This week some children have been bringing in their favourite fiction and non-fiction books from home to be read and shared with the rest of the class. It has been so nice to see so many tastes and interests when it comes to their preferred literature. We are going to have a comic corner in class too, so if you have any old ones which you don’t mind your child keeping in class we would be very grateful if you could bring them in.
In English the children have read new story books in RWI which have been very appealing to them. Some have been linked to what the children might want to be when they are older, some have read about pirates and fish on the high seas and others have had a story about a scruffy teddy. Something for everybody there! The writing which followed was very thoughtful, inventive and well presented. Towards the end of the week the children have been sending postcards back to a far- away planet where their alien character Beegu came from in their class story. They focused on linking words, descriptions and presentation.
In maths the children have looked at numbers up to 50 when doing place value. They have been identifying, representing and solving problems involving bigger numbers and have looked at in depth what the number is actually made up of. They also looked at how they could represent the number in different ways using. The children have looked at counting in 10’s and 1’s in order to make it easier for themselves when counting and have used apparatus like 10 frames to make the idea more concrete. The children have done some mental maths assessments and have also done some practise with their 10 times tables. They finished off the week looking at 1 more and 1 less than numbers up to 50 and how they could record it.
In science the children did a sorting investigation looking at what animals eat and how we can class them as either herbivore, carnivore or omnivore.
In topic we made a Class 2 museum of all of the Victorian artefacts we had and had a history detective afternoon where we put forward ideas as to what we thought certain artefacts were and what they might have been used for based on what their appearance alongside clues. Then the children were able to handle and use the items in role and then learned more about the artefacts from their museum guide Mr Mavin.
The new spelling lists have gone out today along with Class 2’s new homework project which is in their green homework books.
A massive well done to all of the children in Class 2, especially Jack this week who achieved the star of the week trophy for producing some well thought out work in all of his lessons.
Class 2’s PE slot for next term has changed. It will now be on a Wednesday instead of a Monday and also on a Friday.
I hope that you have a lovely half term break together and I look forward to seeing you all soon!
Mr Mavin