Greetings Class 2 Parents,
What a great day we had at Salcey Forest! It was lovely to have so many of you there and the children had a super time building dens, identifying trees and spotting minibeasts.
In other news:
In maths the children have been learning to tell them time. For this we use an analogue clock, so if you have one at home please encourage your child to practise telling the time! Year 1 children have focussed on o'clock and half past, while Year 2 children have also look at quarter to and quarter past. They've also just started looking at five minute intervals.
There is no particular homework for this - but please help your child to practice telling the time as much as possible. It's one of those skills that simply needs a lot of practice! You can use this as well to help - it shows the real time, but you can also switch it so that you can show the time you want!
In spellings the Year 2 children have continued to look at homophones: knight/night, sun/son, won/one, bear/bare and great/grate.
In phonics the Year 1 children have been learning some spelling rules: adding suffixes to change the meaning of verbs (painting, painted, painter) and adjectives (bigger, biggest, smaller, smallest).
In writing the crocodile books are just about finished! The children are incredibly proud of their work (and rightly so) - the books will come home for you to see in a couple of weeks.
On Monday afternoon the whole school has a move-up afternoon, so Year 2 children have the opportunity to spend an afternoon with Mr Howard, while Year 1 children will spend the afternoon being helpful Year 2 children with me!
I think that's everything for now. The term is flying by and I can't quite believe there are only two weeks left!
Have a great weekend and I will see you next week.
Mrs Simpson
