English: Blue group and Red group have worked within Read Write Inc groups Monday-Wednesday, whilst Green and Yellow group have worked independently on Little Red Riding Hood. These children have been writing questions to interview the Big Bad Wolf and then carrying out their interviews using the Ipads to record themselves. On Thursday (World Book Day), the children were introduced to our new story, ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’, we will focus on this story on Thursdays and Fridays. They began acting out the story and performing their presentation to the rest of the class, we then had a lovely Tiger Tea Party in the afternoon (photos to follow on Monday).

Maths: In Maths, the children have continued with place value and comparing numbers using the more than, less than and equal too symbols.

Science: The children investigated using magnets on Tuesday. They were challenged to find magnetic objects within the classroom and then had to draw and label these. On Thursday they decided that the Tiger in our new story does not have a very good diet as he eats everything! We designed a healthy, balanced meal for him and drew these ideas onto paper plates.

RE: Our question in RE, this half term is, ‘Why does Easter matter to Christians?’ The children began by thinking about Springtime and how we recognise signs of Spring. They then listened to the Easter story and discussed the sad and happy parts of the story.

Phonics: In phonics, we are now recapping on sounds as we have covered all of set 2 and 3 sounds in the Read Write Inc program. The children are now having phonics lessons focusing mainly on the spellings of different sounds and looking closely at real and nonsense words in preparation for the Phonics Screening test in June.

Spellings: We will complete our spelling test on Monday due to the snow day on Friday.

The new spellings for this week are to be tested on Friday 9th March 2018.

Spellings 2.3.18

I hope you have a lovely weekend and enjoy the snow!

Miss Edwards

English: Green and Yellow group have been doing RWI this week, whilst Blue and Red group have been writing as the Big Bad Wolf, they have written a letter to the Woodcutter apologising for trying to eat Little Red Riding Hood and writing questions to interview the Big Bad Wolf to get his side of the story. In Thursday’s lesson the children were learning how to write lists and wrote a list of all the places Beegu visited before finding her mum and dad. Today the children pretended to be Beegu and have written brilliant postcards to Beegu’s mum, informing her of their time on Planet Earth.

Maths: The children have continued with subtracting this week. They have been finding the difference between two numbers and using the inequality symbols (< > =) to complete number sentences.

Science: In Science, we were testing a range of materials to what properties they had e.g. were they bendy, not bendy, waterproof, not waterproof, opaque, transparent, etc.

Geography: We had a great time in the woods for our Geography lesson, identifying the features of a British Woodland. Today we compared our findings to that of a jungle/rain forest.

Computing: The children learned how to open applications such as Microsoft Word on the laptops this week and experimented with the program.

Spellings: To be tested Friday 16th February 2018.

Spellings 9.2.18

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: Blue and red group have been doing RWI this week with adult support. Green and Yellow group have been reading Little Red Riding Hood and acting out the story. They have completed story maps showing the main parts of the story and put the story into the correct order. On Thursday the children were writing invitations to Beegu asking her to a pretend picnic and today they have written an independent letter as Beegu, to the children in the playground saying thank you for being so kind to her when she was lost.

Maths: The children have been learning how to subtract in a range of different ways this week. They have been practising counting back, using equipment and counting backwards on a number line to support them.

Science: In Science the children were making posters about a chosen material and describing their properties. They were then challenged to write sentences to describe their materials and a partner had to guess which material they were describing.

Handwriting: The children have been focusing a lot on their handwriting in Class 2. We have been learning how to form our letters correctly (starting in the correct place), practising leaders and descenders to lead onto joining our writing later in the term and remembering to check that our capital letters are much bigger than lower case letters and tall letters are tall, etc.

Computing: In Computing the children were learning about the different features of a laptop and had to label a laptop with a partner. They have been learning how to turn a laptop on and off safely.

PE: The children have been enjoying gymnastics on Mondays and placing movements into different sequences. Mr Bebb has been very impressed on Friday afternoons with the children’s enthusiasm in PE.

Spellings: To be tested Friday 9th February 2018.

Spellings 2.2.18

We said goodbye to Miss Roberts yesterday who has been working with the children in Class 2 for the last half term. We wish her well in her next placement and with the rest of her PGCE!

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week Green and Yellow group have been reading our RWI books as part of a guided read. On Thursday the children worked together to imagine Beegu’s planet and describe it using lots of lovely adjectives, they were then asked to write interesting sentences to describe the planet. Today we enjoyed our session in the outdoors, making shelters for Beegu and her friends.

Maths: The children have continued with addition this week. They have developed their addition skills using the part-whole models and looked at counting on from a given number to find a missing number in an addition sentence.

Science: The children were identifying the differences between an object and the material that it was made from.

RE: This week, we were thinking of examples of how Christians put their beliefs into practise in the church community and their own lives e.g. charity, confession.

Geography: In Geography this week, the children have looked at cloud forests. They were writing an extended piece to describe a cloud forest from what they have learned.

Spellings: To be tested on Friday 2^nd February 2018.

Spellings 26.1.18

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards