Spring Week 9: Castles!

 

Hello Class 2 Parents,

The theme of this week has been castles!

The children have learnt about the features of a castle and have been writing reports for the Queen outlining those features. They also carried out a D.T. project to make paper models of a castle by:
* cutting paper
* joining paper using glue
* creating flanges so that the towers would stand up
*creating tabs so that the walls would stand up
*using l-braces to join the towers to the walls. 

The children did a brilliant job - lots of perseverance and team work was required! You can see the finished castles below. 

In maths:
Year 1 have continued their work on place value to 100, learning to compare numbers by looking at the tens first and then the ones. 
Year 2 have been solving problems involving division. 

Both year groups also looked at odd and even numbers. 

In phonics, the Year 1 children have learnt that:
g can make a 'j' sound (giant, gem, magic)
ph makes a 'f' sound

Blue group spellings are here

Green group spellings are here  

In spellings, the Year 2 children have learnt yet another rule! When adding a suffix to a word ending   consonant-e, you have to drop the e first. 

Their spellings are  here.

There is no maths homework, but as children can't bring their castles home to you (they made them in pairs) optional D.T. homework is to have another go at making a paper castle using the skills the children have learnt this week. Please put any photos of castles in this folder if possible, or email to the office if that doesn't work!

Bye for now,

Mrs Simpson