Hello Class 2 Parents,
I hope you have been having a good week so far. It was good to catch up with you at parents' evening this week - hopefully you received a copy of the useful info booklet, but in case you didn't, here they are:
Year 1
Harvest was a great success - the children performed their poem magnificently! Thank you for all of your donations.
In Class 2 this week...
The children redesigned their bear sanctuary following the realisation that the bear species needed to have their own enclosures. They also heard about a sloth bear that has escaped its wildlife park and are deciding how they can help - did you know that sloth bears have a long snout with no front teeth, to enable them to suck up ants and termites like a vacuum cleaner?!
In writing the children have completed an independent piece of writing this week - we started with lots of practice on whiteboards before the children wrote their own.
In maths the Year 2 children have finished their unit on place value and have started work on addition. So far, they have been representing simple additions within ten, using counters, which will help them to visualise these number bonds as they start to do more complex additions. The Year 1 children have been using the terms 'greater than', 'less than' and 'equal to' to compare quantities - learning how to line up objects to compare them.
In phonics the children looked at the trigraphs air and ear. it is very common to confuse these two. To help this week, play Obb and Bob on Phonics Play. Select 'phase 3' and then either 'ear' or 'air' to play with and help your child to sound out and blend the words.
In spellings this week's spelling pattern is 'wr'. The word list has been added to The Spelling Shed for you.
Forest school was great, with none of the rain the morning saw! We had a happy hour or so building dens, making a racecar from the loose parts and planting some conkers (we are hoping for some conker trees at Forest School in a few years' time!)
Apologies for the lack of photos - it's been a bit of a busy week!
Have a good weekend!
Mrs Simpson
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