English

This week we have discussed the importance of an introduction to stories and recounts and how they make the reader want to carry on reading. The children have practised writing their own introductions to a recount about a time they wish to share. We also recapped on the use of conjunctions to extend sentences.

Maths

Year 1: Recognising number bonds to 8 and 9 and learning how to double numbers.

Year 2: Using number facts to add and subtract and adding a single digit number to a two digit number, using 100 squares and number lines.

Phonics

Year 1: Exploring alternative pronunciation of the ‘i’ grapheme e.g. tin and mild, alternative pronunciation of the ‘o’ grapheme e.g. hot and don’t and alternative pronunciation of the ‘g’ grapheme e.g. gap and germ.

Year 2: Exploring words ending in ‘tion’ e.g. action and looking at words ending in ‘le’ e.g. kettle.

Science

The children investigated objects around the classroom that needed to be pushed or pulled to make them move. They then drew their findings and labelled and described them.

History

The children were shown two types of castles this week – motte and bailey castles made from wood and keep and bailey castles made from stone. They looked at the differences and discussed which would be easier to build and which would be easier to defend.

Spellings

Spellings to be tested Friday 27th January 2017.

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Have a good weekend

Miss Edwards

English

This week in English, Class 2 have continued to look at recounts. We have read the story ‘Oh no, George’ and discussed how to change it from present tense to past tense, recapped on using exclamation marks and began to plan our own recount of our holidays.

Maths

Year 1: Have been finding one more and one less than a number and recapped on number bonds to 10 and 20.

Year 2: Have been using number facts and place value to solve problems.

Science

This week the children explored a range of different toys and objects, whilst they were playing they were encouraged to say whether the toy/object needed to be pushed or pulled to make it move.

History

After an introduction to our topic ‘Castles’ last week, this week the children have been finding out who built the first castles in the UK and why they built them.

Spellings

To be tested Friday 20^th January 2017.

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Have a good weekend

Miss Edwards

This week in…

English.

The children have been working on their grammar to improve independent writing.

Year 1 – have been joining words and clauses using ‘and’, putting sentences into the correct sequence and learning how to use a capital letter for the personal pronoun ‘I’.

Year 2 – have been recapping on expanded noun phrases, using the suffix ‘ly’ to change adjectives into adverbs and learning how to use subordinating conjunctions ‘when’, ‘if’, ‘that’ and ‘because’.

Maths.

We have continued to look at shapes but this week we moved onto 3D shapes from 2D.

Year 1 – have learned how to recognise and name common 3D shapes (cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders and cones).

Year 2 – have been naming 3D shapes in everyday objects, sorting the shapes into given groups e.g. shapes with/without curved faces and identifying 3D shape properties (edges, faces and vertices).

Phonics.

Year 1 – phase 3 ‘ure’ and ‘er’ phoneme and phase 5 ‘ay’ phoneme.

Year 2 – adding ‘ing’ and ‘ed’ to root words.

Science.

This week we were recognising and drawing food chains in a range of different habitats.

Nativity.

The children have enjoyed learning the songs for the Nativity this week, next week we will start rehearsals in the hall. Please could I remind parents to practise children’s lines a few minutes a night in preparation for our rehearsals. A costume letter will be given out at the beginning of next week.

Spellings.

Spellings to be tests Friday 25^th November 2016.

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Have a good weekend 🙂

Miss Edwards

English

This week in English, we have continued to look at poems and identified rhyming words in well-known nursery rhymes. We have also discussed what a syllable is and recognised how many syllables are in our name and listened for them in poems. The children also completed an independent piece of writing – they watched a short video clip about a boy going to space on a rocket and wrote a recount about what they had seen.

Maths

We have moved onto Geometry in maths and started to look at 2D shapes this week.

Year 1: Have sorted shapes into shapes with curved/without curved edges, labelled shapes with the correct name, sorted shapes into polygons/non-polygons and arranged shapes into triangles and rectangles.

Year 2: Have learned how to recognise a polygon, looked at irregular polygons and drawn and labelled polygons in their books. The children have also looked at how to make tessellating patterns using shapes.

Phonics

Year 1: ‘oi’ and ‘ow’ phonemes.

Year 2: The vowel phonemes spelt in different ways e.g. a, e, i, o, u, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo.

Science

This week the children have labelled plants and animals in different habitats e.g. the Desert, Arctic and Rainforest.

Geography

The children have learned about the Arctic Circle this week and looked at the 7 countries in the Arctic Circle.

Year 1: Drew and labelled the flags for the 7 countries.

Year 2: Matched the flags and country names and found the countries on a world map and coloured them in.

Purple Mash

Thank you for the support with the homework set during half term. The children seemed to really enjoy this task and I enjoyed reading all of their postcards.

Spellings

Spellings to be tested on Friday 11^th November 2016.

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Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards