Week Two: Autumn leaves and a lot of art work.

Hello Class 2 Parents,

The children have very much been enjoying the autumnal weather this week - lots of sun but also blustery breezes and piles of leaves to play with!

This week...

In Phonics the Year 1 children have been revisiting ng, ai, ee and igh. They've been practising putting these sounds into words. 

They've also been spelling the tricky words today and of. 

In Spellings the Year 2 children have been looking at the 'wr' grapheme - as in write, wrong and wrestle. Their spellings are here

Note  a change for this year: instead of printing out weekly spelling sheets, I will put the week's spellings on the blog and the children will have a small book where they will do their weekly spelling challenge. That book will go home in their home learning folder, and needs to stay there please so we can use it each week. 

In Maths we have been looking at the place value of numbers to twenty (learning that every teen number has a 10 in it),  writing numbers to twenty the correct way around and finding 1 more and 1 less than numbers to 20. 

The Year 1 homework is here and will be in their folders. 

The Year 2 homework is here  and will be in their folders.

In Drawing Club our story has been The Three Billy Goats Gruff. See if your children can tell you the story themselves!

We've also been doing a lot of art. The children have been learning about the art work of Oliver Jeffers and this week created some self portraits in his style (a big head, dot eyes, simple body, stick legs and bold colours!). When I have them up on the wall I'll post a picture on the blog. There are still some finishing touches to do. 

Aside from all of that, the children have continued to learn through their Rainbow jobs. 

Here are a very few photos from this week - apologies if your child doesn't feature, but hopefully you can get an idea of what we've been up to!