Spring Week 8: World Book Day

Hello Class 2 Parents,

It's been another good week in Class 2. 

Our Story
The children finishing writing up their descriptions of the giant they met on the road to Wales. Now, they are writing them up in neat - there is some beautiful work happening!

Having decided that Queen Matilda should build her kingdom in Wales, the next job was to decide where exactly. The Queen explained that she needed the perfect location, so the children set about finding it, and creating maps to present to her. The children used geographical language to describe the features - such as rivers, waterfalls, lakes, hills, mountains and farmland. 

World Book Day
We had a lovely World Book Day (morning) on Thursday. The whole school heard the story 'After The Fall' by Dan Santat, a book all about what happened to Humpty Dumpty after he fell off his wall. Then they rotated around three activities: sketching Humpty Dumpty at each stage of the story (learning to use a range of sketching pencils to draw and shade); making and testing paper aeroplanes (a good test in resilience and perseverence!); and writing some instructions for Humpty Dumpty to help him to feel better (such as 'Have a warm bubble bath and listen to music). 

Phonics
The children have looked at three digraphs this week:
oe - as in Joe and toe
ow - as in snow, glow, blow, throw
y - as in fly, sky, try 

Blue group spellings are here and will be in their folders. 

Green group spellings are here and will be in their folders. 

Spellings
The Year 2 children have been learning yet another spelling rule!

When you have a short word, with a short vowel followed by a single consonant at the end...
you must double the consonant before adding a suffix. 

eg:  skipped, hummed, running, flapping, tripped. 

There are no particular words to learn this week! Instead, I will be giving children words to spell that use this rule. They will know how to spell the root words, so they will just need to remember the rule and the suffix. 

You can practise this at home by giving your child words like the ones on this page to spell - the sheet will of course be in their folders too!

Maths
Year 1 children have continued to look at numbers to 50. They have this game to play this week - with a 3-digit option for those who are already confident with numbers to 100. 

Year 2 children have finished off their work on division! Their homework is here and will be in their folders. 


I think that's everything for now. The term is flying by!

Mrs Simpson