It has been another lovely week with my Class 2 Superheroes.
In English we have been reading new stories together in our RWI groups. Every child is taking a lot of pleasure from their own reading as well as that of their peers. They have probably made this evident to you when reading their stories at home.
The children have been trying to improve their writing with adjectives and simple conjunctions. They wrote for purpose about their Chester Zoo trip as a diary entry and used talk for writing beforehand in order to compose their sentences from their very vivid memories of the day. Towards the end of the week our spelling and grammar focus was using exclamation marks. They then went onto using them in a comic strip format involving their favourite superhero’s dialogue.
In maths, we have started chanting and singing our two times tables. We have been learning how to record subtraction number stories as number sentences after using practical scenarios to help us. We have also had a focus on working through both addition and subtraction number sentences systematically explaining their reasoning along the way. All of the children have contributed so well during lesson starters involving mental maths and problems solving with real life contexts with their maths partners.
In Design and Technology the children are in the initial stages of building their class house made from various pieces of cardboard. They have taken real ownership of it in their small groups and have really thought hard about its structure, and which shaped boxes would complement other parts best. We can’t wait to see what they come up with next for it!
The children did wonderfully well again with their spellings today. The new lists have gone into their books today for next Friday. Thank you for supporting your children at home with them.
An enormous congratulations to Cerys for being Class 2’s winner of Bicton’s creative writing competition. Well done also to everybody who entered. We are so proud of you and your entries.
Thank you so much for your continued support and have a lovely weekend together.
Mr Mavin

First and foremost I would like to say a massive “WELL DONE” to everybody in Class 2 for their lovely performance in their Celebration Assembly before we broke up for half term.
In English this week the children in Purple Group have been reading the RWI book ‘Ken’s Cap’ and have been answering questions and writing exciting sentences which have built up to writing a letter of apology concerning a lost item linked to both the text and their own experiences. Red Group have been reading ‘The Big Match’ and have focused on the ‘ck’ speed sound in particular when reading and writing writing this week. The children have also used their literacy skills in their topic work when devising interesting questions to ask a current scientist working in the Arctic.
During maths this week the children have continued the mastery process for addition. They have used lots of equipment and scenarios to aid their understanding of the concept. The children are also becoming very confident with recording their number sentences neatly in their books on squared paper. Today they have moved onto finding one less than a given number through subtraction, something which we will look at in greater depth next week. Another one of our next steps is to start counting confidently in two’s. I can feel a song and rhyme coming on…..
In Science we have learned how the different seasons affect animals. We looked at the Robin garden bird and how it adapts to each season. We also discussed how some animals, such as hedgehogs, hibernate in the winter months and what this means.
New spellings have gone out today to be tested next Friday 16th November. Your children are doing so wonderfully well with them and they relish their Friday challenge every time.
Our trip to Chester Zoo was a very memorable one indeed. The children were wonderfully behaved and we all thoroughly enjoyed the amazing animals we encountered. Mind you, Class 2 had the penguins at the top of their agenda.
Have a great weekend together and see you on Monday.
Mr Mavin

It has been all smiles in Class 2 this week!
In English the children have continued to read our story books through our Read Write Inc scheme. Some of the children have also focused on non-fiction texts about animals that swim and have produced some excellent sentences about things that are factual. We have also used and practised the personal pronoun ‘I’ in our work and have looked in greater depth at using capital letters for names of people and places. Each child also had a focus on particular aspects of their handwriting which they needed to show an improvement with in their work. The children did this brilliantly.
The children have had problem solving lessons in maths involving addition and partitioning numbers and relating this to number bonds within 20. The children have used lots of equipment in order to help and support them with their learning for addition. The children have now started writing complete number sentences for addition and have related them to number bonds within and to 10. In Class 2 we have started some rhymes to go with our number bonds to 10. Maybe the children can share a few with you at home!
The children have had a wonderful music lesson yet again with Mrs Tan playing their instruments to a song in complete unison. It was very easy on the ears this week and is coming together really well for them.
In other subjects the children have had the project of starting a 3D map of Antarctica from various materials. We are going to include animals on it next week when we investigate the ones which inhabit such a place and how they survive there. A very enjoyable afternoon was spent learning about the Northern Lights and why they occur as a natural phenomenon in that part of the world. We then did a step by step chalk drawing in an art lesson.
The new spelling list is in their books. The children have done wonderfully well yet again with learning them this week.
Have a lovely time together over the weekend and see you Monday!
Mr Mavin