Hello Class 2 Parents,
This week in Class 2...
The police contacted the Bear Keepers to let the know there had been a suspicious break-in at a local supermarket. They sent a photograph: the berry aisle was in carnage and several large, muddy paws covered the floor. The children were quick to decide this was probably a bear (not a tiger, because tigers are carnivores) and, using a map the police provided, they went to investigate various other clues. They found more paw prints, a half-eaten fish by a river, a large patch of flattened grass and some brown fur stuck in a prickly bush. Finally, following these clues, they found... a brown bear. Unlike the other bears they've found, this one was fast asleep. We returned to our classroom to discuss this and talked about hibernation and the fact that the bear had to eat all those berries to prepare for winter. The children are making a plan: should they somehow transport a sleeping bear to the Bear Sanctuary, or should they simply build a den around it?
In maths:
Year 1 have continued their number work, learning how to complete a simple worksheet involving representing numbers and counting on. Again, lots of practice of counting is important and any games you play involving counting will help.
Year 2 continued their work on two-digit numbers by learning how to partition them flexibly - for example, 56 can be partitioned into 50/6, 40/16, 30/26... and so on. To practice this, you could create a pairs game, with one set of cards showing the 2-digit numbers, (eg 39, 45, 28...) and the other set of cards showing the parts - eg 20 + 19, 20 + 25, 10 + 18).
In phonics the children spent time revisiting the digraphs ai, ee, igh and oa, remembering how to read words containing them but also how to use them to spell words. Magnetic letters containing digraphs such as these ones are very useful to have around - it's easier to practice spelling with digraphs without the addition burden of writing the sounds.
In spellings the children looked at when the -ge digraph is used at the end of words (last week it was -dge, which comes after a short vowel, this week the -ge digraph comes after the other sounds!). I have added both sets of spellings to The Spelling Shed (logins are glued in the front of your child's reading record and more information is here) - please do encourage your child to play these games, as they will help with their spelling.
Forest School was shorter than usual, but lovely. It continues to be warm and try. I didn't take any photos but the children were busy in the mud kitchen, making birds' nests from the recently cut grass, building dens with sticks and looking for minibeasts.
Have a good weekend!
Mrs Simpson
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