Week 12: 2033

 Hello Class 2 Parents,

Happy December!!

The week has mainly been focussed on the nativity, getting stories written up in neat, some maths and phonics, and sorting quite a large bog baby problem. 

Our story jumped ahead to the year 2033. the Smith & Jones Building Co had built their new housing estate far away from the bog baby pond. That's the good news. 

Unfortunately, the pond itself had suffered from neglect. It was full of litter and other debris from the forest and, worse, no one had seen a bog baby there for many years. That's the bad news. 

The SPBB decided they should do something. They went to the pond and began to clear it. While doing so, they found some mysterious items and clues - including some bog baby prints and a mobile phone. They decided someone must have stolen the bog babies from the wild! A few days later, they spotted this:

The children were outraged. Not having enough money to buy all the bog babies back, they went to the pet shop to speak to Penny. Unfortunately, she was not very receptive to their ideas and asked them to leave. She explained she needed money to pay bills, and so would be selling the bog babies as soon as possible. She told the team they'd have to write to her lawyers if they had a problem. 

So that's what we will be doing next week. 

Meanwhile:

In Maths:

Year 1 children have been looking at number bonds to 20. They've learnt that if they know number bonds to 10, number bonds to 20 come quite easily. 

Year 2 children have been adding a 1-digit number to a 2-digit number, crossing a 10. The way they've done this is to simplify the addition, but jumping to the next ten first. For example:

25 + 7  = 30 + 2. 

In phonics the Year 1 children have learnt some new graphemes: e_e, ew and aw. They've learnt that ew and aw tend to go at the ends of words (as in screw, new, claw, paw). 

In spellings the Year 2 children have learnt that the 'j' sound is usually spelt with a g before the letters e, i and y. Their spellings are here. 

There is no maths homework this week. Instead, please help your children to practise their high frequency word spellings as I will be carrying out the half-termly tests of these in the next week or two!

And, of course, keep practising those nativity words and any acting that goes along with them!

Have a good weekend,

From Mrs Simpson