Happy Summer Holidays!

 Hello Class 2 Parents,

After a long, hot but very successful half term, the summer holidays have finally arrived! 

Thank you so much (on behalf of both myself and Mrs Neal) for the lovely, generous gifts we have received. Thank you also for everything you have done this year to support the school and your children's education. We are lucky to have such kind, supportive parents to work with. 

We have had a great year in Class 2. A few things the children have done:

* cared for bog babies as the B.B.P

* helped a queen to build a castle and establish a kingdom

* brought turtles back to Honu Island

* a LOT of maths - numbers, shape, space, measure, fractions...

* written quite a few stories and some other things

* studied the art work of Gwen Millward, Paul Klee and Orla Keely (and used a range of art materials)

* learnt a bit about Islam

* sung a lot of songs and learnt to play the boomwhackers

* taken part in all kinds of P.E. lessons including tag rugby, dodgeball, tennis, cricket and gymnastics 

* learnt about a lot of different creatures (including turtles) and what they need to survive and thrive

* taken a trip to Warwick Castle

* set up Little Houghton's first Forest School

* endured (and enjoyed) all kinds of weathers at Forest School (from around 5 degrees to around 30 degrees!)

* designed, made, eaten and evaulated some fruit kebabs

* completed many, many Rainbow jobs

Over the summer, please, please read with your children. You can make use of the library service and local libraries often have summer challenges. 

Goodbye to AJ, Andrew, Florence, Katie, Leroy, Oscar, Seth, Seven, Stanley, Timmy and Zachary. You have been great Year 2s this year!

See you soon for Year 2 Alice, Benjamin, Daphne, Liam, Louis, Martha, Ophelia, Pippa, Rachael  Tallulah, and Toby. 

Goodbye for now - have a good summer!

Mrs Simpson

Summer Week 11: Back to normal.

 Hello Class 2 Parents,

It was such a relief to have some more normal summer temperatures this week!

In maths:

Year 1 children have been looking at 2D and 3D shapes. A good way to practice this is to do some shape hunting around the house: furniture, food containers, toys.... . Look for:

circles
triangles
squares
rectangles
pentagons
octagons
hexagons

spheres
cylinders
cones
pyramids
cubes
cuboids

Year 2 children have continued their work on time. They have now been taught: 
o'clock
half past
quarter to
quarter past
five minute intervals past
five minute intervals to

The only way really to learn to tell the time is to practice it! As mentioned before, a watch or an analogue clock in your child's bedroom is a good way to get them telling the time. 

In spellings, both year groups have been looking at suffixes. 
Year 1 - adding 'er' or 'est' to an adjective to change its meaning, eg big, bigger, biggest
Year 2 - adding the suffix 'ful' or 'less' to a word

The children have been doing a lot of printing recently and have started to process of designing a block print. They will learn how to apply paint to their polystyrene tile in order to create a print. If you have the resources at home, doing printing is a great way for your child to be artistic and to create patterns. 

The children were fantastic at Sports Day - they were cheering their friends on, smiling even when they didn't win and persevering when things went wrong. They were very keen to have a go with the space hoppers that Class 4 used, so on Friday we did our own space hopper races. When I have found the correct ipad with photos on, I will share them!

On Friday The Word Guerilla, Dave Bowden visited the school. He performed for the children in the morning and then led a poetry-writing session with them in the afternoon. It was incredibly engaging for the children and we will continue with some poetry writing as a result next week. 

Finally, although we didn't have a Forest School session we have been going up there to water the trees and plants - we are determined they will survive the heat!

Have a good weekend!

Mrs Simpson