Hello Class 2 Parents,
I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year time.
We have had a good week back, only enhanced by the little bit of snow at the start of the week! The children have enjoyed getting reacquainted with one another.
In Maths:
The Year 1 children have started a new place value unit, looking at numbers to 20. This week they learnt to represent numbers 11 to 19 using a ten and some ones. They learnt that numbers 11 to 19 all contain one ten and that the '1' in the tens column is worth 10.
To practise this, the children can play this game of pairs.
The Year 2 children have been revisiting work they started before Christmas, adding and subtracting two-digit numbers, crossing a ten.
I am not setting any Year 2 homework for maths instead please take the time you would have spent on maths, to visit the Spelling Shed (see below).
In Spellings the Year 2 children have been looking at words starting with 'kn' and 'gn'. I have set these words for them to practise in The Spelling Shed. Instead of maths homework this week, please take the time to visit and get to know The Spelling Shed (all children received logins last term and there is information here if it is your first time using it).
In Phonics the Year 1 children have learnt some alternative 'oa' graphemes - ow, oe and o_e. We also played a game which they enjoyed - Picnic on Pluto. This game is great for practising using the different graphemes to read words. Pick 'phase 5' and choose on of the graphemes we have learnt so far. Children read the words and decide whether they are real or nonsense, feeding them to the relevant alien.
In other news we started a new music unit of work looking at tempo, a new R.E. unit of work looking at the good news that Christians believe Jesus brings and to start of our Mantle of the Expert story we took a walk around the village, learning a bit about villages versus cities.
I hope you all have a good weekend!
Mrs Simpson
