Autumn Week 10: Anti-bullying and Children in Need

 

Hello Class 2 Parents,

We started the week by wearing odd socks and talking about bullying - but really, what we were talking about was kindness and how to be kind. The children made a fantastic anti-bullying/kindness graffiti wall to go up in our classroom.

The main event this week has been starting read-throughs of our nativity. Your child will come home with their words to learn this weekend - please help them to learn to say them loudly, slowly and with expression. Narrators don't have to learn their words by heart but do need also to read them loudly, slowly and with expression!

Our Lost and Found story continued with designing some bear treats to keep our polar bear happy during the journey to the Arctic. The children looked at some dog treats, guinea pig treats and bird fat balls to get some ideas, then designed their own polar bear treat. They used ipads to research how to make home made dog treats (because googling how to make treats for bears didn't get us far!) and came up with a list of ingredients. Next week we will attempt to make them!

In other learning:

The phonics group have learnt two new graphemes this week: wh and ph, as in wheel and photo. Their spellings are here. 

The spellings group have learnt yet more 'l' endings:  -al and -il. These are rare - if children are taking a guess,  -le and -el are much more common! We tried to create two memory sentences to help with the spellings, though they are a little long and quite odd!

A pupil with one nostril used a fossil instead of a pencil. 

A metal animal lived in the capital and liked to pedal on a petal-covered bicycle. 

Their spellings are here. 

Year 1 maths:
The children have been continuing to learn different methods of addition, and to solve addition word problems. Their homework is to find the missing part of a part whole diagram - the best way is to find the number of counters to match the whole, move the correct number of counters into the part that is known, and then whatever is left is the missing part. 

Year 2 maths:
The children have moved onto subtraction this week. They have been subtracting across 10 by jumping back to the previous multiple of 10 first: so for 43 - 7, they jump back 3 to 40, then 4 more to 36. Their homework is here. 

Lots of confidence with numbers to 100 helps with Year 2 maths, so use a 100-grid like this one to support your child with addition and subtraction within 100. 

Have a lovely weekend!

From Mrs Simpson