Mrs Lawry and Mrs Smith

PE Days - Tuesday and Thursday
Library Books - Tuesday

 

Home Learning:

Reading (10 minutes per day) - Just a few pages and a discussion about what you have read. See the Bloom's questions in your reading record (or at the bottom of the page) to help with ideas. 

Spelling (10 minutes per week) - Please complete the Week 3 spelling activities on Purple Mash or Spelling Shed.  Your login details can be found in your Reading Record books.

Maths games (10 minutes per week) - This week we have started our new unit on Multiplication and Division.  Help your child practise their 2, 5 and 10 times tables in readiness for this unit.  You could play some games on Purple Mash by loggin on and going to Mathematics - Number - Multiplication and Division - Age 5-7.

 

Class Reader

Our Guided Reading story for this week was 'The Koala Who Could' by Rachel Bright and Jim Field.

Ask your child about the story.  BLOOMS QUESTION

 

Picture News

A Taste of our Learning

Stop, Wait, Walk - a visit from the British Transport Police

How to be a Rockstar! 

Today we learned how to be a rockstar by looking at the life of Elton John!  Did you know he started playing the piano by ear when he was just 3 years old?  

He also helped to write the music for the film ‘The Lion King’.  As a class we watched a clip of ‘Hakuna Matata’ and used this motto of ‘no worries’ to write some advice for children who were in tricky situations.  Year 2 were amazing at thinking of ways to support those in need and how to make things all ok again.

We also designed our own pair of Elton John glasses in celebration of his dazzling outfits and of our uniqueness!

Christmas Activities

Nativity

6th December

When someone is feeling left out

In PHSE this week we have been thinking about how it feels to be part of a group, and how it feels to be left out. We all experience both of these things at different times and the children showed great empathy when discussing what we could do if someone is feeling lonely or upset. They each made a puzzle piece with a suggestion for how we could help others to be included, which we then put together to create a class jigsaw.

Algorithms

In Computing this half term we are learning about algorithms. An algorithm is a set of detailed instructions that has to be followed in an exact order. On a computer, an algorithm is called a code, or computer program. We have been learning how to create algorithms on Purple Mash to fly planes and turn princesses into monkeys!

Change and Continuity

Materials

Halloween Yoga

In PE this week we rounded off our half-term with some Halloween Yoga! The children used many of the shapes that they've been learning in Gymnastics over the last few weeks.

Making sandwiches!

Cutting in DT

Flip Flap Pets

We have been studying the story of Flip Flap pets in English over the past 2 weeks and have really enjoyed all the crazy combinations that we could come up with! To finish our unit, we have been designing our own pets and writing descriptions of them using expanded noun phrases, verbs, and adverbs to add depth to our writing. We even had a go at editing our own work, checking for capital letters, word usage, punctuation, and spelling.

Where does our food come from?

In Geography this week we have been thinking about bananas! We learnt that they need lots of sunshine, water, and heat in order to grow. We then used a climate map to find where in the world might be a good place for banana plantations and mapped the data to compare the climate in the UK and Costa Rica to check which country would grow the best bananas.

Calculating intervals on a number line

In Maths this week we have begun to investigate number lines. We have learnt that the intervals on a number line can represent different amounts - for example, some number lines go up in 1s, and others in 10s. They can also start at different numbers, so it is important to check the start and end of number lines before using them. Using this information, we worked out what numbers were missing, including on a human number line made up of children in our class! 

Are older people taller?

We began our science topic this week by talking about how animals change during their lifetimes. Mrs Lawry set us the challenge of investigating whether the older members of our class were the tallest. We began by measuring our heights and saying which month our birthday was in. Using this information we created a bar chart. We found that generally the older members of our class were taller but that there were some exceptions to this too. We all grow at our own pace but will get taller as we get older.

Class Charter and Successful Learner

It has been lovely to welcome the children back to class this week. As we prepare for a wonderful year ahead, we have been thinking about the type of learner we want to be, and the type of classroom we want to create. After discussing the UNCRC's Articles on the Rights of the Child, we selected the ones that we felt were most relevant and used them to create a class charter that we all signed up to.

   

We also created a display to show the Learning Behaviours that will set us up for success in Y2: