Greetings Class 2 Parents!
Note: there will be no Forest School next Friday, due to use not being here on Monday and needing to catch up on Monday things! Please send children in wearing their school uniform and with their book bag. Thank you.
I hope you have had a good week. We have been busy and productive in Class 2.
In science over the past few weeks Mr Garbutt has been teaching the children about habitats around the world. This week they looked at rainforests, learning about what a rainforest is and about some of the threats facing rainforests (deforestation, poaching, wildfires and pollution). The children worked in teams to make some informative posters.
It would be good to have a look at some YouTube videos, or documentaries, with your children that focus on rainforests. They were very interested in them!
In our story the children met a lady called Kekepania, from Honu Island. She has lived there a long time. She told the children all about the changes that have happened to the island (since the first people landed there) and they added some human features to the map. She also told them that, sadly, there has not been a turtle seen on or around the island for 20 years. She recruited their help to find out why, and our new team, 'Turtle Watch' was formed.
In maths:
The Year 1 children started a new unit of work on multiplication. At this stage, they were making equal groups and recognising how many groups there were, and how many in each group.
To practice this, you can either:
* ask your child to put their teddies, pencils, or anything else into equal groups. How many groups are there, and how many in each group?
* Roll two dice - the first one tells you how many groups to make and the second one tells you how many should be in each group. You could make this a race, to see who can create the equal groups correctly first.
The Year 2 children have continued their work on fractions, finding 1/4 or 1/3 of different amounts.
This week, your children can use their fraction knowledge to play this game, becoming artists by following the instructions.
In phonics the children have looked at the trigraphs:
ear (as in beard)
eer (as in cheer)
air (as in chair)
are (as in spare)
Please help your child to spot these trigraphs in their reading books, or out and about. They can also have a go at Phonics Frog - you will need to enter custom real and nonsense words such as:
beard/dear/clear/fear/spear/cheer/steer/chair/hair/spare/care/dare
glear/peerk/kairm/gare/weer/barek/smair/quearb/blear....
In spellings the children have learnt that when they add -ed or -ing to a short word, with a short vowel followed by a single consonant, they have to double the consonant -
hum - hummed - humming
drop - dropped - dropping
I have added the words to The Spelling Shed.
Forest School this week:
The children had a sunny and chilled morning, building dens, role playing, making bug hotels, relaxing and socialising in the hammock and climbing various things!
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