We have managed to pack a lot into the shorter week this week and have enjoyed being out in the sunshine too. 

We have been watching our seeds and were very excited to find some were begin to grow already! Our seed diaries are starting to look really good.

 

Our English work this week has been focusing on reading and writing instructions for different purposes. We had a go at instructing our partners to move around the classroom – it took quite a lot of practice to make sure our instructions were clear and simple to avoid walking into furniture!

In Maths this week we have been using pictures or simple drawings to help us answer addition and subtraction word problems - this will be useful in our ‘Big Maths’ weekly challenges! Year 2 have also been working using arrays to work out multiplication problems.

On Thursday we learned together how to draw some of the characters from The Lorax – I am really impressed with the care and effort everyone put into their fantastic artwork! 

Congratulations to Lana for being in the Golden Book this week for showing a great attitude towards her learning this week and trying really hard, especially in Maths.

A BIG WELL DONE also to the following children who all worked really hard this week and got full marks in their spelling test – Finley, Francesca, Joshua, Oliver, Whitney, Saskia, Ellie, Lana, Caleb, Lilly, Joseph, Henry, Alfie L and Vincent! Amazing!

Homework – Due Thursday 12^th May

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

Homework this week is a reading task –

Year 1 have a phoneme spotter story to develop recognition of alternative spellings for the same sound /ee/. We often use these in our Phonics lessons so the children will be familiar with them. Read the story through first then revisit and underline or colour lightly words that contain the /ee/ sound.

Year 2 have a reading and comprehension task – read the text and then answer the questions. Please encourage your child to read the focus text independently, not read it to them.

I have also allocated another Abacus ActiveLearn game to all children this week to help practice Maths skills. This week – recognising and adding money!

A reminder that children can use school computers to complete this Maths homework if required, but please put a note in your child’s reading diary if you would like me to arrange time for them to do this.

Spellings have been given as usual.

Next week….

We will be continuing to think about using and then creating our own instructions in English. 

In Maths we will be revisiting 2D and 3D shapes.