Hello Class 2 Parents,
What a fabulous week we've had in Class 2!
Reading books
We started group reading sessions this week so your child will have a group reading book as well as a free choice reading book to read this week. Don't worry if they've seen the book before - we share books with Class 1 so there are sometimes some overlaps.
Forest School
We had our first Forest School on a lovely sunny morning! The children learnt about how to be safe at Forest School and were introduced to our base camp (made up of a lot of logs kindly donated by some people in the village). Then they started exploring. Lots of the children enjoyed using the magnifying glasses and bug pots to look at minibeasts while others planted some daffodil and tulip bulbs (we're hoping it will look lovely in the spring!). It was a great start to Forest School - thank you for all of your help again with the donations and with getting your children the necessary kit. A few photos are below, though we were so busy I didn't get round to taking many!
Welly boots - I am going to acquire some welly boot storage. You can then decide whether you want your child to take their wellies home each Friday or whether it's easier to keep them here. I don't mind, as long as they have wellies for Forest School! Until we have the storage, the wellies will need to come home each week.
Rainbow jobs.
The children also had their first Rainbow jobs of the year. Year 2 children are used to these and Year 1 are starting to get the hang of them. From Monday to Thursday, children have a choice of seven activities to complete in whatever order they like. The activites cover a wide range of curriculum areas, either introducing a skill or (more often) practising something the children have already learnt. This week, for example, the jobs were:
* creating a pond habitat by drawing, cutting out and sticking features onto a blue pond background. Year 2 children also labelled theirs.
* painting a bog baby outline by creating different tints of blue (by adding white).
* taking a photo of a friend and adding it to our class Seesaw account (a bit like Tapestry from Class 1, but only used within our class).
* practising rugby ball throwing and catching skills
* playing a maths game
* reading 'The Bog Baby' with a friend. (Year 2 children did a great job of reading to the Year 1 children this week!)
Our story.
In our story, the children learnt that our bog baby pond is located in the middle of a woodland. They created this woodland together using lots of different materials and learning about the features of a woodland habitat. They named the woodland 'The Magic Blue Wood' (because of all the ponds and bluebells). They 'met' a ranger from the woodland who had taken some photos of the bog babies, but had never seen them before and so didn't know what they were. The children explained that they were bog babies and they were very rare. The woodland ranger asked the children if they would help to protect the bog babies in the woods - they agreed, and became The B.B.P. (Bog Baby Protectors). To make sure everyone knows who they are, the children created some logos to go onto our classroom door.
Maths.
In maths this week the Year 1 children have been representing numbers efficiently (for example, showing 6 as two rows or three or five as a 3 and a 2) and have been counting on from any given number.
The Year 2 children have been partitioning two-digit numbers. They started by simply partitioning them into tens and ones (e.g. 56 can be partitioned into 50 and 6) then found different ways to partition them (e.g. 56 can be partitioned into 40 and 16, 30 and 26 and 20 and 36).
Year 1 homework is here just to practise their counting from any number. One way you could do this is to roll a dice, and count on from the given number (i.e roll a 7, and count on 8,9,10) (there are inteactive dice here). Another way is to use a pack of cards - put them face down in the middle of you and your child, and take it in turns to turn one over and count on from that number. You could make it a game whereby a player gets to keep the card if they count on successfully.
Year 2 homework is here and will be in their folders. They will need something to represent 10s and 1s (eg pencils for 10s and counters for 1s) to help them!
Phonics and spellings.
The Year 1 phonics group revisited the digraphs sh, ch and qu this week. See if you can spot them when reading.
The Year 2 spellings group looked at the endings -ay and -oy, learning that these graphemes are often used at the end of words. They also looked at the Year 2 high frequency words door/floor/poor. If you want to practise the spellings, they are here.
I hope you all have a good weekend!
From
Mrs Simpson
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