Hello Class 2 Parents,
The penultimate week of the spring term has been full of interesting projects.
A note on reading books.
I am going to be taking all reading books in today and keeping them in order to do an audit of the books we have in school. Your children will be given reading books to take home for the Easter holidays. Thank you for your understanding with this - we are looking to order some more books and so need to know what we have in stock first! You can continue to read with your child using picture books and any other books you have at home - less confident readers can read with you using repeat after me type methods.
As an end-of-term writing project the children have become authors and illustrators. They are in the middle of publishing their own books, which they are very excited about. The books are based on one of 'I Want My Hat Back' by Jon Klassen - it is a very simple book, largely based on the illustrations with some dialogue alongside it. All being well, the children will be bringing their books home next week to share with you.
The children were also tasked with a D.T. project - to design and bake a loaf of bread to celebrate the re-opening of the Pudding Lane Bakery. They did a bit of market research, evaluating different supermarket breads as well as images of Tudor-style loaves. They designed their own loaf and decided upon which flour to use (interestingly, in Tudor times white bread flour was only for the wealthy, while rye and oat bread was eaten by less wealthy people). Yesterday the children baked their loaves and evaluated them. Hopefully they saved some for you!
In Maths:
The Year 2 children have had a go at some past SATS papers. They worked incredibly hard. The format for SATS questions is a little different to our usual maths lessons, so we will be practising some more of these after Easter.
The Year 1 children have continued their work on subtraction, by finding addition and subtraction fact families.
Both year groups have been practising adding 10 to any number, and recognising patterns of adding 10.
Year 1 homework is here
Year 2 homework is here.
The spelling children have looked at the spelling pattern 'war' (as in towards, warden) and 'wor' (as in worth, work, worm). Their spellings are here.
The phonics children have revisited their long and short vowel sounds, and learnt that sometimes a single 'i' makes a long vowel sound (as in find) and a single 'o' makes a long vowel sound (as in post). Their spellings are here.
Next week will be mainly Easter things, with a few end-of-term assessments thrown in!
I hope you have a good week end,
From Mrs Simpson.
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