Spring Week 5: Causes of the Great Fire

 Hello Class 2 Parents,

It's been an interesting and varied week in Class 2!

On Monday storyteller Chip Colquhoun came to school. He began with Class 2, telling us an alternative tale to St George and the Dragon. Photo to follow when I am reunited with the IPad. The children loved it - the story was funny and Chip is an incredibly engaging storyteller. We will do more work on St George on April 23rd, St George's Day. 

In our Mantle of the Expert story the children have been finding out more about the causes of the Great Fire of London. In our writing lessons they have been writing letters to King Charles II explaining what they have discovered. Excitingly, they were later summoned by the King to a meeting in the town square - he is looking for reliable Londoners to become volunteer firefighters, to ensure the Great Fire of London will never happen again. We'll keep you posted.

The children have had such a great week. This half term is flying by! They have really settled into life in Class 2 and I'm very proud of the work they have been doing. 

In maths:

Year 1 children have continued to work on place value and to look at numbers 20 to 50. They have been partitioning them into 10s and 1s, making and using number lines and talking about the relative position of numbers on the number line. Their homework is to complete this 100-grid jigsaw puzzle - it will be in their home learning books as usual!

Year 2 children have looked at odd and even numbers, and at the ten times table and related division facts. This week they have this puzzle to solve. 

The phonics children have finished off their split digraph learning with u_e (as in flute, tune, June) and have learnt that the letter 'c' can make a soft sound (as in face, ice, circle). Their spellings are here. and will be in their books. 

The spellings children have looked at words with 'all' in (all is an incredibly useful word to learn to spell; it's in so many other words) as well as the shorter 'al'. Their spellings are here and will be in their books. 


Have a good weekend. I am looking forward to catching up with you all next week!

Mrs Simpson