English

This week we started to look at instructions, we had lots of fun playing a game of Simon Says to learn how to follow instructions and then went on to write our own instructions for a game board we invented in partners.

Maths

Year 1 – have been looking at ordinal numbers this week (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc) and answering questions about number lines. They have also recapped on estimating and what it means to make a sensible guess. Today we will be filling in missing numbers on a number line.

Year 2 – have been learning how to answer multiplication questions. We spoke about the different vocabulary for multiplication before we started to show working out using equipment, drawing pictures and arrays and finally writing multiplication sentences.

Phonics

Year 1 – recapping on the ‘igh’ and ‘oa’ phoneme.

Year 2 – looking at the ‘n’ sound spelt ‘gn’ and ‘kn’.

Spellings to be tested Friday 21st October 2016.

14-10-16

Have a good weekend 🙂

Miss Edwards

We have had another busy week in Class 2.

English

The children have been writing their own versions of fairy tales this week. We started with picture cards to help inspire us and verbally told each other stories we had invented. We have spoken about the structure of stories and the importance of planning a clear beginning, middle and end. Year 2 children were challenged to identify past, present and future tense and they learned how to write in the past tense. We have worked hard with our punctuation use this week – year 1 have focussed on their use of capital letters and full stops whilst year 2 have also looked at this as well as using question marks and exclamation marks. Today we have written our final versions of our fairy stories!

Maths

This week’s focus has been subtraction.

Year 1 – have been learning that subtraction is also known as ‘taking away’. We have worked hard to write number sentences and using the correct symbol. The children have learned to use different methods to help them take away, using equipment, pictures and counting backwards. Today we have been identifying subtraction in word problems.

Year 2 – have been learning how to take away single-digit numbers from a two-digit number using a number line. They have also been subtracting using the context of money. We have taken away 10 from two-digit numbers using a hundred square – they recognised that we use the opposite method of addition and jump up the number square by one. Today we have been identifying subtraction in word problems.

Phonics

Year 1 – Have looked at the ‘ng’, ‘ai’ and ‘ee’ sounds this week.

Year 2 – Have focussed on the ‘r’ sound spelt ‘wr’.

PE

Just a reminder that children are expected to have a full PE kit in school each week.

Geography

We have had fun with our topic this week and discussed what we would need if we went to the Polar Regions. The children thought of lots of brilliant ideas e.g. warm clothing, torches, food, shelter, etc. Some even suggested hot chocolate!

Science

In Science, we thought about plants and trees and which animals choose the Oak tree as their habitat. We have also looked at a range of different seeds and how these are dispersed e.g. the wind, on animal fur, etc.

Spellings

Here are this week’s spellings to be tested on Friday 14^th October.

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Have a lovely weekend 🙂

Miss Edwards