Hello Class 2 Parents,
First: Salcey Forest Trip
Thank you to everyone who has filled out the survey. I am waiting on a few responses, but it does look like the trip can go ahead! Once I have everyone's responses, I will send out details during the first week - the trip will be on Thursday 3rd July.
It's been an interesting and varied week in Class 2!
As most of you will have seen, on Tuesday the whole school discovered and crime scene on the field. Someone had dumped a pile of rubbish. An emergency school meeting was held, and each class was given a different task to carry out. In class 2, the children examined some footprints left at the site. They had their suspicions as to who they belonged to, but realised that they needed to do more investigation to prove their theories.
They learnt how to take footprints by spraying water on the soles of shoes and pressing the shoe down onto paper. It took practice to get this right. Once they were confident, the children took their forensic footprint kits around the school, taking prints from each adult. They carefully took photographs of each print before it dried out.
Next, they examined the results and compared them to the original prints. Four suspects were identified. After lunch, the whole school gathered once more to share their findings (Class 1 were looking at a note written in invisible ink, Class 3 were learning about chromatography in order to analyse a note left at the scene, and Class 4 had the task of lifting and identifing fingerprints from the scene).
The culprit was identified, and Class 2 spent the afternoon creating cartoon characters to educate the culprit about how better to look after the world.
(see below for photos of forensic scientists at work).
In other news.
Writing:
The children have been planning and writing their own version of The Enormous Crocodile to add to their purple progress books - these are books started in Year 1 that demonstrate the progress children make in their writing. The children write in it around five times per academic year and they love seeing their progress.
Maths:
The children have continued their work on arrays, looking at making arrays for the 2, 5 and 10x table (for Year 1, counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and for Year 2 understanding the 'groups of ' symbol (x).
Weekly maths challenge - unfortunately due to a printer malfunction this week's maths challenge could not go ahead, but it will resume after half term!
Spellings:
As it is the end of half term, we have tested all of the children on their common exception word spelling. Please continue to help your child with theirs: the aim is for Year 1 to have finished lists 1 to 8 of 'Year 1' words by the end of the academic year, and for Year 2 to have finished those, pluse lists 1-8 of 'Year 2' words.
Our Story:
After a bit of a break (for the science day, and other things) we revisited our story. The children had to help Professor Rufus Johnson to pack for the trip to Kenya. We discussed the climate in Kenya and what might be suitable, as well as different items that might come in handy.
Your child has some books in their bag. Please read over the holidays - they are free choice books, so if they are too hard, just do lots of echo reading so that your child can copy your reading (but ensure that they are pointing to and looking at words while they do this!) and if they are quite easy, help your child to read with fluency and expression, and discuss the books.
Half term homework suggestions are here. As usual, they are all optional apart from the reading books!
Have a good week!
From
Mrs Simpson