We are enjoying repeatedly reading our class novel, Naughty Bus by Jan and Jerry Oke, and using it to inspire our reading and writing lessons too. The real photos and way the words are printed in the book has ignited lots of interesting discussions.
The word swim looks like it’s sinking.
Saving me looks like it’s being hooked by the powerful winch.
Help at home by taking discussing how authors use text or pictures in books to affect the reader.
Our new Science mini-topic is here below. We also designed some posters about what we can do to look after our Earth.
Help at home by talking about how we can care for our planet.
In our Living and Learning sessions we have been talking about our feelings, and in particular, strong emotions. We all have felt angry, sad and happy at some point. We identified different emotions and when we might have felt them. We talked about how emotions can feel overwhelming but will pass over time.
1,2B had our turn in The Hub this week completing our fruit salad recipe.
We peeled, chopped, sliced and segmented our hearts out! The best part is the tasting though, of course.
Help at home by involving your child in food preparation and cooking. It helps with sequencing, fine motor control, maths, science and so much more!
As part of our reward system at school, we work as a class to achieve a short term target. We have been trying to come in after lunch and work on our spellings quietly. It’s taken a bit longer than some other targets, but we achieved our 10 smiley faces this week. We all get a vote on what we’d like our reward to be. It was a landslide for the new adventure playground!
Help at home by helping your child choose a target they can work towards, with a reward at the end!
During weekly art sessions, we focus on different art skills, often in our ‘Arty Ideas’ books. This week, we were looking at regular and irregular patterns. We discussed what makes a pattern regular or irregular and then had a go at creating some of our own. It was great to see how each pattern is unique, just like the children!
Help at home by looking for patterns around your house or environment (eg wallpaper, flooring, walls, fences).
We are starting to look more closely at numbers to 20, exploring their composition in terms of tens and ones. We will be ordering and comparing numbers, as well as representing them in different ways.
Help at home by counting forwards and backwards to 20. Talk about how many tens and ones are in numbers eg 14 is made of ten and four.
The year 2s have begun to learn about multiplication and division. We are counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and then linking this to calculations. We are spending time talking about what each number represents in a calculation.
Help at home by encouraging your child to play on Times Tables Rockstars and watch BBC Supermovers videos.
We had a fabulous fun-filled day at Abbey House Museum today, learning about life in the past. The children asked and answered some interesting questions. They represented Scholes Elmet Primary School brilliantly.
As our class novel, and focus book for reading and writing learning, we have been reading The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis.
It is a lovely story and has enabled us to infer the characters’ feelings from the pictures and text. We have also talked about wild animals and nature.
We have used extracts to work on our reading fluency, identify conjunctions and use our phonics to spell words. The children have also written some sentences using conjunctions too.
Help at home by talking about The Bog Baby story. What would you do if you found a beautiful little creature? There is a video version here, read by the author. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)