English: To start with the children looked at more suffixes at the end of words e.g. er, ier and est. Then we have focussed on our senses and which parts of our bodies use the senses. The children then used their senses to describe a range of different settings for example, a beach, rainforest, waterfall and city.

Maths: This week the children have been multiplying. Year 1 have been learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s and used these skills to sequence numbers. Year 2 started the week using equipment to find answers to multiplication questions, then moved onto drawing pictures to support them and today they have been using their number facts to help them.

Science: We looked at metal and plastic in Science this week, the children discussed the use of each material and identified if they are bendy, strong, stretchy etc.

History: The children enjoyed looking at the artist Paul Klee in topic and how he used 2D shapes to make a painting of a castle. They then had a go at recreating his piece of art using 2D shapes and watercolour paints.

Spellings: To be tested 17.3.17

10.3.17 spellings

Have a great weekend 🙂

Miss Edwards

English

This week we have been thinking about newspaper reports. Linking to our class story ‘Funnybones’ the children imagined that they were in the story and have written newspaper reports about what they saw and heard the night the skeletons made lots of noise.

Maths

We have moved onto looking at capacity this week – the children have enjoyed measuring how much a container holds either using cupfuls (year 1) or millilitres and litres (year 2).

Science

The children have sorted materials using different criteria this week e.g. soft/hard, rough/smooth, transparent/not transparent, bendy/not bendy.

History

We have learned about who lives in castles this week and looked at the different jobs they do. The children enjoyed saying which job they’d have liked if they lived in the medieval times.

Phonics

Year 1: Alternative pronunciation of ‘y’, ‘ch’ and ‘ou’ grapheme.

Year 2: Homophones (words that sound the same but have a different spelling and different meaning).

Spellings

Spellings to be tested Friday 17th February 2017.

10.2.17 spellings

PE

It is the last session of tennis next Friday (17.2.17) – Please could the children come into school in their PE kits ready to start the session after registration, they may stay in their PE kits all day.

Have a good weekend

Miss Edwards

English

The children began the week looking at syllables and counting syllables in our story ‘funnybones’. Then we made a story map, discussing the events that happen in the story and placing them in the correct order.

Maths

This week we have continued with measurement but moved onto measuring weight. Year 1 have been measuring with non-standard units such as cubes and marbles and year 2 have been using grams to measure objects in a balance scale.

Phonics

Year 1: Alternative pronunciations of ‘ea’, ‘er’ and ‘a’ graphemes.

Year 2: Apostrophes for possession.

Science

In Science this week the children explored how wind makes things move. They had lots of fun outside with bubbles.

History

We looked at a range of different castles today (even Hogwarts from Harry Potter), then the children made castles from junk and did a fantastic job!

Spellings

Spellings to be tested 10.2.17

3.2.17 spellings

Have a good weekend 🙂

Miss Edwards

English

This week in English we started the story ‘Funnybones’ – the children have enjoyed listening to the story, rewriting the opening and role playing conversations between the skeletons.

Maths.

We have moved onto measures this week and have been focussing on measuring length. Year 1 have been measuring objects using non-standard units e.g. cubes and year 2 have been using cm and m to measure objects around the room. We have also been practising our estimating skills.

Please could year 2 continue to practise their times tables. I am sending home some more resources with the children tonight.

Science.

This week we have enjoyed discussing the effect Gravity has on objects – the children were given time to explore gravity with a bouncy ball in the hall. Then they drew pictures to show their findings.

History.

Continuing our topic on Castles, the children were shown pictures of a range of different castles in England. We discussed the different features of a castle e.g. drawbridge, portcullis, battlements, etc and then the children labelled pictures of castles with these features.

Spellings.

To be tested Friday 3rd February 2017.

27.1.17 spellings

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Edwards

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.

20.1.17 spellings

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.

13.1.17 spellings

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