Week 11: allsorts

 

Hello Class 2 Parents,

This half term is going exceptionally quickly. It's one week until December and not long until Christmas completely takes over in Class 2!

For now, though, we continue as usual, fitting in maths, phonics, and everything else around our daily Nativity read-through. Thank you for all the work you've been doing helping your children to learn their lines - they really are doing a brilliant job!

On Tuesday the children were treated to a fantastic string trio. They were enthralled for the entire 50-minute performance! 

In our Bog Baby story, the children did some further map work. They were given Google satellite maps and asked to identify various geographical features. Then they had to decide upon three possibly locations for the new houses (see previous posts re: the woodland and the imminent threat of house-building). The children had to find a potential house location that: was near to a road, not too far from Northampton, had a lake or woodland nearby to walk around, and would not need any woodland habitats to be destroyed. 

The children also finished writing their Bog Baby stories this week. They spent a lovely few minutes sharing their writing with their thinking friends - see photos below. The next challenge is to spend a bit of time publishing the stories into a class book. 

In Maths:

Year 1 children have been working on addition fact families - number sentences that are related, and match a given part/whole model, eg:

3 + 5 = 8
5 + 3 = 8
8 = 3 + 5
8 = 5 + 3

Their homework is here and will be in their book bags.  A top tip is to remember that 'equals' means 'the same as'. 

Year 2 children have been looking at number bonds to 100. Their homework is here. 
For an extra challenge, use Hit The Button to practise this - select 'number bonds' then 'make 100'. If you would like a slightly less tricky one, choose 'make 100 (10s).

In phonics the Year 1 children have been learning split digraphs: 

a-e
i-e
o-e
u-e

See if you can spot these in reading books or out and about!

In spellings the Year 2 children have been learning the word endings -dge and -g. Their spellings are here and will be in their book bags. 

Have a good weekend!

Mrs Simpson