Summer Week 4: the theme is sunshine.

 Hello Class 2 Parents,

I hope you're reading this with an ice cream in your hand! It's been such a lovely sunny week and the children have been enjoying themselves, using our outdoor area a lot. 

First - a few notes!

Important: a possible trip!
The office sent you all an email regarding a possible trip to Salcey Forest - please fill in the given survey as soon as possible so that I can either make a plan to go ahead, or make an alternative plan! The survey is here, if you haven't already seen it. Thank you!

Spellings cards. 
As usual at the end of each half term, we will be testing your child on their individual common exception word spellings. Please ensure their spelling card is in their homework folder next week, so that I can update it accordingly. Thank you!

Water bottles. 
Once again, can I please ask that water bottles contain water only unless you have spoken to me and your child has a reason for needing squash. We've had a couple of spillages recently that are sticky and messy, and when children see another child's transparent bottle with squash in it they feel it is unfair. 

In Class 2 this week:

Maths.
The children have continued their work on multiplication. Last week they were making equal groups, and this week they have been making arrays. Arrays are a way of representing muliplications and divisions using equal rows and columns. Year 1 children have been focussing on how many rows, and how many in each row and how many columns, and how many in each column.  Year 2 children have been writing multiplication facts to match their arrays. 

Year 1 Maths homework is here and will be in their bags.

Year 2 Maths homework is here and will be in their bags.

In phonics the children continue to practice for their phonics screening check in June. They focussed this week on ir, er and ur as well as or, aw and au. 

If your child is taking the phonics screening check this year (all Year 1 children and any Year 2 children who need to retake it), I have put another slip in their bag with a QR code which takes you to some practice words. 

In spellings the children have been looking at words with the -ful and -less suffixes, and what these suffixes do (turn a noun into an adjective). Look out for these words in books you read together. 

In our story the children have been doing some geography, learning about Kenya in preparation for Professor Rufus Johnson's visit there. They've looked at the climate, flag, location, food, animals (the Big Five) and more. If you'd like to do some more research on Kenya with your child, please do so - I'm happy to receive and share anything they find out!

I hope you have a good weekend and continue to enjoy the sun!

From

Mrs Simpson