Hello Class 2 Parents,
A couple of notes to start with:
Clothing.
Please can you check at home because a couple of children have lost school jumpers and they aren't at school! As usual, please make sure everything is named.
Forest school clothing.
Today's session was the first really rainy one! A couple of notes -
* children need to come to school in their school shoes please, and carry their wellies.
* children must have waterproof trousers!
* If your child comes in a mud suit, please can they have a separate coat to wear later in the day.
Thank you - it's all going well so far, just a few teething problems!
No-bookbag Fridays.
Your child no longer needs to bring in a bookbag on a Friday, which will help with the logistics of Forest School kit and wellies! Please ensure your child's homework folder, group reading book and free choice (badger/squirrel) books are in their bookbags on a Thursday so we can do the changeovers.
Mantle of the Expert.
This week the children did some more learning about the features of living things. They used the acronym Mrs Gren to check the bog baby that they had found in the woods.
Movement
Respiration
Senses
Growth
Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition
These are, of course, some long words to learn but we are going to keep revisiting them. Luckily the bog baby was moving and breathing, it ate the flies offered to it and responded when the children touched it. Next, the children learnt that, to survive, living things need food, water, oxygen and shelter. They used this knowledge to rescue the bog baby.
They discovered, though, that the bog baby couldn't survive for long out of the water because it was an amphibian. The children learnt about what an ampibian is, and will continue to work on this next week (as well as reptiles, mammals, birds and fish).
Maths.
Year 1 children have been counting backwards and finding '1 less' than a number. Their homework is here and will be in their folders.
Year 2 children have continued their work on number lines, identifying what each interval is worth (1 or 10) and finding missing numbers. Their homework is here and will be in their folders - the first sheet only, unless your child would like an extra challenge (the second sheet, which will be printed on the reverse).
In phonics the children have revisited ee, igh, oa and oo. They have also been spelling was and want - two words with the same spelling pattern in.
In spellings the children have been looking at rhyming patterns with different 'ee' graphemes - eam, ield and eep. The words they've been learning can be found here.
Forest School:
The Forest Rangers embraced the rain this week! They were busy planting teasels and wildflower seeds and creating conker hedgehogs.
Have a good week end!
Mrs Simpson
