Summer Term Week 11: Moving up, crocodile removal and the Maasai Tribe.

 Hello Class 2 Parents,

It's been a varied and busy week in Class 2 this week. 

In our writing lessons the children have been writing reviews of Zog. The reviews have been overwhelmingly positive and I'll be contacting the theatre to let them know. It has been fun to use writing skills in a slightly different way this week. 

On Monday we had move-up afternoon. The Year 2 children had a great afternoon in Class 3 and have been telling me all of the tongue twisters Mr Howard taught them. The Year 1 children loved being Year 2s for the afternoon; they were exceptionally helpful to the Reception children and were very good role models. 


Our story has been moving along nicely. The children revisited their Autumn Term roles as Wildlife Lost and Found officers. They were contacted by a ranger from Maasai Mara who asked them to relocated a number of Nile crocodiles. The team used their knowledge of crocodiles to plan and carry out the operation. Using Google maps, they decided to relocate them to Embu County, an area of Kenya with rivers and swampy forests. If you want to explore Kenya further with your child, we had fun dragging the little person icon onto Kenyan roads to see what it looked like. We even saw a sign saying 'No swimming' with a picture of a crocodile on it!

To celebrate the successful relocation of the crocodiles, and therefore the Maasai Mara becoming safer again, the children were invited to watch some traditional Maasai singing and dancing. After that, we used ipads to find out more about the Maasai tribe. 

In maths we have continued work on weighing objects. We had a great session where the children were challenged in teams to find single objects that weighed exactly 5, 10, 20,100,200 or 500g, or 1kg. It turns out there are not many heavy items in our classroom - the children found all sorts of things weighing up to 100g, but 200g, 500g and 1kg eluded them! 

Maths homework this week is therefore to see if your child can find an item weighing 1kg by itself! (or.... as close to 1kg as you can manage). If you manage it, ask your child to either bring the item in (if it would survive a trip to school) or let the class know!

In spellings the whole class has been looking at verbs and suffixes. This has served as a recap for Year 2, who managed to remember some rules but not all, while Year 1 have looked at it for the first time. 

Year 1 spellings are here. 
Year 2 spellings are here. 

Homework note: I will not be setting any more spellings or homework after this week as we will be doing lots of assessments and other end of term activities. In the last week of term I will send some general home learning ideas for the summer!

Have an enjoyable weekend! 

From Mrs Simpson