem

·  To improve a piece of writing

MATHS:

·  Mental Maths: counting in 10's and 100's

·  Estimate up to about 100 objects

·  Round any two-digit numbers to the nearest 10

·  Explain how the digits in a number change when counting in 10's or 100's

·  Add or subtract pairs of two-digit numbers

SCIENCE:

·  To understand what fair testing is

·  To know what a variable is

·  To prepare an effective investigation

IPC:

·  Homework for this week: 1 empty shoe box and 5 tooth-picks

·  To know what a dinosaur is

·  To know animals alive today that are related to dinosaurs

·  To know how to collect and present data using tables and graphs