Friday 25 November 2016

This week we have been working on identifying the features of some more 'silly' poems, such as rhyming words and adjectives and have been learning about words with silent letters, like knight and gnome!

We have also been thinking of our own adjectives to describe our monsters and have made up our own silly poems.


In Maths we have been working on counting in 10s and 2s and identifying odd and even numbers. 
I was also really impressed with everybody who had a good try at learning their 2 times table using 'Stick 'em up' - we are getting more and more confident now which is brilliant!


Rehearsals are now underway for our Christmas performance and we are all very excited! 
Letters will be sent home next week with information about costumes.


Lois was in the Golden Book this work for some great Maths work - she mastered her 2 times table over the weekend and then taught her group how to answer a tricky problem in Big Maths


Home Learning this week is to spend some time learning your lines for the Christmas play.

Begin by reading them through a few times quietly to yourself to get used to what the words say.
Then try reading them out loud to someone else – remember those big, clear voices!
Once you are confident, try it without your script!


House points will be given next week to anyone who shows us that they have been putting in some effort to learn their words.

Spellings have been given as usual.


Friday 18 November 2016

We have been enjoying lots of 'silly poems' in Class 2 this week, using our phonics to help us decode new words. We have been hunting for rhyming words and repeating patterns in the texts we read and have started to identify and use some adjectives in poems and rhymes.

In Maths we have been working on our subtraction (take-away) skills and Year 1 had great fun competing against each other in a special addition and subtraction game!


Year 2 have been working really hard with some much bigger numbers and trying to use number facts they already know, such as number bonds to 10, to help them work out missing numbers.

We had a great time walking down to Grove Piece on Thursday to see the bit of land that the Blyth Woods group will be creating a new woodland on - thank you to them and all the parents that could join us!




Samuel was in the Golden Book this week for a super piece of science work about the weather - well done!


Home Learning - 
Due Thursday 24th November

Your challenge this week is to teach someone at home 'Stick 'em up' to help you learn your 2 times table. 
See if you can do the whole thing without stopping...! 

5 house points will be given to any children that can show me they can do this by next Thursday!


Friday 11 November 2016

This week we have been thinking about poems and rhymes - this week was World Nursery Rhyme week and so we have been learning lots of these and thinking about the rhyming words in each. We acted out these rhymes in groups too.
We also created some very funny rhymes by changing the words of 'Humpty Dumpty'! 

Humpty Dumpty sat in a tree,
Humpty Dumpty fell in the sea!
All the King's horses and all the King's men,
Laughed at him and said 'Do it again!'
by Freddie

In Maths we have been focusing on measuring in cm using a ruler and have measured lots of things around our school!

On Thursday we did some problem solving - we had to build a new wall for Humpty Dumpty to sit on comfortably, that was also as tall as possible!
Some great thinking by everyone - we even had chairs added to the tops of some walls!

We were then challenged to test our walls with Humpty Dumpty sitting on top....!





Home Learning:

Due Thursday 17th November

Home Learning this week is to measure items around your house with a ruler (use your own or the paper one stuck in your book). Don't forget the 'cm' after the number!

Why not challenge yourself and see if you can ESTIMATE (make a 'clever' guess) how long each item is before measuring?

Spellings are in the blue books as usual.



Friday 4 November 2016


Welcome back!

We have been thinking about autumn this week in Class 2. We talked a lot about the different ways we celebrate in autumn - from Harvest, to Halloween and then Bonfire Night and the story of Guy Fawkes.

On Monday we made 'Invisibility Potion' for Morgana the good witch.

We had to carefully measure out each ingredient in the right order...





Then said the magic word and watched as the mixture bubbled away!


Great measuring skills everyone!

We have been thinking a lot about using ADJECTIVES (describing words) in our writing this week. We have started writing some autumn poetry using the signs of autumn we found for our home learning last week. I was so impressed with the ideas everyone came up with and we had as many as 7 adjectives in one sentence about a leaf in Year 2! WOW!






Ellie Sparkes was in the Golden Book this week for putting in 100% in every lesson and always being willing to share her ideas with others. Well done Ellie!


Home Learning 

Due Thursday 10th NOVEMBER


Your home learning this week is to write some describing words (Y1) or sentences (Yr2) using adjectives about fireworks.

As we talked about in school this week, remember to use your SENSES to help you think of ‘WOW’ words…
What can you see?
What can you hear?
What can you smell?
What can you touch (careful!)?
What can you taste (what kinds of things might you eat on Bonfire Night?)?


If you are not able to go out to see some fireworks or having some at home, you could ask an adult to help you find a video on the internet to help you, or ask Mrs Flynn or Mrs Curtis to help you find one on Monday or Tuesday lunchtime.