Week 3: Bog babies and their habitats.

 Hello Class 2 parents,

What a very wet and wild week! The children have enjoyed running around in the blustery weather and finding the first conkers on the ground. 

Thank you to those of you who managed to come to the meeting on Monday. It was good to have a chance to see you all and for you to see the classroom. Hopefully you have all received the class information that went out following Monday. If not, you can find a copy here. 

This week the children have continued their work on bog babies. In writing, they have been describing bog babies ready to make some useful posters for the wall. The Year 2 challenge was to include two adjectives in a list: for example, 'They have small, round bellies.' In science the children looked at the bog babies' habitat - a woodland habitat. We looked at features of a woodland habitat and created a habitat for a bog baby out of a range of materials around the classroom. The children went on to draw and label a habitat for their own bog baby. 

In maths:

Year 1 children have been looking at numbers to 20. They have written them and represented them using ten frames, learning that the numbers from 10 to 19 all have a '10' in them. Their homework is here, and will also be in their folders. 

Year 2 children have been looking at numbers to 100, refreshing their memories of 10s and 1s and writing numbers to 100. Their homework is here and will also be in their folders. 

In phonics:

In your child's homework folder I have included a note about which phonics group they are in. I have based this upon my initial assessments of the children. Each week I will outline the graphemes each group has learnt, and Year 2 will have spellings linked to their graphemes. 

Blue group has been looking at some phase 3 digraphs: oa, ur, or, ow, oi, ear. They have been practising reading and writing words with them in. 

They have been spelling the tricky words: my by no go so to do of

Green group has been looking at 'ee' alternatives. For Year 2, this is a refresher. For the Year 1 children in the group, this is a first brief look at some sounds they will be learning in more depth later on in the year. The graphemes are:   ee  ea  y  e  e_e

They have been spelling the tricky word: people

Year 2 spellings are here and will be in their folders as usual.
(Year 1s in the group are welcome to look at these spellings if they are keen, but I will not be testing them on them). 

In other news, the children are all settling back in to school well. The Year 2 children continue to be helpful and the Year 1 children are getting the hang of being Year 1 children. 

I hope you all have a good week end!

Mrs Simpson