Class 2
Friday 27th November 2020
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It's Friday again - the weeks seem to be flying by. We've had another busy week writing our Journey stories. The children are showing real stamina for writing and have been really proud of themselves when they've written more than a page!
In maths, we've gone bonkers about shape! We've been using a ruler to draw our own shapes and thinking about their names. The children have been keen to know what ten sided shapes are called!
Homework for this week can be found on TEAMS - please check it out.
Stay safe and have a great weekend!
Mrs B
Homework Friday 20th November
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Happy Friday everyone. It feels like quite an achievement to get to the end of each week. Thank you to everyone who joined the TEAMS test on Tuesday, it really helped me to understand what can be achieved and what we might do if (I do hope it is an if) we have to close our bubble. It was lovely to see all your faces on screen.
This week has been anti-bullying week and we have been talking a lot about kindness. There is a poster task on TEAMs this week relating to this. We have also started to write our 'Journey' story, which we will continue next week:
Spellings are on Spelling Shed - please have a look at these - as we are really focusing on phonics in the classroom at the moment, we have had less time to practise spellings...
door
floor
poor
because
find
kind
mind
behind
child
children
In the blue homework book there are some more real and alien words to read through - please tick if your child can read them independently. Mathletics this week is about representing numbers in tens and one.
Have a safe weekend!
Mrs B x
Homework 13/11/20
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Another busy week has been and gone, with Remembrance Day, Children in Need and the flu vaccination! We've also been learning about Diwali plus all our usual learning. Today we began a little bit of Christmas display work - all classes will be creating a Christmas tree for the hall display so children will see that from the 1st of December when they go for their lunches.
Thank you for all your support with homework and the phonics reading. We started the phonics checks yesterday and they will carry on each Thursday for the next few weeks. In maths we have been adding and subtracting using the 100 square to help us, the children have become very fluent at this...
Mathletics homework this week is all about adding and TEAMs is about the Arctic. I've set a task using Flipgrid - there is a QR code in the children's homework books and instructions on the TEAMs assignment. PLEASE have a go at this as it looks really fun and is a little experiment as to what we can achieve on TEAMS. I'm also going to be doing a live mini lesson on TEAMS next Tuesday at 4:00pm. More information will follow by text!
This week's spellings on Spelling Shed are:
| write | |
| written | |
| wrong | |
| wrap | |
| wren | |
| wrecked | |
| wrapped | |
| wriggle | |
| wrestle | |
|
wrote |
Have a fabulous weekend and stay safe!
Mrs B
Homework 06/11/20
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Well that's week 1 done! It's been nice to be back in the classroom and get on with learning, especially in a world which feels ever-changing at the moment. Rest assured, in school we are staying positive and just cracking on with all our new learning and topics. If you haven't looked at the Autumn Curriculum letter, then please do. You can download it here.
We've been busy designing our puppets this week, and the children even had a go at making their own 'pattern', ready to use next week when we cut out our designs. We had some amazing ideas:
This week's homework is Mathletics - doubling/halving and odds/even (we need to get the trophy back from Y1 , so please do as much as possible!). Spelling Shed with the 'soft c' sound:
race
ice
cell
city
fancy
face
space
bicycle
circle
spicy
Blue books have a real and alien word activity - please read through the words with your child and tick if they can do them without any help. I'll be completing the missed Y1 phonics check over the next few weeks.
Finally, to keep you checking in with TEAMs, there's a little task on there.
I hope you have a fun, safe weekend - I feel a lot of snuggling in with movies and Lego coming on!
Take care,
Mrs B x
Happy Holidays!
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So we've made it to the holidays (well almost for me!). A huge congratulations to the children for a brilliant first half term. We've had a lot to cope with but we've done it and it was an absolute pleasure to speak to you all at parent's evenings this week.
This week we've enjoyed learning all about Amy Johnson and the children wrote their longest piece of writing yet! I was super impressed about all the facts they had remembered about her - why not ask them all about it!?
No formal homework for the holidays - please enjoy some precious family time together. After the hols, I'm going to do the 'Number Bonds to 10 Challenge'. So if you want to do any work - then practise the number bonds to 10 (1 + 9, 2 + 8, 3 + 7, 4 + 6, 5 + 5). Children NEED to be really fluent at this - so that it really becomes instinctive. The challenge will be to stand up and have numbers thrown at them (not literally!) and they have to respond with the correct number bond. So I might say '6', they need to shout back '4'! We'll have a competition to see how many they can get right in 1 minute. All children will be invited to have a go (if they don't want to do it in front of everyone, they can do it just with me!).
Don't forget to join in our balloon race:
Have a lovely holiday, stay safe and see you on the 2nd of November!
Mrs B x