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Homework for the children of Hazel Class

7 years ago
Posted on 22nd Jun 2018 by

Class 2 Weekly Update

English: This week in English we have continued to practise using the suffixes ‘s’ and ‘es’ and the prefix ‘un’ to change the meaning of words. Yesterday the children made clay monsters to link with our story ‘Not Now, Bernard’ and today we will be writing instructions on how we made our clay monsters. They did a fantastic job! There are lots of little artists in Class 2. I have attached the photos below.

Maths: We have moved onto telling the time this week. We began the week using language such as before and after e.g. I have a bath before I go to bed. I play outside after I have had my lunch. We then moved onto telling time to the hour and half hour.

Science: In Science the children went on a hunt around the school to identify different types of plant e.g. daisies, dandelions, clover, etc.

History: In history the children identified photographs of seaside holidays 100 years ago, 50 years ago and now. They then designed their own bathing suits for a 100 years ago, 50 years ago and today.

RE: The children learned about the Hindu creation story yesterday. They had part of the story given to them and had to draw pictures to reflect their part in the story.

Spellings: To be tested Friday 29th June 2018.

Spellings 22.6.18

Homework: We have been practising our reasoning and problem solving skills in Maths and I’d like the children to complete homework on this relating to our time work this week. They may need some adult support with this as we are still developing our skills. The sheet they have been provided with has a small space for them to explain their answers so please use the back of the sheet if needed. When the sheet says “Explain how you know”, please could you encourage your child to write a full sentence and avoid saying “because I looked carefully”. If you’d like to write any notes at the bottom of the sheet to indicate how much support your child needed – then please feel free to do so. Homework Due in: Friday 29th June 2018. 

Sports Day: Just a reminder that Sports Day is on Tuesday 26th June. The children were given a letter on Wednesday explaining which team they are in and which colour we would like them to wear.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Edwards

7 years ago
Posted on 25th May 2018 by

Class 2 Weekly Update

English: Red and Blue group have completed RWI activities. Green and Yellow group have been focusing on adding suffixes ‘ed’,’er’ and ‘ing’ to words. Yesterday the children had time to independently write about our trip to the Ice Cream Farm.

Maths: We have continued with place value this week, looking at how many tens and ones are in a two-digit number and using the more than, less than and equal too symbols to compare numbers.

Science: We have been describing a range of animals in Science this week and comparing them to each other and ourselves.

History: The children found out about steam trains in History and how these helped to make seaside holidays more popular in the past.

Homework: The children have been given two pieces of homework to complete over the holidays. Maths homework is placing numbers on a number line and identifying one more and one less than a given number. English is a story starter, “We were walking in the woods, when we heard a…” I’ve asked the children to write an exciting story to go with this starter, remembering to use punctuation, adjectives, conjunctions (and, but and because) and to remember to use their beautiful handwriting. If your child would like to write more than the given lines, then additional paper can be added to their homework. Homework is due in Friday 8th June 2018.

English 25.5.18

Maths 25.5.18

Spellings: To be tested on Friday 8th June 2018.

Spellings 25.5.18

Have a great holiday!

Miss Edwards

 

7 years ago
Posted on 29th Mar 2018 by

Class 2 Weekly Update

English: We have continued with Read Write Inc this week. The children have been encouraged to stop and check their work regularly to make sure they have included the correct punctuation, they are trying their best with their handwriting at that their writing makes sense.

Maths: The children have continued with measurement this week, concentrating on weighing different objects. They have been using balancing scales to say statements such as “a water bottle weighs the same as 35 cubes”. We have weighed objects with non-standard units only.

Science: In Science this week, the children were excited to write their own alternative version of The Three Little Pigs. They were asked to include different materials for the houses and include adjectives describing their properties.

RE: In RE the children listened to and sequenced the Easter story, some children were challenged to write sentences about what was happening at different stages of the story.

Spellings: Spellings were given out last week to be tested on Friday 20th April 2018.

Homework: Miss Melville has given the children a piece of Maths homework to complete over the Easter holidays on measuring and Miss Neal has provided the children with some English homework about the Easter Bunny. Please could this be handed in on or before Friday 20th April 2018.

Easter Maths homework

Easter English homework

Thank you for your hard work this term Class 2 and I hope you all have a love Easter holiday!

Miss Edwards, Miss Melville and Miss Neal

 

7 years ago
Posted on 16th Feb 2018 by

Class 2 Weekly Update

English: In English this week we have been planning our own story based on ‘Beegu’. The children planned their story using story mountains and answering questions about their characters and the setting. They have written a draft version of their story, edited to improve it further and today have written their story in best – with some children earning a ‘pen licence’ and writing their story with a handwriting pen!

