In year 2 children are required to tell
the time to the nearest ¼ hour. A good
place to start is by reading o’clock and ½ past hours. Try these games over the holidays as we will
be covering time when we come back after Easter.
The Hickory Dickory Dock game at:
http://www.ictgames.com/hickory4.html
Or try playing STOP THE CLOCK: Set the time on the clock to 6 o'clock to start the game.
Decide who will go first (player 1) and who will go second (player 2).
Take it in turns to choose to move the hands of the clock on by ½
hour or by 1 hour. For example, player 1 could choose ½ hour, so the clock
hands move to 6.30, then player 2 might choose 1 hour, moving the clock hands to 7.30 ... etc.
The winner is the player who moves the hands exactly onto 12 o'clock.
Can you work out a winning strategy so that you can always beat your opponent?
Play on the sheet given drawing in the
hands for each time or go to the website to use an interactive clock.
If your child is finding this difficult
concentrate on o’clock and see if they can spot when the big hand gets to the
top of the clock. Look at the small hand
to spot the hour.
Wow, what an amazing effort everyone has put in with their model houses for our "Pudding Lane".
This week we will be taking our learning outside! We have a visitor from the RSPB who will be working with the class during the day on Tuesday 25th April and / or Friday 28th April. So that we can all go out and enjoy our learning please could you provide your child with outdoor shoes (wellies or boots) and a warm coat to wear on these days?
Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful and sunny Easter break and are coming back raring to go! We will be beginning the term by getting stuck into our animals and plants science topic. We will also be looking more specifically at Sea Turtles in the next few weeks.
This week we have been writing reports about The Great Fire of London. We have been applying all of our sentence writing skills to write about what happened in 1666. The children have really impressed me with their historical knowledge too. At home you could look at reports in newspapers and magazines. What do you think of how they are written?
This week we have been drawing and moving 2D shape and have begun to look at 3D shape. Using a ruler is a skill that needs lots of practice, and is essential for drawing shapes and lines as the children progress through the school. A challenge for you over Easter is to practice using a ruler. Perhaps measure something or make a picture just using straight lines. Can you improve your ruler skills?
This week's spellings are a range of words we have looked at over the last term. Have a go at learning at least 6 of them. Maybe your could try all of them.