Week 8: Remember, Remember...

Hello Class 2 Parents and welcome back. 

It was good to see the children's smiling faces this week and we have had a really good first week back. 

A note about reading books:
Due to the shortened week, and having a history day on Tuesday, we have not had time to do our usual 2 reads per group. Your children will therefore have a new badger book this week, but will not have a new phonics book until next Friday.

On Tuesday we had a history day. The children learnt all about the Gunpowder Plot. They...

* learnt the story and put events in chronological order.

* packed a bag to go searching for Thomas Percy (only including things that would have been available in 1605, such as a horse and not a car).

* created 'wanted' posters using charcoal.

* learn lots of key facts, including who the key characters were, why they were disgruntled, and why the plot failed. 

* wrote a report to the King, outlining the key events of the plot.

We held a class team quiz each day this week to see what the children could remember, and on Friday the children completed their own quiz to see what they had learnt. 

Phonics and Spellings.

A change for this half term: children are no longer in 'blue' and 'green' groups. Instead, Year 1 children will work as a whole group following the phonics scheme, while Year 2 children will start the spellings programme. 

We have only had two sessions this week, so I will update you further in next week's blog!

Maths.

Both year groups have started a new unit of work on addition and subtraction. They also looked at number bonds to 10. 

To practise this you can sing this song together (the numbers are the main part to join in with) and then play this game.  

Year 2 children, for an extra challenge you could write down all of the fact families for 10 (e.g. 1+9 = 10, 9+1 =10, 10-9 = 1, 10-1=9).

Have a good weekend!

From Mrs Simpson