English: The children have been learning to spell common exception words (words spelt differently to how they sound) and use these in their writing. They have also learned about compound words (two words joined together) and included these in their independent writing. The children have written a letter as Bernard from our story, to his mum or dad telling them how they feel. Today we have written a sequel to the story ‘Not Now, Bernard’. The children came up with some fantastic ideas for how Bernard could escape from the monster!

Maths: We have continued with telling the time this week and practised more reasoning and problem solving questions.

History: The children were comparing seaside holidays in the past to seaside holidays now e.g. travel, activities, swim wear, etc.

RE: We were introduced to the creation story in different religions this week. The children then had to discuss their feelings about the creation story.

Spellings: To be tested on Friday 6th July 2018.

Spellings 29.6.18

Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week we have been thinking about adding suffixes ‘s’ and ‘es’ to the end of words to change things from singular to plural and adding the prefix ‘un’ to change the meaning of adjectives e.g. kind to unkind. Thursday and Friday we focused on ‘Not Now, Bernard’. The children  have written great book reviews about our class story and thought about who they would recommend the story to and also had time to write questions to the monster in the story, asking things they’d like to find out e.g. why did he make a mess in class 2? Why did he eat Bernard? Etc.

Maths:  We have been looking at measurement – money this week. We have been learning to recognise coins and identify the differences between each coin, e.g. some are round, bronze, silver, big, small, etc. The children have been problem solving and reasoning e.g. Laura thinks she has 17p in her purse. Is she correct? Explain how you know.

Science: The children really enjoyed planting their beans on Tuesday and then confidently wrote a set of instructions on how to plant a bean.

History: The children were looking at seaside photographs in their book and completed the senses grid with how the photograph makes them feel. They thought about what they would see, hear, smell, taste and touch if they were there.

PE: We have continued to practise our athletic skills, ready for Sports Day in a few weeks.

Phonics Screening: The children have all completed their screening test this week and should all be really proud of themselves for working so hard! The children’s results will be in their reports at the end of the year as we do not find out the pass mark for a few weeks. Thank you for all of your support with reading and revising at home.

Well done Class 2!

Spellings: To be tested Friday 22nd June 2018.

Spellings 15.6.18

Have a fantastic weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: This week we have started our new book, ‘Not Now, Bernard!’ The children have acted out the story and today have written character descriptions. Some children thought of adjectives to describe each character and made a mind map of their ideas, some have written sentences about their chosen character and some children have used sub-headings to sort their descriptions e.g. what they look like, their personality and behaviour.

Maths: The children have been introduced to position and direction this week. We have discussed lots of vocabulary to describe turns e.g. quarter turn, half turn, three quarter turn and whole turn. We have been describing where objects are using the vocabulary, above, below, in the middle, left, right, up and down.

Science: We have thought about Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores this week in Science and learned about the different animals that fall into each category.

PE: We have been practising hard for Sports Day in PE. We have been practising running races, egg and spoon race, bean bag race and the sack race.

Handwriting: We do a lot of handwriting practise in Class 2 and most children have now become confident in using leaders and descenders in their everyday writing. Some children are now joining their writing!

Spellings: To be tested Friday 15th June 2018.

Spellings 8.6.18

Phonics Screening: Year 1 children will be doing their phonics screening next week. Please encourage your children to practise their sounding out and blending in preparation for this and any reading during the weekend would be greatly appreciated!

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards