Fairy tales and greedy gobblers

This week in numeracy the children have been learning about right angles and time. On Monday we all made a ‘Greedy Gobbler’. Greedy Gobblers love eating right angles so the children used their Greedy Gobbler to investigate angles on both 2D and 3D shapes.

Our focus in maths for the next few days will be to learn about half past, quarter past and quarter to. We are learning this on analogue clocks first and then will move on to digital. Try to encourage your child to practise their time telling skills at home.

In literacy we have been learning about narrative through fairy stories and traditional tales. We have learnt about speech marks and practised using them in our writing. We will move on to comparing different versions of the same story before writing our own innovated versions of The Three Little Pigs.

The home challenge for PE this week is to practise hopping on your weaker leg. You might want to try playing hopscotch this way.

The children are continuing to enjoy forest school. Thank you for ensuring they are well wrapped up in this cold weather. Below is a link to the Woodland trust website and some information on the Radio 2 500 words competition. This links well with our learning in Forest School so might be something your child may like to take part in.

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It's been another busy week in Year 2. 

Lots of children have been bringing in their 'treasures' from home and have been talking with great enthusiasm about them. We have learnt so much from them so thank you and keep them coming!

In Literacy this week the children have continued to write their pirate adventure stories. We have had a go at including speech in our work and have also started to edit and improve our learning so it is ready for a final draft that will be shared with Year 3.

In numeracy we have been busy sharing and have learnt that sharing is called division. The children have explored different division sentences and have started to come up with some rules for numbers that can and cannot be shared out equally.

We have continued to enjoy exploring floor patterns in PE. This week's home challenge is to find out how to play hopscotch and learn how to play with somebody. You could draw your own hopscotch court using chalk (ask a grown up first!) You could also practise this on the school playground at playtime.

Sadly next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be Miss Francis's last days with us. She will be missed by both the children and the Year 2 Team.

X doesn't always mark the spot...

This week, inspired by a visit from Year 3, the children have been busy becoming adventure story authors. The Year 3 children visited us in our classroom and read adventure stories they had written to us. Year 2 were able to ask them questions about how they planned and wrote their stories. The children then planned their own pirate adventure stories and have begun to write them. When we finish them next week we will go and visit Year 3 to read our stories to them.

In numeracy we have been investigating multiplication. The children have learnt that the 'x' symbol means 'lots of' so 5x3 means there are 5 'lots of' 3. We have learnt how to solve multiplication problems using a range of apparatus and strategies such as repeated addition and have discovered some interesting patterns in number.

The children have continued to enjoy activities from our new P.E. scheme of work. This week we focused on skipping, sidesteps and pivots. This week's home challenge is to try performing footwork patterns in time with a friend or family member. See if you can go forwards and backwards.

Next week we will be starting to learn about special books in R.E. If your child has a book that is special to them we would love to see it and find out why it is special to them. Please ensure any books are clearly labelled with your child's name and class.

As it's likely to be very cold in Forest School over the next few weeks, please ensure that your child comes with plenty of layers of warm clothing, including warm socks, hats, gloves and scarves. 

Happy New Year - welcome back!

Welcome back. We hope you all had an amazing Christmas and New Year. Thank you again for all the lovely Christmas cards, presents and wishes.

This term our topic is linked to our Newbridge 50 theme of 'My Treasure'. To spark the children's enthusiasm on Tuesday we had a treasure hunt.

First we discovered hidden treasure in the wet and windy pirate ship in the playground.

 We took the treasure chest back to the classroom to look inside.

 To our amazement there was a letter from Captain Blackbeard of Bristol as well as some pirate treasures. The letter asked us to hunt for other treasure boxes and contained some clues as well as a treasure map.

We discovered lots of treasure in Blackbeard's chest.

Blackbeard gave us some helpful clues.

We learnt that treasure comes in all shapes and forms!

On Monday the teachers were busy having a PE INSET day. As you will see on our curriculum overview on the school website we have begun to implement a new PE Scheme of Work. To compliment the new SOW we will put a quick and easy Home Challenge on the blog. Here is this week's challenge.......

Can you teach someone in your family the Rock, Paper, Scissors game we learnt in PE this week? 

You should have all received a ParentMail detailing the dates for forest school. Next week, Thursday 15th January is 2R's first session of the year.