Year Two - Fun at the Farm

The children in Year Two enjoyed their trip to Maiden Castle Farm today.

Thank you Hazel for showing us around, introducing us to the animals and talking about the different crops that have been recently harvested.

Year Two - Working hard on our "Class Trip Reports"

 

Year Two - Outdoor Learning at Upwey, Portesham and Abbotsbury

 

Well done to the children in Year Two who had fun exploring our local environment last week. We saw lots of interesting things on our day-trip adventure. 

One of the activities involved comparing old photographs with what can be seen at the same place today.

This is an old photograph of Upwey Station (when it used to be Upwey Junction) showing where the line used to branch off and head out to Abbotsbury. We stood where the track used to be and talked about how much has changed. (Although, the wall and bridge are still there today!)

Year 2 Home Learning - Friday 25th September

 

1.  – Marking the start of our “Cycling and Scooting to School Week” (next week), we would like the children to design a poster encouraging people to wear a proper cycle helmet when they are riding their bikes.

2. – Find the mistakes in these sentences. It’s fine to ask someone at home for a bit of help with this.

Can you find the mistakes?

We are feeding are pet cat. her name is patch

Can you sea the bloo sky and the wite clowds. 

On wenesday we went shoping 

I fink we ready to start.

How meny children are there in are class.

My frend jon is ten yeers old today.

Times Table Rockstars - The Big Launch - 21st September 2020

  Welcome to :

At the Prince of Wales School we recognise the importance of children being fluent and flexible with their known number facts including times tables.  Times Tables Rockstars offers a fun and motivating way of becoming faster at recalling times table facts as multiplication and division calculations.  All children in years 2, 3 and 4 have access to this resource.  Year 2, Mr MacBean and Mrs Bishop will be sharing your login details soon!

If you are not already familiar with this learning platform, here's some information to get you going:

Tables will be set either by the class teacher or by AI, and you can access the set tables by playing on either the Garage or in the Arena.  Other games will include a wider range of times table facts if you fancy a challenge.

Each week years 3 and 4 will be competing in a battle of the bands.  This works on the number of correct answers given by the whole class in the timeframe.  Well done year 4 for winning the first battle, year 3 are hot on your heels this week!  Year 2, once you've had a little practice you can join in too!

And finally, if you want to get even speedier at home it might be worth investing in a number key pad that you can plug into your computer via USB.  We use these in school and the children love to see how fast they can get!

Numeric-Jelly-Comb-Keyboard

For those Mathletes out there, we are still subscribing to Mathletics as well for years 1 to 4, so keep earning those certificates too!  

Year 2 Home Learning FARMING ACROSTIC - Friday 18th September

 

          

Marking the start of our “Farming Fortnight”, we would like the children to write an acrostic for the word “Farming”. 

The children should write 7 sentences relating to “farming”. The sentences should start with the letters in the word farming as indicated in the example below.

F

A combine harvester cuts the crops.

R

M

In the Autumn we have a Harvest Festival at school.

N

G

If you would prefer to write a bit less, perhaps you could do 4 sentences for the word “Farm”.

Year Two - Reading Books Home

 

Following some "Star Reader" quizzing activity last week, the children in Year Two have today selected a reading book to take home. These are the books that are supported by "Accelerated Reader Quizzes" (that are taken online).

All of the children have also chosen a non-fiction text from the library. These are an independent choice according to their own interests.

All books from school can be changed each week. There will be a timetabled opportunity to do this on Wednesday morning, but there will also be other opportunities during the week.

When books are returned to the school library system, they firstly need to come back to a "Returned Books" box in the classroom. This is because of the special cleaning process that we have in place.

We are very grateful to you for your continuing support with reading at home. This is such an important thing to build into your homelife routines and has an enormous impact on your children's development as a reader.

DM

Year Two - Upwey, Portesham, Abbotsbury Trip next Thursday and Friday

 

Year Two - Upwey, Portesham, Abbotsbury Trip

Today the children in Year Two have been given a letter about a trip next week. 

Please be advised to check in bookbags.

Many thanks,

Mr. MacBean 

Year Two - Home Learning Friday 11th Sept

 

Complete the following statement with 5 ideas:

"We could make the World a better place if we........"

1.  2. 3. 4. 5.

Well done Year Two

We would like to congratulate Year Two on our fantastic first week back! (Ok, 3 days)

We have made a lovely start to our Autumn Term, well done everyone. Have a great weekend.

Mr. M.

LEAVES Year Two - Home Learning Friday 4th September

 Year Two - Home Learning                            Friday 4th September

Leaves

For their home learning this week, I would like the children to find leaves from different species of trees.      (How about 6 different trees?)

Can they pick one leaf  from each and draw a careful outline of its shape?

Can they perhaps find the name of the species of tree that it came from?

What do the different leaves you have found have in common? In what ways are they different?  Are all the leaves on the same tree the same colour? Are the leaves the same colour on each side?   

Did you notice any fruit, berries or nuts on the trees that you looked at?

Happy Leafing,

Mr. M