Hello Class 2 Parents,
It finally feels like summer (for now, at least)! We have been taking ourselves out under the trees to learn whenever possible and the children have been reminded to wear hats and drink lots.
Turtle Watch's mission to get turtles back to Honu Island is going well. They spent some time preparing the mini island for turtles: clearning the beaches, planting seagrass meadows in the sea and putting up signs. They took Kanoa (Honu Island's Chief Environmental Officer) to visit the island and she agreed it looked like a suitable habitat. The children have decided that visitors should be aloud, but only a few at a time. They have started to make some posters to advertise 'turtle tours' at £5 per ticket.
In writing the children continue to compose their own versions of 'The Storm Whale'. The Year 2 children have also continued their independent writing in the mornings.
Year 2 spellings will be words that have cropped up during their writing this week - lists are in their homework folders.
Year 1 spellings have once again been focussed on suffixes; this time adding -er or -est to an adjective to change its meaning. Their spellings are some root adjectives - please help them to learn these root words and then they will be asked to write them with either an -er or -est suffix (it would be worth practising this at home).
Maths this week has involved money!
Year 1 children simply need to recognise coins and notes. There is no particular homework for this, but any opportunity for them to see, handle and use real money over the next couple of weeks (and going forwards) will be very beneficial to them.
Year 2 children have been learning how to work out how much money there is, by adding the coins. They have also been learning how to make different amounts of money. Their homework challenge is to use some real money over the next week to pay for something - if there is photo evidence of this, email it in and we can talk about it with the class!
Enjoy the sun!
Mrs Simpson
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