Hello Class 2 Parents,
This week in Class 2...
In maths the Year 1 children have continued their work on place value within 20 and addition within 20. They practised counting on from one number, instead of starting from one every time, and used a number line to aid this. They also began to look at how they can use their small adding skills (or even better, their number fact knowledge) to help them to solve bigger additions. For example, if they know that 5 + 3 = 8, that fact makes the addition 15 + 3 much easier.
The Year 2 children have contined their new unit of work on multiplication and divison. They looked at the 'x' symbol today, learning that it means 'groups of' (it is, of course, generally known as 'times' but for the purposes of the next few weeks we will read it as 'groups of'). They practised drawing an accurate representation of a multiplication problem in order to find the product.
Both year groups have been practising counting 5s, and for Year 2s, the 5x table.
Year 1 homework is to play Whack-A-Mole, counting in steps of 5. Year 2 homework is to either do the same (as a rehearsal, or if your child is not yet counting accurately in 5s) and then also to play Hit The Button using the 5x tables.
As a side note on homework - It would be very good practice for Year 2 to start playing TT Rock Stars regularly, as by the end of Year 2 the aim is for them to know their 2, 5 and 10x tables and division facts. Also, once they get into Year 3 this (and homework in general) becomes more of a focus.
In phonics the children have continued to revisit the many graphemes they have been learning, focussing specifically on the oa and oo alternatives (oa/ow/oe/0_e and oo/ew/ue/u_e.
In spellings the children have this week looked at -el endings, after last week looking at -le endings. One spelling rule that does help is that the words with double letters in the middle tend to end -le. I have added the spelling list to The Spelling Shed and, again, I would encourage you to get your child playing these games to help their spellings.
In our story the children have taken on the role of Serfs, working hard on the land surrounding our Medieval village. They learnt what it took to care for their plot of land (milking the cow, picking fruit, tending to vegetable plots, collecting eggs...) but also how hard they had to work for the landowner. When we stepped into the story, the landowner (a role taken on by Toby) travelled from plot to plot, giving the serfs extra tasks to perform at a moment's notice. The serfs found it very hard work!
Other things we've been up to:
Science this term has been focussed on materials.
In R.E. the children are answering the question of 'What is the Good News that Jesus brings?' (so far - friendship, forgivness and peace).
In P.E. they have been learning some basic skills needed in netball.
In Music we have been learning a bit about dynamics (how loud or soft a piece of music is, and how this changes throughout a piece of music) and about using music to tell a story.
The term is going very well so far.
Forest School this week:
.... was exceptionally muddy! You will see when your child's clothes get home exactly why we ask for old clothes, waterproof clothes, and clothes that are allowed to get muddy! They had a fantastic time carrying out a bear mud-crawl: the challenge was to get from one area to the other, under and over paracord, without touching any of it. We also created a tyre swing, during the creation of which several children had a go at climbing up a rope.
Today was a very good example of just how good Forest School is for children's physical development!
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