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!