A big “thank you”
to all parents in 2B who attended our work shop. We had great fun exploring Mathletics, Purple Mash and the Bearwood Blog. Again, many thanks Miss Beasley.
A quick reminder that 2B inspire will be on Tuesday 31st January at 9:00. Please make sure that someone can be there to support your child. Thank you, Miss Beasley.
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A big whoosh to all the children who are reading their books and sound sheets. Please support your children at home by reading with them and talking about the book with them. Literacy This week we have started work on poetry, we have looked at a range of different poems (Some of our reviews are on the blog!) and we have had a try at performing piece of poetry. Next week we are staying with poetry and will finish the week writing our competition entry! Literacy Homework (For literacy children only) Note down some ideas for your competition entry- What is your poem going to be about? What WOW! Words can you use in your poem? Are you going to have a shape poem? Rhyming poem?
Numeracy This week we have been using all of our numeracy knowledge to work out missing symbols from questions. Next week we will be warming our brains up with the 4 times tables then we are going to continue to be numeracy detectives working out the missing numbers from questions and creating our own rules to work out the answer! Numeracy Homework Can you create a games for your 4 times table to play at home to help you learn your times tables? Why not share times table toons with your family at home and show them how good you are at singing them?
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This week we have created our own restaurant. Next week we are going to be creating a menu to use in our restaurant it will include a range of different food from your country including WOW! Words to describe them! Can you think of as many WOW! Words as you can to help describe some of the food that you have on your menu?
Children assembled and joined materials to make a Italian/Indian/Chinese/Jamaican restaurant in groups using the art and DT resources. They also organised jobs within their teams and used different learning powers.
Children in Y2 used their 5 senses to describe a range of food from different countries.
Hot Questions:
Children tasted:
Year 2 have started their work on poetry and have been looking at a range of poems to get them started. Here are some of their opinions.
In Y2 the children were plant detectives investigating:
What do plants need to grow?
What type of plants can we eat?
Children used different resources to investigate like:
There was a lot of group discussion and we used our learning powers.
2S had a jam-packed Inspire Workshop. A huge THANK YOU to all parents that came. We had great fun exploring Mathletics, Purple Mash and the Bearwood Blog to support our learning at home and school. Please remember to use your “pack” to help with the homework set on a weekly basis. Again, many thanks Miss Steventon.
| Phonics
The groups are working very hard and the children are progressing well. Please ensure that you are reading with your children at home and working on their phonics sheet with them. Literacy This week we have created explanations for our inventions- watch out we might be the next Wallace and Grommit! Next week we will be moving onto a new unit- we will be looking at poetry. We have some very exciting news which will be revealed on Monday. Literacy Homework (For literacy children only) What is poetry? What poems do you know? Do you have a favourite poet? Write down your favourite poem so we can share on Monday, if you don’t know any poems have a go at writing your own about something at home.
Numeracy Next week we will be warming out brains up finding out the missing symbols. We will be looking at all four symbols and trying to work out which one it could be. We will then be moving onto 2D and 3D shapes- How many shapes can you name? What are their properties? Numeracy Homework Write and draw 8 different shapes that you see around your house or around the park. Topic |
We are well under way with our new topic ‘Come Dine With Me’. Next week we will be looking at food that restaurants serve and we will be making our own restaurant! You will need all of your creativity power next week!
Please remember that 2S inspire is on Wednesday 18th at 9.00. Please ensure that someone can attend with your child. Thank you