Summer Week 7: important Turtle work.

 Hello Class 2 Parents,

Welcome to the final half term of the year! I hope you all had a good week last week and managed to enjoy the sun. 

Firstly - no Forest School next week. 
The older children in school are going to have a chance to experience Forest School, so Class 2 can come to school in their school uniform and will have a morning with Mrs Neal. 

The children have had a great start to the half term. Daphne joined our class this year - she is in Year 1 and so will be with us next year too. The children have been very friendly and welcoming and it's lovely to have her with us. 

In our story the Turtle Detectives had an important job to do. During their turtle tracking before half term, they discovered that one turtle had left the ocean and was on mainland South Africa. Yesterday, they found out why. The turtle had been following the moon, but became confused by some beachside street lamps on Durban beach. It followed those lamps instead of the moon, and found itself in the middle of Durban! The children of course agreed that a city is not a good habitat for a green turtle, so they set to work rescuing it. They went on to discover that Honu Beach, on Honu Island, also has several lights on it that glow all night... they are going to have a closer look at this next week, to see whether this might be another problem for turtles on Honu Island. 

In maths the two year groups are joining together for a few weeks to do some work on measure. This week we looked at measuring length and height using cubes, cm and m. To practise this at home you can measure anything you like! Encourage children to estimate first whether it is longer/shorter/taller than 1 metre, and then help them to measure accurately. A fun project is to measure the heights of all the different family members, or to draw around hands and feet and measure those. 

In spellings the Year 2 children have looked at words ending with -tion. I have added these to The Spelling Shed as well. 

In phonics we have had our final week practising alien and real words, ready for the children's phonics check next week. They will just carry this out 1:1 with me, they don't know they are being tested and they have had lots of practice. Please help your child to practise reading alien and real words over the weekend using these QR codes - practice really does make a difference!

In English the children have been making some turtle books. Before half term they spent time writing five different chapters, and this week and next are set aside for publishing their work!

At Forest School this week:

With all the sun and rain we've had, Forest School is looking lovely! It's very green and everything is growing. The children spent the morning making wild crowns (using the many different grasses that have appeared), making mud potions and spotting dragonflies. 

Have a good week end - see you next week!

Mrs Simpson