Off to the market

Please remember to wrap your child up for our trip to the Market on Wednesday.  We will be buying ingredients for our cooking later in the week.  A good opportunity for all of the children to practice their money and measures learning from Maths, but we will also be comparing Dorchester Market with a Gambian Market that we have been looking at in Geography and be thinking about where food comes from. 
The children should also bring a bottle of water and a small snack that they can carry as there will be a short time for them to have a play and toilet break at Borough Gardens on our way.

Maths Learning - Week Beginning 2nd February

This week we have been learning about division.  We have shared and grouped objects, as well as used our times tables to work out the answers to division problems.  Some of us have used the division symbol for the first time and are becoming more confident at this.  When your child is learning their two times tables at home you could ask them questions such as: "How many 2s are in 10?"  This will reinforce times table facts and get them to link this to division.

This weeks Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 2nd February 2015

This week in Literacy the children have enjoyed planning and writing their own Magic Key stories.  They have shown really good understanding of how a plan is different from a story and have surprised me at how much detail they have been able to add!  Both handwriting and writing content is really improving in year 2.  Come along and read their stories in their Writing books at Parent's evening on the 10th, 11th and 12th February.

Small holding in India

To launch our Farm to Fork Week, this morning Mr Farrington showed the Year 2 class some photos of his visit to a small farm in Karnataka, South India. The children then drew some pictures of the farm and did some writing to show their understanding to share with Mrs Mewett and Miss Johnson next week! See if the children can tell you something about these photos!

Super learning in RE!

I was very impressed with how much Year 2 could tell me about what they have been learning recently about how Muslims pray when I taught the class this afternoon. They were also very focused and attentive when we found out a little more about how important prayer is to Muslims. Well done!!
Mr Farrington

Great dancing!

I really enjoyed teaching the Year 2 class on Monday for an energetic dance to some lively Indian music. The children were without exception focused, controlled but also put lots of effort and commitment into their dancing! We were all rather red faced, hot and tired at the end of the lesson and in need of more relaxed cool down!
Mr Farrington
(There's a photo of a monkey because I call the dance we did "An Indian Monkey Dance!")

The days of the week!

I was sooooooo impressed with the class on Friday, such super results from our spelling test! Just goes to show those who learnt these well in the autumn term had remembered them and with a little practice, stepped up to the mark! Ask your child if they got seven out of seven? If only 6/7 which did they get wrong?
We re-named this day as 'Wed-nes-day' - did you learn this word this way?!