What a super start to the week we have had!
In English we have been focusing on spelling Year 2 Common Exception Words. We have investigated rules and tricks for spelling the word 'Christmas'. We have begun an acrostic poem to help us apply these skills. One child suggested that,once the poems are finished, we could send them to Father Christmas!
In SPaG (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation), we have been reading and writing words with the word 'all' in e.g. fall, ball, hall. Then we have been adding suffixes to these words e.g. called, smallest, falling. We have also explored making compound words e.g. foot+ball= football
In Phonics the children have been learning the Phase 5 sounds, consonant blends (e.g. str, cl, mp) and reading longer words including lots of different sounds.
In Maths we have been relating multiplication to repeated addition e.g. 5 + 5 + 5= 15, 3 x 5=15.
The children have learnt different strategies to help them visualise and imagine what a the times tables means or looks like in real life e.g. 4 x 5= 20 could be 4 five pence coins being worth 20p in total.
A slip will be coming home to ask you to bring in a shoe box for your child's DT project.
Please come and see us if you have any questions.
Our topic work this week will be based on Wednesday's trip to Time & Tide museum. We are sure your child will tell you all about it!
Just to remind you that we return from our trip at about 3.15. To ensure that the children are returned to you safely, we will dismiss them from Miss Tovell's classroom upon our return.
Tuesday 21 November 2017
Friday 17 November 2017
Today we have been busy designing our own nightlights by bringing together lots of the skills we have learnt in our topic work. Your child will need to bring in a shoe box for their project soon. We will send a slip of paper home with all the details on, but basically, they need a shoe box please!
In English we looked at the basic elements of a story structure and challenged the children to write their own stories. They were allowed to choose the character and setting.
In Maths we have been looking at place value as a tool to help us add and subtract. The children use equipment called Base 10 in class. It is made of rods of 10 and single cubes. We have looked at how to draw "chips and peas" to represent the ten rods and ones. This is a powerful tool to have and we will be doing lots of practising in class.
Have a lovely weekend,
The Year 2 Team x
In English we looked at the basic elements of a story structure and challenged the children to write their own stories. They were allowed to choose the character and setting.
In Maths we have been looking at place value as a tool to help us add and subtract. The children use equipment called Base 10 in class. It is made of rods of 10 and single cubes. We have looked at how to draw "chips and peas" to represent the ten rods and ones. This is a powerful tool to have and we will be doing lots of practising in class.
Have a lovely weekend,
The Year 2 Team x
Tuesday 7 November 2017
This week in English we have been developing our vocabulary skills by describing fireworks. Two children managed to think of similes! One was "orange as a volcano" and the other idea was "as white as a snowflake". We have been describing fireworks by using colour words for our adjectives e.g. turquoise, lilac, neon yellow, cobalt. (Those were all ideas from the children!)
Next we thought about using onomatopoeia to help us describe how the fireworks look, sound and move. The children were amazing and came up with wonderful ideas. Why not ask your child what ideas they thought of?
In Maths we have been practising our place value skills by working with tens and ones, and using the signs < > and = to compare the numbers. We have looked at not being tricked by numbers with the same digits e.g. 12 and 21.
Last week in Topic we learnt about the life of Guy Fawkes and some of the events of the Gunpowder Plot. We will continue to work on these skills this week by creating a timeline, deciding if Guy Fawkes was a hero or a villain, and sketching Guy Fawkes.
We have been thinking about why some people choose to wear poppies and why. We watched the very poignant film:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04p4zsl
It provoked some thoughtful but age appropriate discussuions.
Mrs R & Miss Tovell have enjoyed seeing your ideas and activities in your home learning books as they come back. Remember to read at least 5 times a week!
If you're looking for something extra to do at home...
why not use coloured pens to practise writing colour words?
or...
keep learning those timestables
or...
make sure that you recognise all the numbers to 20, then 30 then 50 then 100
or...
anything else that will make your learning brain bigger!
Next we thought about using onomatopoeia to help us describe how the fireworks look, sound and move. The children were amazing and came up with wonderful ideas. Why not ask your child what ideas they thought of?
In Maths we have been practising our place value skills by working with tens and ones, and using the signs < > and = to compare the numbers. We have looked at not being tricked by numbers with the same digits e.g. 12 and 21.
Last week in Topic we learnt about the life of Guy Fawkes and some of the events of the Gunpowder Plot. We will continue to work on these skills this week by creating a timeline, deciding if Guy Fawkes was a hero or a villain, and sketching Guy Fawkes.
We have been thinking about why some people choose to wear poppies and why. We watched the very poignant film:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04p4zsl
It provoked some thoughtful but age appropriate discussuions.
Mrs R & Miss Tovell have enjoyed seeing your ideas and activities in your home learning books as they come back. Remember to read at least 5 times a week!
If you're looking for something extra to do at home...
why not use coloured pens to practise writing colour words?
or...
keep learning those timestables
or...
make sure that you recognise all the numbers to 20, then 30 then 50 then 100
or...
anything else that will make your learning brain bigger!
Friday 3 November 2017
week commencing 30th November 2017
This week the children have been learning about the Gunpowder Plot, Bonfire Night and Guy Fawkes.
We have started introducing more comprehension activities in class so that the children understand that the text they read has a meaning and learn how to to look for the answers in their reading.
The children have been learning about the purpose of adjectives, nouns and verbs in sentence structures and have created simple firework poems to apply this knowledge.
Gold - sparklers - fizzing
Blue - catherine wheel - spinning
(adjective - noun - verb)
In maths we have been adding 10 to any given number and recognising that although the 'tens' number changes the 'ones' in the answer remain the same because of the zero.
3 + 10 = 13
13 + 10 = 23
We took the verbs from our English work into PE and used our bodies to created the movements as we became human fireworks. Ask your child to show them how fireworks zoom, twirl, spiral, explode and pop!
Homework starts again this week - there will be a discussion activity each week as well as the challenge to read school books five time a week. Look out for the reading menu in the front of the children's homework books this week.
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