Spring Week 4: Stepping into London, 1666

 

Hello Class 2 Parents,

The main theme of this week has been writing! The children finished their wonderful mouse diaries (in role as mice while the Great Fire of London happens), and then wrote another diary independently in their purple books. The children complete a piece of completely independent writing around once per half term in their purple books, to show what they have been learning in writing. 

Aside from that, our new Mantle of the Expert story is taking shape. We read that lots of people had to leave London due to the fire, and that they set up camp on a hill overlooking London. The children stepped into the story at this point, setting up huts and tents and imagining what it would be like to have lost their homes. They then started to think about returning to London, and were asked: if you had a trade in 1600s London, what would it be?  This led to learning about some of the common trades in London. The children designed and made some Tudor shop signs to help them to take on their new role. The story will continue.

In maths:

Year 1 have been learning about place value in numbers to 50. They have been learning to represent numbers using 10s and 1s, to say how many 10s and 1s a number has, and to count in 10s and on in 1s. You can practise this using this game - lots of practice of counting in 10s and on in 1s is required. Select numbers up to 99. 

Year 2 have been looking at doubling and halving, or multiplying by two and dividing by two. They will have this sheet in their home learning books. 

In phonics and spellings:

The phonics group have continued with split digraphs: this week, i-e and o-e. Their spellings are here and will be in their purple books. 

The spellings group have learnt the double trouble rule when adding suffixes: to add a suffix to a short word, with a short vowel and a single consonant, the last letter must be doubled. They've also been looking at the Year 2 common exception words for spelling. Their spellings are here and will be in their purple books. 

Have a good week end!

From Mrs Simpson.