Well done for a great first week back Class 2!

English: We have continued with Read Write Inc this week and some groups have been writing seaside poems independently. We have also started our new class book ‘Owl Babies’. The children have been acting out the story, discussing the owl’s feelings at different stages and sequencing the story.

Maths: The children have been counting in twos, fives and tens this week and grouping objects to find the answer to statements such as ‘how many lots of…?’ or ‘how many groups of…?

Science: We have started our new Science topic this week ‘Animals including humans’. The children began with drawing and labelling their body parts.

History: We have made a good start on our new topic ‘Seaside Holidays – past and present’. The children made seaside pictures out of a range of materials, researched different seaside animals in information books and watched a Punch and Judy show. They then had a go at performing their own puppet show in groups.

Art: We made seaside collages today. The children were brilliant at ripping up their different textured paper and placing them into a seaside scenery.

Spellings: Spellings to be tested Friday 27th April 2018.

Spellings 20.4.18

The children have been given a Forest School letter today and a letter about our class trip to the Cheshire Ice Cream Farm. Please come and see me if these did not make it home and I can give you another copy.

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: The children have continued with their RWI books Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and yesterday the children were thinking about where the tiger in our class story had come from. We decided he had escaped from the zoo! To help the zoo find him, the children were asked to make a missing poster including lots of details about the tiger.

Maths: In Maths this week, the children have been learning to measure using a ruler in centimetres. They have measure lots of objects and identified items that are shorter than 20cm and longer than 20cm. We then moved onto using a metre ruler, discussing that this is made up of 100cms and thinking about objects that are longer than 1m and shorter than 1m.

Geography: We have now finished our topic on Jungles and Rainforests and to show what the children can remember about their learning, they made little booklets including as much information as possible.

D & T: The children really enjoyed D&T on Tuesday. They tasted lots of different fruits and vegetables and discussed which was their favourite. I was very impressed with children trying new fruits and vegetables that they hadn’t tried before e.g. Mango, passion fruit, etc.

Spellings: Class 2 will be tested on their new spellings when we come back from the Easter holidays on Friday 20th April 2018.

Spellings 23.3.18

Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: As well as Read Write Inc at the beginning of the week, the children have been looking at non-fiction texts. They have been looking at information texts about tigers and finding out interesting facts. They have learned about the key features of a non-fiction text e.g. headings, sub-headings, pictures, labels and captions, etc and had a go at writing their own.

Maths: In Maths we have moved onto measuring and comparing lengths and heights. Today the children were using non-standard units to measure objects e.g. how many cubes long is this pencil? Whiteboard? etc.

Science: In Science the children had a lots of fun building The Three Little Pigs houses out of a range of different materials. They were given junk modelling, Lego, straw and sticks and had to make the houses working with a group. The children were encouraged to think about which was the best material due to its properties e.g. which was the strongest? Which was bendy? Which would withstand the wind? etc.

Geography: The children learned about the different layers of a rain forest this week and what we would find in each layer, e.g. in the Forest floor layer we would find leaf litter and animals such as beetles and other insects, in the Understory layer we would find shrubs and frogs and snakes, in the Canopy layer we would find tall trees and animals such as sloths and toucans and in the Emergent layer we would find the extremely tall trees and butterflys and Eagles.

D&T: Just a reminder that on Tuesday the children will be trying a variety of different fruits and vegetables. I have had a few slips back however if I do not hear back I will make the assumption that your child is OK to try all fruits and vegetables. Please let me know if there is anything your child cannot try by Monday. Thank you!

Spellings: To be tested Friday 23rd March 2018.

Spellings 16.3.18

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards

English: In English, Yellow group and Green group have been doing Read Write Inc. Red and Blue group have been working independently on Little Red Riding Hood. They have been describing characters and settings and using a story mountain to plan their own version of the story. Thursday and Fridays lessons have been looking in more depth at ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’. We noticed that the story has lots of apostrophes and looked at the difference between apostrophes for contraction and possessive apostrophes. This is very challenging work and the children have shown a very good understanding – Well done Class 2!

Maths: We have finished Place Value this week, ordering 3 numbers from smallest to largest and using the more than and less than symbols to compare them. We move onto measurement next week.

Science: In Science, the children were given different criteria to arrange materials e.g. rough, smooth, waterproof, not waterproof, transparent, opaque, soft and hard. They became detectives and walked around the school looking for materials that they could draw and label under each heading.

Geography: The children enjoyed looking at the artist Henri Rousseau in Geography this week. He paints jungle scenes which the children found very interesting. They had a go at creating their own versions of his jungle paintings, using watercolour paints. We have lots of little artists in Class 2!

D&T: We have started D&T by gathering data. On Tuesday the children had to make a tally chart of which fruit and vegetable was the most popular in Class 2. Once they had completed their tally charts, they made a pictograph to show their results.

Spellings: To be tested Friday 16th March 2018.

Spellings 9.3.18

Have a great weekend!

Miss Edwards

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

English: Blue and Red group have been reading their RWI books this week and completing work based on their stories. Green and Yellow group have worked independently writing poems and descriptive sentences about the Rain forest. Thursday and Fridays lessons were based on the story Beegu, we discussed Beegu’s feelings at different stages in the story and then we have written character descriptions.

Maths: In maths the children have continued to work on addition, looking at their bonds to 10 in more detail and later in the week we have focused on the greater than, less than and equal too symbols.

Science: The children began their Science topic this week ‘Everyday materials’ – they started with looking at a range of materials and began to describe them.

Geography: In Geography, we looked at Mangroves in Indonesia and the different features we see when looking at a Mangrove e.g. tidal water, high roots, animals and insects, etc.

PE: On Monday the children made their own gymnastic sequences and performed them to their peers. Today the children had Mr Bebb teaching them ball games.

Spellings: To be tested 26.1.18

Spellings 19.1.18

Next Friday: On Friday morning I’d like to take the children outside for English into the Forest School area to complete some activities on our class story ‘Beegu’. Please could the children bring warm, OLD clothing (we may get muddy), a waterproof coat, wellies/walking boots and their uniform to change back into later in the day.

Have a good weekend!

Miss Edwards