Big Blog!!!!!!!

Home learning that I sent out on Friday is to be in by Friday the 15th March and the task is to research about the lives of Victorian Street children/orphans - inspired by our recent learning in class - you can choose how you would like to present your work - be as creative as you like.......draw or paint and add facts, make a model and add facts, write a story, write a poem, make a book, poster or powerpoint......have fun!!!!!! - If you do not have access to a computer why not try the library or the County Museum (If you still have no luck, ask one of the Year 2 team and I am sure we can lend you a book or two.) Some amazing ones have already come in - well done!

Spellings were given out on Friday - let's see everyone trying really hard - I challenge the whole class to get full marks!!!!!!!!

A Huge "thank you" to all of you who have kindly offered to come in and listen to readers - you are always welcome to come in and help with whatever you feel comfortable - just pop in and ask!!!!! We are really focusing on reading at the moment and, not only regular reading by the children at school and home, but promoting a real love of reading so if you would ever like to come in and read to the class.....maybe your favourite story at the end of the day, or indeed have any other great ideas please let me know! Perhaps photographing all the different reading that goes on around your home - where you like to read - in a couple of weeks time I will be asking the children to bring in and share their favourite book/author with the class!

Please come along on Friday to our class assembly at 9:20 - a reminder if all children could come into school on the day in their Victorian costumes and bring their uniform to change into afterwards - thank you!

Our learning about Dr. Barnardo, Jim Jarvis, Oliver Twist and various other jobs that Victorian orphans did, is inspiring us to write our own Victorian street child stories - we began by listening to the first 2 chapters of "Street Child" and being characterisation detectives - this helped us to create our own main character and think about their name, age, personality, family etc..........
In numeracy this week we are focusing on measuring length using standard units of measure and also reading scales to the nearest labelled division................

Busy, busy, busy as usual...............thank you all and keep it up Year 2.