Hello Class 2 Parents,
I hope you had a good Easter, and welcome to the summer term! As ever, it was lovely to see your children's smiling faces after a two week break.
Last half term was a very short one, so this week we have been finishing off last term's history work by learning about the Battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings. The children have throughly enjoyed this, particulary the role play of the battles.
You will have received an email from the office (or will do soon) outlining this week's Mantle of the Expert story - Turtle Watch. Please don't give anything away to your children - it's more fun if the learning unfolds as the story goes! I think the class will really enjoy this term's story.
In reading and writng this week we have been looking at a book called 'The Storm Whale'. We've been doing a bit of whole class reading and have started doing some diary writing in role as the main character, Noi.
The children have started a new unit of maths on shape. This week, they've been learning to name and describe 2D shapes.
Maths homework is this:
Use 15 lolly sticks, pencils, felt tips, strips of card, sticks, or something else straight.
What different combinations of 2D shapes can you make using these 15 shapes?
What is the highest number of shapes you can make, and what shape are they?
Can you make one large shape with 15 straight sides and 15 vertices?
If you want to take some photos and put them in this folder, please do. However, please don't feel like you have to - you can just have fun with the homework! If you can't add photos to the folder and would like me to see them, please email them in.
In phonics the Year 1 children are revisiting a range of sounds and have started to look at alien words and real words in preparation for June's phonics check.
Due to this, their spelling homework will be a bit different this half term. To begin with, their challenge is to learn to spell numbers to 10 (some are easy, some are quite tricky. If your child finds them tricky, help them to learn as many as possible but don't worry about learning them all!)
In spellings the Year 2 children have been looking at words ending -ey. Their spellings are here and will be in their folders as usual.
I think that's everything for now,
Mrs Simpson
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