Maths: We have moved onto Place Value this week. The children have been learning to represent numbers in a range of different ways using base 10, ten frames and numicon. For example the number 32 can be represented as 3 tens and 2 ones.

Science: The children were experimenting with materials this week in Science. We met Ted who got wet at break time because he didn’t have an umbrella. The children made predictions, guessing which material would be best for an umbrella, then it was their job to test lots of materials to decide which would be best to make Ted his own umbrella.

Geography: In Geography, the children were given a picture of a jungle scene. We discussed what we could see and imagined what it would be like if we were stood in the middle of the jungle. The children used their senses and have written a lovely piece, describing their surroundings.

RE: The children have written their own prayers, inspired by everything they are thankful for.

Art: We looked at lots of natural objects on Tuesday e.g. shells, sticks, conkers, pine cones, etc. We then drew these in detailed sketches with a pencil.

Spellings: To be tested on Friday 2nd March 2018.

Spellings 16.2.18

Homework: The children are coming home with a piece of English homework – using ‘and’ to join two simple sentences and a piece of Maths homework – Counting in tens. This is due back on Friday 2nd March 2018.

English        Maths

Have a great half term!

Miss Edwards

 

7 years ago
Posted on 26th Jan 2018 by

Science Material Homework

Dear Parents and Carers,

In Class 2 we have started to learn about different materials such as metal, plastic and glass. We are now moving on to  what properties different materials have such as rough, smooth, shiny and soft. I would like the children to find any objects that have these properties in and around their house and draw and label pictures of their objects. We will talk about what they have found next week.

Homework due Friday 2nd February 2018.

Science Homework

Thank you for your support,
Miss Roberts

7 years ago
Posted on 13th Jan 2018 by

Class 2 weekly update

English: The children have continued in their groups with Read Write Inc this week. Green group and Yellow group have worked on their new books with lots of lovely discussions taking place whilst Blue and Red group have been thinking about our topic Rainforests. They have worked with Miss Roberts to describe a rain forest setting and created a poem linked to our topic. Thursday and Friday English lessons were based on our new class story Beegu. The children were encouraged to write a set of instructions, explaining how to make a jam sandwich as Beegu wanted to have a picnic!

Maths: The children have been developing their addition skills this week. They have been looking in depth at the part-whole model, e.g. if 5 is the whole number, what could the parts be? 4 + 1, 3 + 2, 5 + 0, etc. They have completed these models with numbers up to 10 using equipment or drawing the model to support them. The children have also discovered that addition is commutative (it can be completed in any order) and some children have completed problems and explained their reasoning to give themselves an additional challenge.

Geography: In Geography we imagined that we were in a jungle and came up with different scenarios. The children then role played these scenarios in a group and performed them to the class. They were then challenged to draw their journey in the jungle and write a sentence explaining what they saw on their adventure.

RE: In RE the children have continued with our topic Gospel – What is the good news Jesus brings? We discussed how Jesus chose 12 men to be his world-changers, but they were not who people might expect. They had to think of some qualities for world-changers e.g. strong, kind, clever, helpful, good at sharing, etc and decide who they would choose as their world-changers.

Computing: Computing this week, saw the children experimenting with the touch pad on a laptop. They were using a program to design their own house, using the touch pad to drag and drop different items such as a door, window, fence, etc. They made some beautiful houses!

Spellings: To be tested on Friday 19th January 2018.

Spellings 12.1.18

Homework: The children were given a piece of handwriting homework to complete and return on Friday 19th January 2018. Green group were focussing on forming their letters correctly using the lines to support them. Blue group are focussing on forming their letters of a consistent size using the sun, boat and water to support them. Yellow and Red group are to practise their leaders and descenders, making sure they take care to stay on the line. I have attached the Read Write Inc guidance for handwriting below (please see Handwriting 1b to support with sun, boat and water letter formation).

RWI Handwriting Guidance

Nativity: Thank you for your support with the Nativity on Friday morning and Monday evening. The children did a fantastic job and made me very proud!

If you have any questions about the homework this week, please do not hesitate in coming to see me!

Miss Edwards

 

7 years ago
Posted on 20th Oct 2017 by

Class 2 weekly update

I’d just like to say a huge “WELL DONE!” to Class 2 for their performance in Celebration Assembly this morning.

