Is there life in the Polar Regions?

English

Linking in with our topic- Frozen Planets the children have been researching What they would like to find out.  They have used books, the internet and documentaries to identify different facts about the Polar Regions. We are all learning some very interesting facts about life and animals in the Arctic and Antarctica.

            Did you know…

The Arctic Bridge is 6,700 km long and links Russia and Canada.

The coldest temperature ever recorded is -89 degrees.

The Arctic caterpillar freezes over the winter and his heart stops, only to come back to life in the summer months. WOW!!

                       

Phonics

This week we played phonics bingo to ensure that children are familiar with and confident with the phonics we have learnt so far this year. We had fun!

Maths

Continuing to developing measuring using ‘mm’, ‘cm’ and ‘m’ as our unit of measure. We have carried out an investigation into the length and height of many items in our classroom- the children work as a team to identify measurements of snow and winter clothes.

 We have been amazed to find out some of the heights and lengths of Polar animals.

Fact we found out this week…

Did you know a Polar Bear could be 3m tall and the weight of 10 men?

Did you know a Killer Whale is 7m long? That is around the same length as our classroom.

Topic

Continuing with Frozen Planet, we have research life in the Polar Regions and answered many of our questions.

Homework

This week’s homework is set comprehension skills I have included a text all about Polar Bears, please listen to your child read and answer the questions given. They might already know some of the questions from our research.

Have a fun week off and thank you for your support with all tasks and reading!

Frozen...

English

With us celebrating Valentine’s Day this week we have been doing a great deal of work on friendship. The children have all made their own heart cards and wrote their own messages to a friend. These were lovely to read, I am pleased that they are such a kind class!!

We have also been working on our Book- The Little Polar Bear, Where are you going Lars? From this we have identified the key characters and how they played a part n helping Lars back to his family.

 

Phonics

We have been recapping previous sounds this week- the children completed a phonics hunt and from we have identified the sounds that we need to recap over the next few weeks before introducing more sounds.

Maths

Measuring- we have used standard units of measure; meters and centimeters. We have measured the children and noticed that they have all grown a deal amount since September- How did this happen?

They have also been identifying when we use ‘m’ and when we would use ‘cm’ to measure.

Topic

Frozen Planet- the children have completed a KWL grid. Identified all the facts they already know about the Polar Regions and decided on what facts they want to know. Some great thinking and original ideas, I wonder if we will find out if there has been a UFO sighting?...

Homework

Spellings have been set; please practise the correct formation of the letters too, in your best handwriting.

I would also like the children to look at measure, there is a worksheet attached in children’s homework folders working on ordering heights of animals as well as drawing the animals using the measurements given.

Please note that if your child has been absent this week that Miss Karina will email you the homework too.

Have fun and thank you for your support with tasks and reading!

Busy Workers!!!

English

The children have developed into brilliant readers while in year 2 and I am very pleased with the progress every one of them has made. This week we have been doing a lot of work improving our comprehension skills- understanding what we have read. The children have read fiction and non-fiction text and answered questions given, as a class we looked at how to skim read and highlight important parts.

I have also introduced our new class book- Little Polar Bear. We will be using this in a lot of our future lessons to develop different styles of writing. The children enjoyed finding out about Lars and his adventures.

 Phonics

This week we have been concentrating on the 'ear' sound. The children have matched pictures to their correct vocabulary and investigated 'ear' words around the classroom.

We did a ‘ear’ word hunt in the hall and children enjoyed working as a team to locate and identify ‘ear’ words in pictures.

They have been able to use their sound when writing and reading with fluency- Well done!

Maths

Estimating, weighting, counting in 5s, 10s and groups of 20s- Wow! A very busy week!!

We started our week ordering items from lightest to heaviest according to their weights. Moving on, we then started reading scales using standard units of measure- ‘kg’ and ‘g’. The children were able to read different weights given on scales with understanding that 1000g was the same as 1kg- Well Done! Using this knowledge the children then worked in groups to weigh different items around the classroom. We had lots of fun and found some very interesting weights.

 Topic

We finished our puppet making this week- they look great with moving arms, legs, tails and heads. The children have worked extremely hard and have enjoyed experimenting with different materials and ways of adding detail to their puppets. I am looking forward to seeing some theater performances using these in the near future.

Homework

Spellings have been set; please practise the correct formation of the letters too, in your best handwriting.

I would also like the children to look at weight, there is a worksheet attached in children’s homework folders working on ordering weights and answering questions based on children’s understanding of grams and kilograms.

Please note that if your child has been absent this week that Miss Karina will email you the homework too.

Have fun and thank you for your support with tasks and reading!

Artists at Onegino

English

This week we have been concentrating how to use a dictionary. We have explored what alphabetical order is and what definitions are. The children have organized words in alphabetical order and then had a go at writing their own definition for everyday things like an ‘apple’ or ‘snow’.

We have also looked a great deal at fiction and non-fiction books. We have identified the difference between the two and used all the features of a non-fiction book to locate and learn about different topics.

Phonics

This week we have been concentrating on the 'oi' sound. The children have matched pictures to their correct vocabulary and investigated 'oi' words around the classroom. They have been able to use their sound when writing and reading with fluency- Well done!

Maths

The children have started using multiplication in game activities. We have started with x2 x5 and x10. Great understanding so far, this will be reinforced throughout the year and we will be going into deeper depth soon.

In year 2, during our Maths sessions this week we have also been looking at how we write our numbers using sounds and the inverse of number sentences. We noticed that numbers can be added and subtracted in different ways.

          We know that ‘73 + 12 = 85’ is the same as ‘12 + 73 = 85’, we have also recognized that we can flip the number sentence around and use a ‘-‘… 85 – 73 therefore must be 12.

Topic

It has been an Art celebration this week. The children have taken part in a number of activities around the school. On Monday we moved classes and groups. Mr. Daniel in year 4 taught the children how to use symmetry to draw portraits of the teachers. Mr. Chris taught the children to make friendship bracelets and I helped the children to create masks. The results were brilliant and I loved the creative thinking behind some of the masks.

During the week we have also been making puppets. On Monday we read the book ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book?’ we identified all the characters and chose our favourite. From this the children then identified what clothing and extra features the characters had and planned how to make their own puppet to resemble them. I am very excited for the end results.

Homework

This week’s homework is to work on comprehension skills. Each child has been given a story or poem to read and questions to answer about the text. The story or poem given included phase 3 phonics which have been worked on in class and therefore the children should be familiar with most of the vocabulary. There are also spelling and books to keep them busy.

Please note that if your child has been absent this week that Miss Karina will email you the homework too.

Have fun and thank you for your support with tasks and reading!