What a pleasure it was taking Class 2 to see Mother Goose at Theatre Severn the other day. Not only did the children have a fabulous time, they once again demonstrated impeccable behaviour outside of school.
In our English lessons we have been revisiting phoneme sounds and have applied these when blending them into more unfamiliar words. In RWI we have enjoyed reading our new stories, drawing on their own experiences and talking about what they have just read. Some of the children are being encouraged to use a storyteller voice too. We have also done some detective work whilst spotting alternative graphemes for specific sounds in short comic strip passages. Some have also attempted the initial joining of specific graphemes in their handwriting sessions. Today we have all incorporated Fred talking into our everyday classroom life when asking for certain objects or things during routine. We have also learned how to add the suffix ‘ing’ to make a new words from a root word and then we added the word within our own sentence. We based our words and sentences on our experiences of what happened at the pantomime the day before.
In maths we have looked at the properties of both 2D and 3d shapes and how their shapes correspond to objects in the world around them. We have sorted them based on certain criteria during practical activities and have experimented with pattern linked to clues given on the shapes properties. We aim to link some of this maths work to a whole class piece of artwork next week for our classroom. We have also linked this to design and technology when discussing the shapes used for our Class 2 house model.
Our weekly spellings have gone out today to be tested next Friday. The children are reading to adults throughout the week and we have been so impressed with the enjoyment they are having reading to adults at home.
A big thank you to those who have helped their child learn their lines at home for our Christmas performance. They have remembered them really well when during our practises in Church. Please can we remind you that it would be ideal if your child could have their costumes in by Monday 10th December as stated in the letter which went home. On the letter it stated what your child is and what they would need to wear if they require a costume. Please do not hesitate to come and see me if you have any questions concerning this.
Have a lovely weekend together and I will see you all on Monday.
Mr Mavin

Class 2 have been practising for their Christmas performance in church this week and have been gearing up for the festive season together. There has been lots of talk about Santa (for November), so we have tried to take their minds off the big day with some almost equally exciting work!

The children are starting to practise reading real and nonsense words using sounds they have had a weekly focus on. This week we identified that the children needed to learn more about and practise using their split digraphs.  They have played phonics games, have done pre-cursive handwriting and have written words and sentences using them.

In RWI they have moved on to their new stories ‘Cluck’ and ‘Tim and Tom.’ Their reading has been delightful and they are taking real pleasure in spotting ‘special friends’ within their words. Special friends for the children are 2 or 3 letters together which make 1 sound in words.

In handwriting, the children have really tried their best to make their lower case letters the same height and size as each other. They have then demonstrated that they can apply this within their written pieces across the curriculum in their exercise books.  

In maths the children have been assessed on what they have consolidated in addition within 20 and have had practical tasks to show their abilities of subtracting using a given models and using resources. We have tried to explain how we have come to get an answer and to double check that we have counted objects or diagrams accurately.

Mr Mavin’s favourite story of the week has been Roald Dahl’s ‘The Magic Finger’ which has made us giggle. We are moving onto ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’ next week for some creative letter writing in role as a character.  After all, it will be December!

In geography, we have made a start at comparing our own location of Shrewsbury to that of a Polar region. We have a focus on various geographical features such as hills, buildings and bodies of water to consider and contrast.

Thank you again for practising spellings at home with your children. Please ask your children to show you where the special friends are in the word making the sound in which the spelling list focuses on. For example the special friends in the word fear would be ‘ear.’ There is space beside the weekly spelling list in order for it to be used by the child to look, write and then check their spellings. Thank you for continuing to support your children with this.

We have the pantomime next Thursday which we are all looking forward to. Oh no we’re not! Oh yes we are!

Have a lovely weekend together and see you next week.

Mr Mavin