Maths Learning - Week Beginning 21st March.

This week the children have been working on the vertical method for addition.  Using equipment such as Numicon or base ten equipment the children have been ensuring they know which is the tens digit and which is the ones.  How to add the ones first and what happens when they add up to 10 or more.  Try adding two or more two digit numbers at home and see what your child manages to do.

Literacy Learning - Week beginning 21st March 2016

This week the children have become tour guides, they have been challenged to write a brochure about The Gambia, using their new found knowledge and lots of persuasive language the children have completed the brochures complete with pictures.  We were really impressed with how much the children have remembered about our most recent topic and how they are choosing to write their sentences.

Home learning for Easter - 26.3.16

Over the Easter holidays we have set a piece of learning linked to our RE lessons.  The children have started retelling the Easter story and need to finish this over the holidays.  The stories so far have been given to the children to bring home, but if it has gone missing why not tell the Easter story in your own way!  We look forward to seeing the finished results after the Easter break.  Have a lovely holiday.

A fun and sunny visit to MC farm!

Year 2 on Wednesday for the morning visited Maiden Castle farm with a 'spring focus' upon the class. Hazel welcomed us all and took us about the farm to focus upon the food made for feeding cattle as well as looking for sings of spring. The children got to met the different types of cattle that the farm has. So many questions were rolling out of the children, clearly displaying their inquisitive natures as well as making links to real life learning - fantastic!

We then went to see the lambs - aaahhh! We all enjoyed this time, again the children learnt a little about life cycles in the event of sheep and lambs. They saw the process in which the mums are kept in and then when the lambs are born. They also learned about what happens if lambs are a little weak and also what techniques they use to try to reconnect mums who do not respond initially to their young. Even us adults learnt lots - a big thank you to Hazel and the family for hosting us, also thank you to the parents who came along to chaperone the children.
Mrs Mewett

Maths Learning - Week beginning 14th March

This week the children have been continuing to build their speed and recall of addition and subtraction facts in readiness to use the vertical method of addition and subtraction next week.  One of the games that they have enjoyed playing is Totality.  The idea is to be the first person to get the running total to make 20.
Player A may start by placing the counter on a 6, Player B then moves that counter to another number that is next to it, say 5.  You must keep a running total so 6+5=11, so far you are on 11, you are trying to get to 20 on your turn!  Player A now must move the counter again, lets say to 3, now the total is 14.  Player B continues... lets say to 2.  Now the game is at 16 and because Player A can move to 4, they can win the game on their turn. 
Why not have a go at home, your child will show you how to play.  You could also swap it around by starting at 20 and counting down to 0 to practice subtraction, or choose a more challenging total.
Good Luck.

Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 14th March

This week the children have been writing non-chronological reports about items used in the great fire of London!  They have been thinking about how they can use adjectives to describe objects as well as use their sentence punctuation effectively.  Here is a little quiz for you!  Can you identify these three items used in the great fire of London?  Extra marks for adjectives you could use to describe them!

Spellings for Easter

On Friday we gave out a challenging list of 20 spellings to have a go at over the Easter Holidays.  I have asked the children to learn at least five, but to challenge themselves and go for all 20!  The words follow the spelling patterns that we have covered over the last few terms.  Good Luck!
They will be checked on the first Friday back after Easter.

LOOK	Cover, Write, Check (1)	Cover, Write Check (2)	Cover, Write, Check (3)
three
master
funny
race
soup
dangers
faints
written
banked
Wednesday
tweets
making
know
model
when
word
worried
metal
cupboard
graceful
babies