Year 2 have been doing some special work in the ‘Secret Agent Training Service’ this week – we have created ID badges and collected fingerprints from the adults around the school to make sure no-one can enter our Top Secret Mission Room without being invited! We have also had a go at writing secret messages in code – quite tricky but great fun!

The children have all completed some tricky challenges which really tested their Maths and English skills – I’m very proud of everyone’s hard work over the past few days, well done!

We have continued thinking about reading and writing instructions this week. We read ‘How to wash a woolly mammoth’ and used what we knew about instructions to write ordered, clear steps to help keep these giant animals clean!

In Maths we have been revisiting how to find fractions of shapes and quantities. We have done lots of practical activities to help us work out halves and quarters.

On Thursday the children were challenged to decorate a cupcake so that it could be shared equally into 4 (quarters) and everyone would have an equal piece, with the same decorations on – some fantastic problem solving from everyone meant we were all able to enjoy some cake afterwards!

                      

We have been watching and recording the progress of our special seeds with excitement again this week – lots more are beginning to grow now!

Congratulations to Freddie for being in the Golden Book this week for some super work and a positive attitude, especially in Maths, this week.

A BIG WELL DONE also to the following children who all worked really hard this week and got full marks in their spelling test – Reuben, Finley, Ellie, Saskia, Whitney, Poppy, Caleb, Joseph, Connor, Alfie L and Lilly! Fantastic!

Homework – Due Thursday 26^th May

Don’t forget House Points can be earned for homework handed in early!

Homework this week is based on our story ‘How to wash a woolly mammoth’ - choose or create an animal and then think about their needs. What would someone need to know, think about or do if they had to take care of them for the day? We will be using this to write some instructions next week!

Please keep practising the Abacus ActiveLearn games – completed games can be found in ‘My Library’ once logged in.

Spellings have been given as usual.

Next week….

As next week is the last week of term, we will be concluding our work on fractions in Maths and instructions in English ready for new topics when we come back after half term.

We also have a special visitor coming to see us on Monday morning...!