Hello Class 2 parents,

We've had a brilliant week in Class 2. 

In our story:

As they travelled around the Maasai Mara looking for the Enormous Crocodile, the team came across what appeared to be an abandoned village. There were round houses made of large sticks, mud and dried grasses - but no one was there. It was quite eerie. Finally the children found that one hut was occupied by an elderly man wearing a red blanket around him. He welcomed them to his kraal (hut) and introduced himself as a Maasai Chief. The man explained that his whole tribe had fled following an invasion of Nile crocodiles - the crocodiles had eaten the cattle and goats and left them with nothing. 

The team, of course, offered to help. They helped the Chief to rebuild the strong 'accacia' fence around his boma (village) to protect it from crocodiles. 

The team worked very hard to represent the village and fence - you can see the finished boma in the picture. 

The children also learnt that the official languages of Kenya are Swahili and English. They started to learn to count in Swahili. 

The children do not have any maths homework this week. Instead, they have a challenge:

Learn to count to 10 in Swahili. If they manage this challenge, they need to come and count to 10 for me and I will award house points! As usual, this is an optional, but educational, homework!

Here is a video to help.

Maths.

Year 2 have been doing a bit of data handling, collecting information on the class's favourite safari animals and representing the information in a block graph and a pictogram. 

Year 1 have been working on the first steps of 'division', by sharing objects into equal groups (for example, sharing 20 counters into groups of 5, and understanding that 20 counters shared into groups of 5 gives us 4 groups). 

There is no maths homework (see above). 

Phonics and Spellings.

The phonics children  has learnt the word endings:  le, al and ve (as in little, metal and love). Their spellings are here

The spellings children have been learning to spell the months of the year. Their spellings homework is here. 

I think that's everything for this week. Have a good week end!
From Mrs Simpson