Spring Week 3: Jack and the Beanstalk and other things

 Hello Class 2 Parents,

Firstly, thank you for all of the wonderful poetry videos you sent in this week! They were a joy to watch and I will be sharing them all with the class tomorrow. 

Secondly, we had a lovely time on Wednesday at the Reading Cafe. It will be happening every Wednesday from 3.20 until 4pm for the spring term (and longer if it proves to be useful!) and there are biscuits. 

In other news:

The children finished their Heather Galler-inspired art work and it is stunning. It will be displayed in the classroom, and when that display is done I'll put a photo up for you on a blog. 

We took the first little steps into our new story. The children remembered the different geographical features of Little Houghton, then we thought about what a village might have been like 1000 years ago. We created a village for our new story, with features such as a manor house, a church, a farm, a blacksmith's forge, a windmill and a cartwright's. 

In maths:

The Year 2 children continued to subtract a 2-digit from a 2-digit numbers.

The Year 1 children practised forming their numbers correctly. 

Then both year groups started a new unit of work on multiplcation. They learn to recognise and make equal groups, and to say, for example, that there were:
4 groups of 5
6 groups of 3

Year 1 homework is here. 

Year 2 homework is here. 

Both year groups have been counting in fives, and starting to learn the 5x table. Any extra practice will help!

In spellings the Year 2 children have been learning how to replace 'y' with 'ie' to change the meaning of verbs and nouns (eg baby - babies or try - tries). Their spellings are here. 

In phonics the Year 1 children have been revisiting 'igh' alternatives: igh, ie, i_e and i)

Blue group spellings are here and green group spellings are here. 

Have a good weekend!

From Mrs Simpson