Y2 Maths – divide
Our focus in Maths at the moment is divide. Divide means to share equally. Equal means the same.
This week we are dividing by 5. We have been looking at lots of number stories and discussing exactly what each number in our equations represent.
‘The 15 represents all of the eggs.”
”The 5 represents the eggs in each nest.”
”The three represents the number of nests.”
We drew part-whole models to show how many fives make up a number. When we are thinking about multiples of 5, we know that the ones column must have either a 0 or a 5 in it.
”54 is not a multiple of 5 because even though it has a 5 in it, it is in the tens column. It needs to be in the ones column to be a multiple of 5.” (BC, 2C)
Help at home: by writing out dividing equations and really discussing what each number represents!
Remember – We always put the ‘big’ number at the start of a divide equations. This is the number we are dividing/ sharing.
Living and learning : strong emotions
We watched this story called Beegu. It is all about an alien who
(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.)
KS1 – A little early World Book Day treat
Today, all three KS1 classes had the amazing opportunity to experience a zoom call with the renowned author Julia Donaldson and the talented illustrator Axel Scheffler.
The session started with Axel Scheffler reading us the story ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’. He then drew Bill and Janet from the story. We had a go at drawing along… but it was very fast!
Julia Donaldson then read us her story ‘Tiddler’. It was really lovely to hear for ourselves how she had imagined the voices would sound in the story. We listened attentively before Axel Scheffler then showed us how to draw Tiddler and Little Johnny Dory.
What a great start to the week!
Help at home: There are so many Julia Donladson stories, perhaps you could share some of them together at home. You can also find animated versions of the stories that we heard today a on BBC iplayer.
The Smeds and The Smoos
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gncf/the-smeds-and-the-smoos
Tiddler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026dm6/tiddler
Welcome back!
2C have had a fantastic first week back in school. On Monday we started our DT food and we made overnight oats. Most of the children enjoyed the food and took a recipe home to try it out (maybe with a few tweaks)!
We’ve started to divide by 10 in Maths and we’ve looked at the relationship between multiply and divide.
‘If I know 10 x 2 = 20 then I know that 20 / 10 = 2’.
The children have continued to learn to join up their hand writing and have been writing some sentences about our new class novel ‘Ollie’s Magic Bunny by Nicola Killen.’
Well done for a great first week back at school 2C!
1A – Our Geography Journey
Learning about the streets around our school has been lots of fun. We have carried out fieldwork, presented data around our findings and written persuasive letters to Miss Hague.
During our fieldwork in Scholes village, we noticed that there wasn’t a safe place for people to cross the road safely near the Peace Flame and we saw how an older gentleman took a while to cross over to the bus stop. Another of our observations was that there was a lot of litter around the school gates. We really weren’t happy about that! Especially as there was not much litter elsewhere in Scholes! We decided to investigate further and carried out some more fieldwork. This time it would be on the school grounds.
During this fieldwork, we counted how many pieces of litter we could see on the KS1 playground, KS2 playground and the adventure playground. We weren’t happy to find that there was a lot of litter on the school grounds and we discussed how we could help the situation. Miss Hague often goes litter picking into Scholes village with some KS2 children and we wondered if she’d buy some litter pickers for KS1 too. We wrote some persuasive letters to her to try and convince her that it would be money well spent for school.
We eagerly await her decision…
Y2 Football
Well done again to our fantastic Year 2 football teams for playing some fantastic football this Monday evening. Our next game will be Monday 24th March.
Thank you again to FOSP for the brilliant football kits, and to parents for bringing their children along!
Miss Young
Yoga
For the last 2 weeks of half term we are doing yoga in PE. We are LOVING IT! We start the learning off with some breathing exercises, then practise some yoga poses. We put 3/4 balances to create a ‘flow’ and then have a go at creating our own balances.
On our mats we practised lots of low and high poses.
We also did some balancing in pairs and in threes!
Geography fieldwork
We have really enjoyed the fieldwork part of our geography topic this half term. We surveyed the village and our school grounds, thinking about litter, noise, traffic and plants. Our locality is really nice!
We did notice quite a bit of litter around school so we are going to pick it up.
Help at home by talking about how we can positively impact the environment (eg picking up litter, recycling, planting trees).
PE – yoga
We are doing some yoga lessons to finish this half term. Being aware of our bodies, balancing and stretching were great exercise. We loved the paired poses!
Living and learning: NSPCC – Speak Out, Stay Safe
As part of our Living and Learning lesson this week we watched a virtual assembly.
Sometimes things make us happy and sometimes they can make us sad, worried or unhappy. It’s important to understand our feelings and not keep worries to ourselves and that’s what we would like children to know. We talked about trusted adults inside and outside of school.
