Homework 7.11.16
Reading book (Suns Chapters 6&7)
Spelling – write a sentence for each word. Green Grp: learn children because earth Red Grp: father head mother jump
Phonics – Write down as many words using our new sound as you can
Green Grp: ea bread Red Grp: e-e these
Maths – Record these patterns in your green jotter 0-20 in 2s 0-30 in 3s 0-40 in 4s
0-50 in 5s 0-100 in 10s Write down 5 odd and 5 even 3 digit numbers eg 253 odd 972 even
This term we have been working on our hockey and golf skills. We started off by working on controlling the stick and club before progressing to moving the ball around the hall avoiding obstacles. We then learned how to pass short distances to our partner before practising our shooting and putting skills. Stations were used when teaching hockey and golf skills which enabled the children to learn more in a short period of time.
We have also been learning all about Space this term and this topic has really captured the children’s imagination. The curricular areas taught through this topic include Literacy, Technology, Science, Health and Wellbeing and Art and Design. The children have produced a lot of creative writing throughout this topic including writing about why they would like to visit space and completing an Astronaut Application. The stimuli used in other lessons including video clips and news reports and has inspired their imaginations and they have produced some wonderful pieces of writing. At home the children created amazing rockets and were able to talk about their designs to the rest of the class. They had the opportunity to investigate the diet of astronauts and how it differs from our own. They loved having the opportunity to taste some of the snacks astronauts would eat like dried fruit and nuts. They have also been able to explore the moon and planets using different media to create both the surface of the moon and their own solar systems. Crumpets were used to show the craters and seas on the moon and polystyrene balls were decorated to resemble each planet. Paper mache space helmets were also created and great fun was had trying to get them to fit! A wonderful topic with lots of learning both in class and at home.
Our Interdisciplinary topic this term focused on The Farm. The areas of the curriculum covered within this topic included Literacy, Numeracy, Technology, Health and Wellbeing and Expressive Arts. The children had to sequence farm stories and create their own storyboards and use coins in the farm shop to pay for items. The children also had the experience of using a key to create a scale drawing of a farm and they used their knowledge of the Eat Well Plate to make draw and write about their own healthy lunchbox. In art the children used different materials to make paper plate farm animals and create a painting of the different seasons on the farm. Role play opportunities included the farm shop, re-telling traditional farm stories in the puppet theatre and acting out the story of the Little Red Hen.
Symmetry, Money, Shape and Data Handling have been our main focus in P2 this term. We can sort real images into Symmetrical and Asymmetrical columns, we can create our own symmetrical pictures and we can find the line of symmetry in different shapes. We used Numicon to help us make different amounts of money using 2p, 5p and 10p coins. We also familiarised ourselves with the coins we use every day. It was tricky for some of us to make amounts like 3p because we don’t have a 3p coin but the Numicon shapes helped as did our help sheets. We had lots of real life examples of 3D objects to help us recognise and name the shapes and made our own 3D objects out of nets. We had fun finding right angles in the classroom too, who knew there was so many?! We have also been creating our own bar graphs and pictographs and we are now able to answer questions about graphs and are able to use appropriate vocabulary including least, most, fewer than and more than.
We have been learning to write instructions this term as well as focusing on making our own stories interesting and exciting for others to read. For our instructions the children made their own lemonade, shortbread and grew their own cress in class to give them a greater understanding of the steps involved. This real life context made the writing more meaningful for them and this resulted in them being able to produce easy to follow and precise instructions. The children were also able to write super stories about the farm having had the experience of a trip to a local farm where they could see first hand the daily routine of a farmer and gained a greater insight into how the animals are taken care of. Some of the children have also become published writers after their fabulous winter senses poems were chosen to be included in a soon to be released book.
In term 3 we have worked very hard on our fluency and comprehension skills. We are using ‘Find It, Prove It, Talk About It’ to show our understanding of the texts we are reading in class. We are also working on changing our voices when questions are being asked or when different characters talk. This makes it more interesting for our audience and helps us focus on how the characters are feeling at certain points of the story. We are learning to structure our own stories too with a clear beginning, middle and end and sequencing the stories we read in class is helping us with this.
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