Word of the Week
To develop the children’s
vocabulary, we are introducing a ‘Word of the Week’. We will be encouraging the children to refer
to our words of the week when they are writing (and speaking!). The more they hear new vocabulary, the more
they are likely to use it. If you spot
anything that’s vast,
please share this with your child.
English Wonderful World of
Mini-beasts
We have been exploring poetry
this week. We have listened to and
performed a variety of poems on the theme of Mini-beasts. The children have enjoyed discussing what
they like and don’t like about each poem and then justifying these opinions.
“I like the eeny meeny
mini-beast poem because I like the alliteration and rhyme.”
We picked out synonyms (words
that are similar) and antonyms (words that are opposite)
Gliding/floating squiggly/wriggly hurrying/scurrying
Maths
We have been revising number
- counting different representations of numbers to 100 and representing numbers using different resources. This is to secure children's understanding of place value and what each digit represents. For example, which number is bigger - 42 or 42? Why?
We used bead strings, Numicon, Base 10, coins and words to represent the numbers.
We have been focusing on 2-digit numbers and securing our understanding of what each digit represents. Please ask your child how many tens and ones there are in any numbers you see.
We have also been practising counting up and down in 1s, from any number. Please can you keep practising this at home, especially when you 'cross the tens', eg 60 to 59, 50 to 49. This will really help your child's addition and subtraction learning if they are secure counting up and down to 100.
A good game to play to practise understanding of place value is lions and tigers (see below).
Take turns to roll the dice and decide if you will put the number in the tens or ones column. The winner is the person who has made the largest number.We have also been learning to write numbers in words. Some children are finding this very tricky! We will keep practising at school, but please practise writing numbers in words to one hundred, thank you.
Art
This week we explored
different techniques when working with clay.
The children rolled, squeezed, squashed, pinched, carved, and hollowed the
clay using their hands. They then used a variety of
tools to make holes, draw lines of different thickness and create texture.
The children thoroughly
enjoyed trying out the different techniques and sharing their discoveries with
their classmates.
Finally, the children
practised joining two pieces of clay using slip. They cross-hatched each piece of clay and
then used some slip to act as glue to join both pieces. We were also very impressed with the way they worked as a team to help tidy away, we hope they will demonstrate this skill at home too!
At home, you could use a modelling material to further explore the
techniques we used. Can you find any new
methods of shaping or marking the clay that you can share with the class next
week?
Science
We have been looking at
British habitats. The children were very
good at sorting the animals and plants into the different habitats. We had a good discussion about foxes and
crabs. Perhaps you could explore some habitats in your own
gardens – what animals and plants can you discover?
Reminders
Please remember coats and
wellies need to be in school at all times.
Children are reminded to
change their reading
books and each class has been
provided with a slot so that the children are not at risk of crossing bubbles. Thank
you for your patience with this.
Please ensure your child has
a named water
bottle with them each day.
If your child has milk
each day, please speak to them about the importance of drinking it – there’s a
lot being poured away after only a couple of sips.
We are missing not being able
to speak to parents at the beginning or end of the day. Thank you for your understanding whilst we
navigate new systems that are there to keep us all safe. Please do contact the office via email if you have a
questions or would like to share something with us.
Have a lovely weekend!
The Year 2 Team
