The first full week.

Hello Class 2 Parents,

We've made it to the end of our first full week in Class 2. The children are doing a super job, and will probably need a rest this weekend!

A few notes:

Class 2 meeting
On Monday after school I'll be telling you a bit more about how the class will work this year. Year 2 parents, it will be similar to last year but you will possibly want to hear about it from a Year 2 perspective. 

Free choice books
Your children came home with a badger or squirrel book (a free choice reading book) this week, with a letter explaining how they will work. We will start reading groups next week, so a week today they will come home with their phonics/group reading book too. 

Water bottles. 
We encourage water only in bottles please. Squash spillages are sticky and messy! If there's a reason your child needs squash, please let me know. 

PE kits. 
It worked really well this week having the children come to school in their PE kits - it meant our lesson could be a lot longer! Thank you. 

Our learning this week:

Writing.
Our year is starting off with Drawing Club. Year 1 are already familiar with it and I will talk more about it on Monday at our Class 2 meeting. This week our book was Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. The children wrote a sentence each day based on it. 

Maths.
We're starting the year with the basics! We've been looking at numbers to 10 - how they can be represented so that we can recognise them easily without counting (subitising). For example, the arrangements of dots on a dice make it very easy to recognise numbers. We also looked at numbers to 20, recapping for the Year 2s and introducing for the Year 1s that teen numbers are made up of '10 and some more'. 

Phonics.
In phonics the Year 1 children have been revisiting sh, ch, th and qu. They've been practising putting these digraphs into words. 

Spellings.
The Year 2 children have looked at the digraphs kn and gn. 

Usually there will be some spelling homework - however, this will start next week!

The children have also been learning (or re-learning) how to do Rainbow Jobs. These were previously called Passport Jobs. They have 7-8 jobs per week that they can choose from, in between working on maths or writing with an adult. 

In the afternoons we have been doing some art - the children have been learning about the illustrations of Oliver Jeffers and will be creating a self-portrait in his style next week. 

We've had a good week. The children are getting used to each other (the Year 1s are getting used to being part of a bigger class) and are getting used to the new routines. 

I will endeavour to take some photographs next week - we've been so busy I haven't got around to it this week!

From Mrs Simpso