Great phonics website!

www.phonicsplay.co.uk is a great website that has some free interactive games. WE use this website at school and the children love it! Feel free to use it at home to support your child's knowledge of letters and sounds! 

Miss Groves 

Welcome back!

Welcome back!

This half term our writing theme will be 'The Jungle' We will be researching animals from the jungle to write our own reports as well as writing our own animal stories based on 'The Tiger who came to Tea'.  Any support you could give your child on researching the Jungle over the next 5 weeks will be greatly appreciated! Feel free to share any facts you have learnt during Show and Tell on a Friday.

We will also be learning about shape, space and measures during the first 2-3 weeks back at school. Feel free to work with your child exploring different shapes and units of measure that you may have/find/use around the home.  Also, please continue to support your child with their mental maths. By the end of year 2 children will need to know their 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.

We will continue to listen to all children every week for guided reading. Please continue to listen to your child read every night and ask them questions about the book they're reading to support their comprehension and understanding of the text.

We will be doing P.E. on a Tuesday and Friday afternoon next half term. Please ensure that your child has full P.E. kit in school including; trainers, shorts, joggers, t-shirt and jumpers at all times in case these days need to change.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries or questions.

Best wishes,

Miss Groves

Position and movement

This week in maths we will be learning all about position and movement. Today we discussed the type of vocabulary we might use if we were to direct a person around the playground.

* forwards/backwards
*left/right
*straight ahead
*stop

Tomorrow we will be programming Beebots to get them from place A to B.

Building blocks

Today in maths we were trying to work systematically to solve a problem.

We had 4 different coloured cubes and we were investigating how many different combinations we could find to build them up.

We're still working on the final number!

Dissecting plants

WALT: Explore plants.

Today we dissected plants. We used scissors and our hands to take apart a plant and explore what they’re like inside.  We noticed that the plants carried a lot of water inside them and that they were squishy on the inside. We used magnifying glasses to look even closer! 

Printing!

Today we made our own prints! We used polystyrene sheets to draw and then carve a simple picture. We used pencils to carve the picture out of the polystyrene sheet.

After that, we painted then carefully. We didn't want too much paint filling up the parts we had carved! 

Tasty toast!

For English we are going to be writing instructions on how to make toast. Today we got to eat some scrumptious toast to help us build vocabulary for our instructions! We ate the toast and then discussed what the toast smelled like, tasted like, looked like and felt like.

We then created a mind map of vocabulary ready for writing instructions tomorrow!