Greetings Class 2 Parents!
I hope your week has been as good as ours.
Firstly, just a friendly reminder - please don't snip or use any photos from this blog. They are for this blog and our class community only. Thank you!
Keyrings and bookbags.
Please could children have just one keyring on their bookbags - saves space and stops the bookbags all getting tangled together! Thank you.
The B.B.P.
Having taken on the mantle of Bog Baby Protectors last week, the children had a couple of important jobs to carry out this week. First, they visited the bog baby pond to survey the wildlife. After a couple of people walked into the pond, they decided a fence was needed. A D.T. project followed whereby the children built some fences using card, glue, staplers and tape. A couple of enterprising children also added gates using a split pin.
Next, we worked as a team to create a map of the woods. The map had a key showing the symbols needed and the children added the symbols to the map. However, they learnt that in one located (X marks the spot), there was a problem. They discovered a bog baby, all alone and far from the bog baby pond. It wasn't moving. The children did some learning about features of things which are alive, have once been alive, or have never been alive and decided that, luckily, the bog baby was alive. Next, they need to decide what the bog baby needs and therefore what to do with it.
Phonics/Spellings.
In phonics the children continued to revisit last year's learning, looking at the digraphs th, ng, nk and ai. A large focus of this revisiting is helping the children to use these digraphs when they are spelling words. It doesn't matter whether a word is correct at this stage, as long as the children are using their phonics correctly - for example they might spell 'snake' as 'snaik' and that is fine for now - as long as they are making phoneetically plausible attempts at words.
In spellings the Year 2 children looked as some ai and a_e spelling patterns, learning that rhyming words can help them to spell - e.g. if they learn to spell make, they can easily spell cake, take, snake and shake. The words we have looked at are here.
Maths.
Year 1 children have continued to look at numbers within 10, counting on or back from any given number and finding '1 more'. They also started to look at and use a number line.
Year 1 homework is to play Whack-A-Mole (this game will come up several times for homework - it's good for counting!). Choose the start number (start below 10 to begin with, then if your child is confident, pick all sorts of numbers) and your child has to whack the moles in numerical order. When they've whacked a few moles correctly, start again from a different start number.
Year 2 children have continued to work on partitioning (flexibly partitioning a 2-digit number) and have also been looking at number lines. They have been looking at what the start number is, what the end number is, and what each interval is worth.
Year 2 homework is to start familiarising yourself with Times Table Rock Stars - I don't monitor this in Class 2 (that starts in Class 3) but use it as a way to practise times tables (for Year 2 the focus is on the 2, 10 and 5x tables and related division facts).
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At Forest School...
Have a good weekend,
Mrs Simpson
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