A huge thank you to everyone that came today for our Children in Need Ramble and Cake Sale - it was great to see so many children enjoying the afternoon sunshine with their families and hopefully we have raised a good amount for the Children in Need charity and also some to put into our play equipment fund!

We have had another busy week this week and have been using our maths resources to help us add 2 numbers together. In Year 2 we were using equipment like Numicon and Base 10 ('chips and peas'!) to help us check Mrs Flynn's work - we had to work out and then, more importantly, prove whether each calculation was right or wrong! 

Some children demonstrated some absolutely super thinking skills, well done!

"12 add 4 isn't 18, it should be 16, look!"

"3 = 8 - 5 - that one is right because I can get 8 then cover up 5 and I have 3 left!"

We have been reading the story 'What the ladybird heard' this week and as well as acting our parts of the story and adding some sounds for the animal noises, we have been using it to learn about adjectives - the 'grown up' word for describing words! 
I was amazed by some of the descriptive language used this week 😊


Home Learning
Due Thursday 23rd November

Your home learning is to complete the adjectives activity that is stuck into your home learning books. 
See if you can use the most interesting describing word you can think of for each one!

Year 2 have been working on finding out 'fact families' for different numbers. We realised that we can use the same 3 numbers to write lots of different number sentences!
It was a bit tricky to begin with but we persevered and have learned lots!

Year 1 have been building on what we learned last week using our 'part-whole' models to add 2 numbers together. We have been using resources like cubes, counters and our fingers to help us.

Some of us even chose to have a bit more practice during our free learning time! WOW!

Because this weekend lots of us will be celebrating Remembrance Day we talked about why we wear poppies and that we have a 2 minute silence to remember and say thank you to our soldiers that have fought in wars all around the world. 

We made some poppies to take home and wear too!

Home Learning
Due Thursday 16th November

We have had quite a busy week in Class 2!

Thank you to everyone that came along to our Maths 'share' morning on Tuesday - it was great to see the children showing off all of the things they learned last term!

Here are a few photos of the amazing work produced!

 

We have been reading 'The Magic Bed' by John Burningham and have been using our imaginations to think about where we might go if we had a magic bed!

We will be having a go at writing our own stories based on this book next week.

In Maths we have been using the 'part-whole' model to help us split up numbers and write addition number sentences. 

The Year 2s have been being the 'teacher' for the Year 1s and explaining how they have been working out how to do this with bigger numbers, or how they have managed to find ALL of the possible ways to split up a number! Super!

Iris was in the Golden Book this week for consistent hard work in class and also for a fantastic piece of home learning over half term - it was clear you had put so much thought and effort into this, so well done!

Ava was also in the Golden Book for settling in to our class so well this week!

Home Learning

Due Thursday 9th November 

Your home learning this week is to complete the 'part-whole' calculations in your home learning book.

Remember - If you need to use counters/blocks or anything else you have at home to help you, please do!