Year Two News:
Spelling Shed last week was a big success with lots of the children engaging with the program at home and filling out their spelling sheets. This week the children will be learning the /j/ sound, but this time spelt –ge at the end of words, i.e age. From next week we will have different spelling groups so each child is appropriately challenged. I have set the children a multiplication activity on Maths Shed to coincide with our learning on counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
In maths this week, we have been learning how to order numbers and objects, as well as how to count in 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s. Today we had a small place value assessment to end the block of learning. Next week we are starting our new block – addition and subtraction. We are starting by looking at addition and subtraction facts. In English, we wrote and published our diary entries. The children all did really well at getting into character of the Lonely Beast and we had lots of fantastic pieces of writing. Next week we are looking at writing newspaper articles.
In topic this week, we looked at the countries and flags of the U.K. The children learnt about the capital cities of each country and can now place them all on a map. In R.E. we held our own Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, with card making and food tasting. Lots of the children enjoyed the apples with honey we had. In Science, we explored the different materials around the classroom and discussed their varying properties. In Guided Reading we continued reading the Green ship and started with simple comprehension questions based on what we had read.
Looking to next week, we will be choosing our School Council representative for Year 2. We will be exploring the suitability of different materials in science, drawing Jewish artefacts in R.E. and in Topic we will be researching facts about the Isle of Wight using Ipads.
The winner of our star of the week this week is Grace, well done.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Mr. Stocking and the Year 2 team.