This week in…

English: Red group have been reading the Orange RWI book called ‘Playday’ and answering questions and writing exciting sentences about their book. Blue group have been reading the Green RWI book called ‘The Web’, they have also enjoyed writing interesting sentences about their book. Green and Yellow group have been independently writing this week about our class story Captain Beastlie’s Pirate Party.

Maths: This week the children have been practising counting in twos. We have read the story ‘Noah’s Ark’ and acted out the story in the hall. The children were placed into partners and given an animal to act out, they they counted as a whole class using their counting in two skills.

Science: We had lots of fun in Science this week, luckily it was a lovely, sunny day so we went outside to look at our shadows. We played shadow ‘tag’, drew around each other’s shadows and then made shadow puppets.

History: The children looked at entertainment in the past in our History lesson and watched a Punch and Judy show. We then made our own puppet shows using the wooden spoon puppets we made in a previous lesson and hand puppets.

RE: The children listened to the story of Moses in RE and recognised that he was an important leader for Jews. They then ordered the story and reflected on who they thought was an important leader for them.

Spellings: To be tested on Friday 3rd November.

Spellings 20.10.17

Homework: The children have been given homework for half term. One side of the page is Science homework – the children are to colour in the light sources on their page at night time and day time. The other side of their page is Maths homework – the children are counting in twos and filling in the missing Autumn leaves. Please could homework be returned on Friday 3rd November.

Science and Maths homework 20.10.17

Have a great half term!

Miss Edwards

 

7 years ago
Posted on 06th Oct 2017 by

Class 2 Weekly update

English: In English this week we have continued to read our story books through Read Write Inc (RWI) and also looked in detail at using capital letters for names of people and places. Today the children had the opportunity to independently write about different characters. They were encouraged to use lots of adjectives in their sentences to make their writing interesting.

Maths: We have started subtraction this week and have looked at finding one less than a given number. The children have used lots of equipment to help support them with their taking away. They are getting confident with recording neatly in their maths books on squared paper.

Science: In Science the children learned about how the different seasons affect animals. We looked at robins closely and how they adapt to each season. We also discussed how some animals, such as hedgehogs, hibernate in the winter months and what this means.

History: The children had a fun, practical history lesson yesterday. They looked at a range of different materials and discussed how different toys are made from various materials. They then decided which materials their toys are made from and what they used to be made from in the past. The children then had lots of fun making wooden spoon puppets (photos of these below).

Spellings: Spellings to be tested Friday 13th October. Please be aware that some spellings may be repeated occasionally as I link the spellings with what they have been learning in RWI.

Spellings 6.10.17

Homework: The children are coming home with a piece of Maths homework this week focusing on one more and one less than a given number. Please feel free to write any notes on their homework about the amount of support needed. Homework is due in on Friday 13th October.

Circles/Squares: squares and circles 1 more 1 less homework

Triangles/Cuboids: cuboids and triangles 1 more 1 less homework 

Have a lovely weekend 🙂

Miss Edwards

 

7 years ago
Posted on 15th Sep 2017 by

Class 2 Weekly Update

English – In English this week we have been focusing on the sounds s, d, igh and ow. We have continued to learn about the importance of capital letters and full stops in sentences and the children finished the week having a go at writing independently after watching a short video called ‘bubbles’.

Maths – We have continued place value and number recognition this week. The children have represented numbers in a range of different ways and had a go at their first arithmetic test. I was very impressed!

Science – The children made posters about different weathers in Science. They were put into partners and worked together to discuss the clothes they’d wear, activities they would do depending on the weather and how it would make them feel.

History – In History, we shared our findings from talking to older people at home and lots of children enjoyed talking about what they had found out. We then looked at lots of old toys and picked our favourite ones to draw and write descriptive sentences.

Art – Today we enjoyed looking at the artist Piet Mondrian. We then re created a piece of his art and made our own collages using the primary colours red, yellow and blue.

Spellings – Well done to all of the children for completing their first spelling test today and thank you for supporting the children with learning these. You can see their test in the back of their spelling book. New spellings to learn for next Friday are stuck in at the front of their books.

Spellings 15.9.17

Homework – The children have been given a piece of homework today on capital letters to link to our work in class. If they could complete and return this by Friday 22nd September please. On the back of their sheet is an additional piece on full stops. Please start with the capital letters and if you feel your child needs an additional challenge they can complete the work on full stops. Please feel free to write notes on the homework to allow me to see how much support your child needed in completing this.

capital letters and full stops homework

Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards