Today some children in year 2 began their accelerated reading journey. They completed their star reader test and will be using them once a week to access books that they have read in class. Can’t wait to see the improvement in their comprehension and reading skills!
Mrs Shaw x
What does 100 look like?
Choose a random object from your house and count out 100! Will you choose to count 100 pasta pieces, 100 pieces of cereal of even 100 socks!? Be as creative as you want to be and let’s see what 100 looks like!
If you can, put your 100 items in a bag and fetch them to show your teachers! Remember you can always send photographs to your teachers or to [email protected]
Some more examples might include:
We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Work together to see how many maths words you can think of for each letter of the alphabet! I’ll let you into a secret … J is a very tricky letter so I’ll be super impressed if anyone thinks of a maths word starting with J!
Please send your responses to [email protected] and / or bring them in to show your teachers!
We can’t wait to see how many words you come up with and who has the most creative words!
We are very excited to announce that we are launching Times Table Rockstars for our classes! Your child will be coming home this evening with login details for an exciting game to help them with their times tables. Your child’s class teacher will have set tables to practise in the garage section of the game. The more they play in this section the faster they will progress through the tables they need to learn. We will be checking the ‘heat map’ each week to see your child’s progress and move them to the next table once they have learned the one they have been set. You can set your own tables in the jamming section but try to stick to ones the children are currently learning…2s, 5s and 10s for year 1 and 2s, 5s, 10s and 3s for year 2. I have attached a video here and a letter here which will give you more information about the game and it’s different levels.
Any questions please see your child’s class teacher.
ROCK ON ROCKSTARS!!!!!!!!!
Here are some ideas for further study with your children at home. Please choose some ideas from the homework menu to practise with your child at home. We love to see what you have been working on and always share it in our crew sessions.
Have fun completing some of these activities together!
Mrs Shaw and Miss Good x x
In our year 2 guided reading group, we have been using our inference and retrieval skills to answer questions about a text we have been reading this week. There has been some super skimming and scanning work happening as well as predictions about what will happen in the text.
Well done guys! Your reading is improving all of the time!
Mrs Shaw x
The children had a wonderful time this morning with Mr Kershaw, we even got to use our expedition learning while we made music with different natural elements. We had some great discussions about the sounds that we could make and the differences in pitch and volume different objects made. Some children even performed some wonderful tunes too. What a wonderful morning!
A huge thank you to all of our year 2 parents who came along today to support the children in year 2 with their exercise and fitness!
I was blown away, not only by the fact that all children were fully involved but also by the amount of parents and grandparents that joined in (and dare I say enjoyed our zumba class?)
We saw lots of smiles, laughing and some really great dancers! A special shout out to all of the dads that got involved too, you were awesome!
Thank you so much for supporting your children’s learning as always, we really do appreciate it!
I need to also give a shout out to Mrs Rayner who not only taught some very complicated dance moves to 60 children but also to our parents too- you were amazing!
Thanks, Mrs Shaw and the year 2 team x x
Just a little reminder that class 8 and 9 will be holding their family learning tomorrow (Wednesday 25th January) at 2pm. Please come dressed in appropriate clothing as we are going to enjoy a fun keep fit session together with the children. We are learning all about healthy bodies and exercise is a very important part of this…healthy bodies, healthy minds!
Can’t wait…see you all then!
Mrs Shaw and Miss Good
This week our phonics group are learning the new grapheme:
ear
Near and dear.
