Hello Class 2 Parents,
I hope your week has been as good as ours!
Our new Mantle of the Expert story is under way. Having created the Medieval village of Hocton Parva and filled it will homes, other buildings and residents, the children learnt about the people on the edges of the village - the serfs. They learnt that the serfs were some of the poorest people in the village, who had to work very hard in exchange for very little. Each child was given a plot of land and asked to imagine that they were a serf, and this plot of land was theirs. They created their plots of land by adding a cottage, some crops, fruit trees and animals. Next, the children will be taking on the role of serfs and imagining what daily life was like as a serf.
In Maths:
The Year 1 children have been comparing numbers to 20, using 'greater than' and 'less than'. They have also been ordering numbers to 20, describing them as 'the greatest', 'the smallest' and 'in between'.
To practise this skill, they can play this caterpillar ordering game. If your child is confident, you can extend the numbers up to 100.
The Year 2 children have started a new unit of work on multiplication and division. This week they have been making and adding equal groups, using the language of 'groups of ' and 'how many in each group'. Their homework is here and will be in their folders.
In phonics the children have spent this week revisiting the many digraphs they have been learning since the start of Year 1. They have enjoyed playing Obb and Bob again - if you want to practise this week's graphemes, they have been looking at:
ai alternatives - ay ai a_e
ee alternatives - ee ea ie e_e y
igh alternatives - igh ie i_e y
In spellings the Year 2 children have looked at words ending 'le'. Some words have a double letter in the middle (following a short vowel), others don't. The list has been added to The Spelling Shed. Please do login with your child and play some of the games - they are a fun way to learn spellings.
At Forest School this week:
We had a lovely Forest School session, despite the cold and damp! The children toasted marshmallows, learning how to sit next to the fire safely. They also made some wind socks and enjoyed hanging them in the trees to watch the effects of the wind. A very popular activity was creating paint from crushed charcoal and water, and using it to paint stones and trees.
We took many photos of the marsh mallow roasting, but sadly the Ipad had an issue and I've been unable to upload them!
Have a good weekend
From Mrs Simpson
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