Hello Class 2 Parents,
Water bottles.
Water bottles should only have water in, for health and stickiness reasons (spilt squash is so much more troublesome than spilt water!). If your child has a medical reason for needing squash, please let me know.
Nativity costumes:
Please bring in the items on the list we circulated, on Monday. Thank you!
In Class 2 this week:
As you may have seen on our classroom windows, Christmas has hit with full force this week. The children have had a great time decorating the classroom and watching the Panto and it feels like Christmas is rolling around rapidly
Nativity rehearsals have taken up quite a bit of time. The children are doing a good job. Continual practice with loud voices is required though please! Thank you for all your help with your children's lines.
In between Christmas, we have managed to fit:
Maths: Finishing off work on fact families and starting work on place value to 100 (representing 2-digit numbers as 10s and 1s).
Phonics: learning about vowels (short and long vowel sounds) and starting to collect all the different graphemes we have been learning. Also adding 'ey' to our 'ee' collection.
Spellings: words with 'u' spelt 'o' (mother, other, brother). Their words are here - please feel free to practise them, though with the dress rehearsal next week I'm not completely sure we will fit in the spelling challenge. We will do our best!
Ernest Shackleton: The children wrapped up their history learning with a quiz on Ernest Shackleton. They've learnt a lot!
Our story: After a break from our story, we got back to it. Following their own instructions, the children relocated the lost penguin to Antarctica. It went well, and the penguin waddled happily off with its colony.
To the children's surprise, on the way back on the boat we saw a small iceburg floating in the water with a.... polar bear on it. This was surprising, because the children know that polar bears belong in the Arctic, no where near Antarctica! It looked very thin and weak so the children decided that it needed help.
We did a bit of research about polar bears and their features - the children made some fantastic polar bear posters and we'll be thinking about how to help the polar bear next week.
Christmas:
See below for a couple of photos of the children making paper chains and snow flakes - they had a lovely time.
HOMEWORK:
* Year 2 spellings (see above)
* Everyone please practise your nativity lines, slowly and clearly. Narrators, practice holding your booklets in front of you but not covering your face!
* Everyone please practice your common exception word spellings (on the cards in your homework folders) as we will be doing our end-of-term check of these soon.
Have a good weekend!
From Mrs Simpson
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