Every child has done themselves proud this week in Class 2!
In English this week the children have been reading a variety of short stories. Green group have been reading the story ‘Stitch the Witch’ and red have been looking at ‘Cat in a Pot’ and have been devising their ever improving sentences about what they have read. Once the children have read the story with their partner and have heard a teacher read it with expression, they are encouraged to discuss the story and answer questions. We then write sentences relating to the stories. We have also enjoyed visual literacy with short animated stories in which we have had some glorious speaking and listening sessions together. The children in Class 2 have such wonderful imaginations.
In Maths we have done lots of practical lessons involving number lines and place value, and have most recently moved on to number addition. A very important building block for us was to develop our understanding of the concept of a ‘whole’ and how it is used in our everyday maths lessons to mean an entire object or group of objects. We did practical activities with an autumn theme of using whole collections of conkers to develop their understanding of the word ‘part’ as used in their maths to represent the portions of the whole object/group of objects. Towards the end of the week the children represented this ‘part-part-whole’ relationship with pictorial representations after using appropriate apparatus. They all developed the understanding that a part cannot be greater than a whole.
In Science we have had fascinating discussions about the autumn season in which we find ourselves in and what being in an autumn climate and surroundings means to them. The children then came up with a list of ideas to suggest what to expect from an autumn setting. We are now gearing up to making some weather testing equipment next week.
In topic we have studied igloos and are in the initial stages of constructing our miniature models. We have learnt about the people whom inhabit extremely cold places in the world and what they would need in order to survive and what infrastructures they have in comparison to our own in the UK.
Our army of clay penguins are in production too……
The children have all been working really hard with their spelling practise and this has been evident in their results. Thank you for your continued support with reading and spelling practise at home. New spelling lists have gone home today and will be done next Friday in class as usual with the children.
Have a brilliant weekend together and see you on Monday.
Mr Mavin
