Friday 11th October

We hope you enjoyed our assembly this morning and thanks for joining in! We are very proud of all the children, especially after this difficult week. Follow the link to sing the Grasshopper Hop at home.  Ask your child to teach you the hand jive! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zhpr87h This week in English we have been focusing on a story called the Bee’s Treasure.    On Monday we read the story and then drew a story map to record the key moments in the story.  Some of us challenged ourselves to write words alongside the pictures that would help us when we retell the story. Get your child to tell you the story from their class story map.  On Tuesday we stepped the story.  We keep the words very simple so we embed the structure of the story. See how the stepping script just have a noun and a doing word. On Thursday we did a mood map to show how the  poor old man felt at different times in the story. You may like to do a mood map for another story.  Choose a main character and show how their feelings changed during the story.  Do all stories follow the same journey? We then wrote our own sentences about what happened in  the different parts of the story.   We could use these sentence starters. At the beginning of the story…… In the middle of the story… At the end of the story….. Some of us challenged ourselves to see if we could include how the old man was feeling. You may like to use these sentence starters at home with other stories. In Maths we have been continuing our learning about place value. On Monday we compared and ordered groups of objects. We used the words more than, less than, greater than, fewer than, equal to, most and least. We also used the <, > and = symbols to compare the quantity in each group. Ask your child to explain what the symbols mean. The next day we compared and ordered numbers. We rolled a ten-sided dice to make two, 2-digit numbers. We compared the numbers and recorded using the <, > or – symbols. We discussed that we should compare the tens digits first and then, if needed, compare the ones. We also completed 4x4 squares with the missing numbers or symbols. Make up a 4x4 square with some missing numbers and ask your child to fill in the missing numbers and add the correct symbols.   In Year 2 we will be practising counting forwards and backwards from zero in 2s and 5s and forwards and backwards from any number in 10. Today we looked at the patterns we notice and we practised counting fluently. We also played a game to add 2, 5 or 10 to a number. You may like to play this at home, or make up your own! Please continue to practise counting forwards and backwards from zero in 2s and 5s and forwards and backwards from any number in 10. We are encouraging the children to be as fluent as possible to help them be efficient mathematicians! We have also started to count in 3s. We looked at the pattern and made our own counting ‘stick’. Ask your child what they notice when counting in 3s.  We hope you have  good weekend, The Year Two Team