We would have loved to go here for our Victorian Christmas Topic:
The children have been working hard to complete their sandwich design project in DT over the last couple of days. Each child will be bringing home their sandwich which they have designed, costed, made the box for, examined fat content for and made! Please help your child to have a taste and write up the evaluation and return it to school for a Superhero point. Well done everyone, the sandwiches look fantastic, very professional!
This Friday we will be doing PE outside! Brrrrrr! You are welcome to pack extra warm tracksuits, socks and jumpers. The reason for this is that we now have the stage in the school hall and still need to get the children fit and active! Please bring them in a named plastic bag and hang them on your child's peg. Many Thanks!
We have had some amazing entries to the Premier League competition so far. The children have surprised me with their amazing poetry writing skills. What a high standard! There is still time to bring in your entries so please bring them to school as soon as possible.
Another reminder. We need a couple of costumes for the next couple of weeks: We will be going to the priest house museum on Tuesday 5th December, the children will need a Victorian costume for this day. Please ensure that the children have a few layers to put on so that they don't get cold. We will reuse this costume during the Spring Term for our Victorian's day and our class assembly for the spring term.
Red Group: Using the apostrophe for contractions - I've, can't, don't, haven't, they're, you're, weren't
This week we have been practicing our letter writing skills. We have been perfecting the letter lay out that we will be using for our big write next Friday. (Please see home learning activity). We have looked at address writing and even written out our own self addressed envelope. We have read the Jolly Postman and even Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown, who ends up being sent through the post in an envelope! The children will be sending their own Flat versions of themselves when they complete their letters in next week's big write.
Next week we will be having our second Big Write of the year. We have decided to send letters to important people, friends and family or maybe even Farther Christmas! For home learning the children have bought home their planning sheets, they have decided who to send their letters to, but need your help in finishing off their plans. Firstly the children need to find the address of the person to whom they with to write and write it on the sheet. Also you could help your child draft out what they would like to write by using the lined paper on the back of the sheet. We will be writing next Friday morning, so there is a whole week to think about what to write.
Today we have sent some of the lines for the Christmas Play home. This is a reading task and I would like everyone to have a go at reading them at home until they are really confident. This is only part of the performance, there are a few other lines and lots of song words to learn as well. Narrating the story is all about quality of speech no matter how many lines you have, so practice, practice, practice! 3 weeks to go until the performance!
A big well done go to Jasper and Phillippa for representing the school at Multiskills this week. Overall with year 1 as well they came second in the competition. What a great effort! It was brilliant to see how Indi-Rose and Jason have been raising money for Children In Need by reading lots of books and landing bottle flips! Everyone got into the spirit of Children In Need by wearing fantastic costumes to school today. Lots of children have been extending their learning at school into learning at home, fantastic to see how inspired to learn you all are! It was also amazing to see Florence visiting a book signing and having her own original portrait drawn by the artist! Well done everyone for rising to the challenge!This week's spellings are as follows:
This week we have been measuring in cm and m. We have learned about standard units of measurement and used tape measures, trundle wheels, metre rulers as well as scales to measure length and weight. The children have used their understanding of more than (greater than) and less than to compare these lengths and weights. At home why not use a tape measure to measure different objects?
This week we have been practicing our letter writing skills. Inspired by the Lighthouse keeper's Lunch stories we helped Mr Grinling find Hamish and rescue him from the pirates by writing letters to help him in his search, it all started with a message in a bottle, which turned out to be a map! The children have become confident in laying their letter out. They have been writing using their sentence punctuation and have used their questioning skills. Some super progress has also been made as the children used purple pen to improve their work. Later in the term the children will be writing letters for their second Big Write. These letters will be sent off, so the children will need to be able to write their address in the proper format. At home why not get the children to practice writing your address. Bring it into school for a superhero point.
This week Mrs Johnson and Mr Gibson have
launched The Premier League Stars Writing Challenge and I would like you to
have a go. You will need to write a poem
about resilience! Think about focusing,
being determined, managing distractions and perseverance, Maybe Rodney could appear in your poem. This week's spellings to learn for Friday 17th November 2017.
This half term we will need you to find a Victorian costume for your child to wear for our trip to The Priest House Museum on Tuesday 5th December. For boys shorts or trousers, a shirt, knitted jumper and cap (or variations on these). For girls a dress or skirt and shirt with maybe a shawl, apron or mob cap. It can be cold at the Priest House Museum, so please wrap up in layers under or over costume. 
The children have decided on a football and film party. The children will have a choice of either playing football outside or in the hall depending on the weather or snuggling up and watching a film. For which ever activity your child chooses they are welcome either to bring in their football kit or a pair of PJs and their favourite teddy. Half-time fruit, popcorn and hot-chocolate will be available! We will be having our party on Spellings this week are:
This week we have been concentrating on our reading skills, reading and re-reading for fluency. Reading to ourselves, to a partner and to a wider audience. We have extended our vocabulary and challenged ourselves to read new and exciting words. We have added expression to keep the audience interested and lastly, we proved our hard work by performing our new found reading skills in assembly today. Great learning Year 2!
Due to a busy couple of weeks and half term we have had a break in our normal group reading rota. Although we have been doing lots of reading in class, especially with our script reading for assembly, India day and our reading assessments. I understand that this means the children have had their current group reading books for a while now, but don't forget individual reading books, library books and books from home to supplement the group reading books. We will be resuming our usual group reading rota this week. 
I have had a few queries about the Mathletics points scoring system. Points are scored by completing tasks and answering live mathletics questions. These points are totaled on the rocket on the left of the screen. This rocket will reset every MONDAY. You have one week to try to earn 1000 points (you can score more, but there will only be one certificate each week). In the half term holidays you had the opportunity to earn three certificates because you had the first weekend (1), Monday to Sunday (2) and the final Monday of the holidays. Well done to those who managed it!
After working hard for eight weeks Year 2 have managed to fill the marble jar! It is actually overflowing! A marble is given each time the class demonstrates exemplary behaviour or effort in their learning. So now the children get to plan their reward! We will let you know what we decide to do!
