Maths Learning - Week Beginning 16th March 2015

We have been adding and subtracting this week using number lines, objects, numicon as well as vertical methods.  The children have been building on their understanding of these operations and have begun to apply their preferred method when solving worded problems.

Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 16th March

This week we have started our Sea Turtle topic!  We began by asking the Sea Turtle questions about its life in the form of a poem.  The children have used their sentence punctuation including question marks in the poem very well.  We will be finding out more about Turtles over the coming week and writing information leaflets about them using ICT.

days in each month...

Thirty days have September,

April, June, and November;

February has 28 alone,

All the rest have 31;

Except leap year, that's the time,

When February's days are 29.^[1]

On the back of the spellings sheets this week is the above poem. A life poem to learn, as once known it will always help your child recall the days in each month, a necessity for maths problems!!
See if you can all learn it together?!

The class challenge is to learn it off by heart over the next few weeks. There are other versions, can they find and recite these too?!

 

Friday- Comic Relief

This Friday is Comic Relief. Just a quick reminder that we are asking the children to dress funny for money!

 

In assembly on Friday we will be sharing favourite jokes.  Also after school on Friday we will be having a cake sale. Each class will be baking and decorating cakes. However if you are baking this week or would like to donate some cakes for our sale please hand them to the children's class teacher on Friday.

 

All of the school have been learning the 2015 Comic Relief Song 'Put on a funny face'. It is a brilliant song and very catchy.  

Amazing assembly effort from all

Well the children certainly did themselves proud today! Without a huge amount of rehearsing and some with relatively new words handed out, the class confidently led the assembly today, with a big performance poem leading us through the story of the Fire of London. Excellent musicianship skills performed too, and we have to mention Bruno's superb piano playing!
The class were set a target from their last assembly which was very quietly delivered. Do you think they looked more relaxed and confident in their delivery?! I did!

 

maybe, goosebump, icecream, butterfly!?!

The compound word challenge was really well done by a lot of the class and their families. The class discussed these words and it soon became clear that a compound word is a new word meaning made up of two separate words that can mean something totally different!

E.g. goose + bump (bird and a lump!) = goosebump  - little bumps under our skin when cold or scared.

Really interesting investigation - well done Year 2!

The winning family were Jensen's!

Class Assembly

Please come along and see how year 2 have been traveling through time this term.  9:20am in the school hall, Friday 6th March.