Summer Week 6

Hello Class 2 Parents,

Firstly, an invitation.
You are invited to pop along to Forest School on 26th June to see what your children get up to every week. This is very informal and I appreciate that you may not be able to take time off work, however if you can come along for an hour or so we would love to have you. A letter has gone home in book bags with a reply slip, so I have some idea of numbers. 

Reading books this week.
The Year 2 children have not read in groups this week because I have been carrying out some assessments of their reading. A couple of Year 1 children also did not finish their group books this week. If your child has not got a group reading book this week, they have instead got an extra free choice book to keep them going. 

Spellings. 
We have tested the children on their common exception words and have updated any spelling booklets that were in folders. 

In Class 2  this week:

The Turtle Detectives have been very busy. They were summoned to Honu Island because a turtle had washed up on the shore... but it was close to death. The children turned up to find plastic wrapped around its body, head and throat. They worked quickly to rescue the turtle, treating it with kindness and feeding it seagrass and algae. Luckily, they were able to help it and to set it free. This made the children think about plastic pollution - maybe that is the reason turtles are no longer coming to Honu Island. The children learnt about what plastic pollution is, particularly in relation to the ocean, and made some informative posters to go up around Honu Island.  They also have a plan to go litter picking around the island after half term. 

In maths:

The Year 1 children have been learning how to do practical division, by sharing between and by making equal groups.

eg - with 12 counters, they could share them between 2 people, who would have 6 each, or with 20 counters, they could make groups of 5 and ther would be 4 groups.

You can do a lot of practice of this at home with teddies, counters, dried pasta - prompt your child to share between or to make groups of. 

The Year 2 children have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes. The best way to practice this is to go on a shape hunt around the house or when you are round and about. The shapes we have looked at are:

2D: square, triangle, rectangle, circle, pentagon, octagon, hexagon. 
3D: sphere, cone, cylinder, cube, cuboid, pyramid

In phonics the Year 1 children continue to practice reading alien words and real words!  Here are a few sets of words for you to practise over the holidays:

In spellings, the Year 2 children have been learning how to use an apostrophe for possession, eg 'When he saw the mess, Tom's dad was annoyed', or 'I went to the shop to by mum's birthday cake.'

At Forest School...

we were blissfully warm! 

We had a campfire and made s'mores which the children thoroughly enjoyed. We also did some bark rubbing and cloud watching. It was lovely!

I didn't take any photographs, but picture your children eating s'mores around a campfire, covered in chocolate. 

Have a lovely week - see you for the final half term!

Mrs Simpson