Hello Class 2 parents,

This week has been... sunny. So sunny! It seems a long time since those cold, rainy winter months. The children are doing a good job of putting hats on and drinking plenty of water.

This week we have, among other things:

* realised that we forgot to look after our bean plants.
* talked about why the bean plants died, and what they needed.
* planted some new bean plants and decided how to make sure they don't die.
* learnt what a key is when it comes to map-making, and created a key for our map of the Maasai Mara (see photo - the children created it together). We're going to need the map to help us find the Enormous Crocodile. 
* finished planning our non-fiction books about Nile crocodiles, and started putting the books together.

In addition...

Maths:

The Year 1 children have continued to work on equal groups and repeated addition. They moved on to creating arrays, which have equal rows and equal columns. Their homework is here

The Year 2 children have spent the week revisiting all of the learning they have done so far this year. Their maths homework is a puzzle this week and it's here.

Phonics and spellings:

The spelling group have continued to work on the homophones: their spellings for next week are here.

The phonics group has been learning some alternative pronunciations: that 'or' can make the 'ur' sound (as in worm and work) and that 'u' and 'oul' can make the 'oo' sound (as in put, push, could and would). Their homework is here.

Have a good weekend!

From Mrs Simpson