Summer Week 5: Becoming Turtle Watch

Happy Friday Class 2 Parents,

Apologies, I forgot to click 'publish' on Thursday even though the blog was all ready to go.

I hope you've all had a good week. Class 2 has been going well!

On Monday the children became Turtle Watch. They met Dr Lucy Ellis working on a beach in Mombasa, Kenya. She asked them to help her attach trackers to a number of green turtles on the beach and to monitor their migration and feeding habits. The children named each turtle, measured its shell, estimated its age and attached a tracker. We did some work on continent names, ocean names and compass directions to make sure the children would be able to fill in their daily turtle tracking logs. 

Homework this week is to have a go at this online puzzle with the aim of practising your continents and oceans. You can choose how many pieces you tackle under 'difficulty'. You could even start with an easier one, then challenge yourself with more pieces!

In Maths, the children have started a new unit of work on fractions. They have learnt that a half is one of two equal parts and practised finding half of shapes and amounts. 

There is no Maths homework this week because I've set you geography homework (see above).

In phonics, the Year 1 children revisited the graphemes oy, i (as in find, mind, kind) and ow. In spellings, the Year 2 children started to look at contracted words such as hasn't, couldn't, wouldn't, don't. 

I will be checking children's common exception words next week, so their spelling homework is to practice those! Please make sure their spelling cards are in their homework folders next week. Thank you!

On Monday we have a student teacher starting in Class 2, Miss Megan Pratt. She is in her second year of a teaching degree. She will start off by getting to know the class next week and will gradually start teaching some lessons under my supervision after half term. 


I think that's everything for now. 

See you next week!

Mrs Simpson