We have had another busy week in Class 2 this week – we had a cinema afternoon on Monday and had to work out how to make the right amount of money to buy a ticket and some popcorn, before we watched the rest of ‘The Lorax’ in preparation for our next topic lessons. 

 

On Thursday we had a very exciting afternoon when a special package arrived from The Lorax himself with some precious seeds in for us to grow – we are hoping they will grow to be the Truffula trees! We decided to create a seed diary to record their growth as part of our Science topic on plants.

We have continued our work on retelling stories from the point of view of another person, using the story ‘Farmer Duck’ this week. This culminated in a super ‘Big Write’ session in which the children produced some really lovely recounts of the story – well done! We have started to think about how we can use exclamation marks in our writing.

In Maths this week we have been thinking about place value and partitioning 2-digit numbers into 10s and 1s (units). Year 2 have also been working on rounding up and down. 

  

Thank you to those parents who attended the Phonics Screening share morning on Wednesday – I will be sending some information and activities home next week to help your child practice at home. If you were not able to attend but have any questions or concerns please feel free to make an appointment to come and see me at another time.


Congratulations to Whitney for being in the Golden Book this week for her fantastic Big Write!

Saskia and Whitney were also awarded Writing Superstar awards for some beautifully presented work this week, which will be displayed on our Wonderful Writing wall in the main corridor.

A BIG WELL DONE also to the following children who all worked really hard this week and got full marks in their spelling test – Ellie, Francesca, Saskia, Harley, Harry, Alfie L, Joseph and Lilly. 



Homework – Due Thursday 5th May.

Homework this week is some practice using partitioning and place value to consolidate what we have learned in class this week. 

Spellings have also been given as usual.


Next week….

We will be starting to think about the features of instructions – reading and then planning and writing our own instructions using ‘bossy’ language.

In Maths we will be thinking about a range of problems - including word problems - and using arrays and pictorial representations to help us work out the answer and for Year2, how to ‘PROVE IT’!

We will also be continuing our topic work about ‘The Lorax’ and combining what we have watched with our English work to help us reflect on and retell the story, including through role play.