27th February

Welcome to our blog. We all hope you had a good break and are raring to go.

Please remember that we have three parent’s evenings this week on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

Class photographs on Thursday.

Dress up day for world book day on FRIDAY.

Homework

The children will receive homework again and will have a set of new spellings to learn.

The Year 2 spellings this term are based on Year 2 National Curriculum spelling ending and the common exception words that the Year 2 must use in their independent writing.

There will be a spelling test every week. A few children have not been learning the spellings and this could really help them in their writing if they do.

They have got a comprehension to do every week too as well as sentences or writing target depending on what they have been told in their homework book.

Reading

The children need to read at home at least three times a week. The children need to be heard read even if they are a free reader. It really helps them if you can talk about the book and ask them why something is happening or how something is happening as well as about the story or information itself. We find that the children who read at home make more progress than those who do not.

The Year 2 have to read 90 words a minute with a familiar text.

Thank you for your support.

RE

The children will be starting  a new topic MEALS. The children will be thinking about different types of meals and special meals. They will be thinking about where and when special meals take place.

Phonics

A few helpful sites.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

http://www.magickeys.com/books/phonics.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/eeAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/aiAltSpellings.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PlanetaryPlurals.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PondLifePlurals.html

Mrs Sarsfield

English

This week we will be completing a reading comprehension along with other reading activities. We will also be writing a diary about our holidays and researching and writing facts about animals.

Maths
This week we will be consolidating addition and subtraction facts. This will start with doubles, pairs to 10 and near pairs to 10 and adding 2 and 3 digits in a variety of ways. We will also use pairs to 10 to add multiples of 10 to 100. Eg 2 + 8 = 10, so 20 + 80 =  100.

Year 1/2

English.

This week we will be learning to write instructions. We will be thinking about what makes a good set of instructions and the features we need to include.

We will be writing instructions on how to make an Extravagant Sandwich, in addition to looking at instructions for making pancakes and jam sandwiches.

We will be learning about commands and imperative (bossy) verbs. We will also complete a reading comprehension and guided reading activities.

Maths.

This week we will be looking at addition and subtraction. Year 2 will be looking at how addition can be done in any order but subtraction cannot. We will move in to solving lots of addition and subtraction problems to help develop our knowledge and fluency.

Year 1 will be revising their number bonds and practising adding and subtracting numbers in lots of different ways.

Year 2 English

This week we will be learning all about traditional tales again.

We will be reviewing what we need in a traditional tale. We will be thinking about good and bad characters.

We will be reviewing different types of sentences, noun phrases and time connectives.

We will be introducing speech marks too.

Year 2 Maths

This week we will be learning about telling the time.

We will be reviewing telling the time.

Year 2 need to tell the time to the nearest five minutes.

The children need to know time facts off by heart such as 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day etc.

The children will be completing a timetables test and mental maths test too.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Topic.

This week we will be starting our new topic ‘How are we all different?’ which has a science focus, linking to the National Curriculum topic ‘Animals, including Humans’.

We will start the topic by looking at how we grow and change as we get older. We will complete an investigation to find out if we become ‘faster’ at completing things such as writing our numbers, as we get older.

Best wishes

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield
Miss Birchall
Mrs Lockett

Miss Dugdale