As you know, in Class 2 – we always rate our week of learning on a Friday during evaluations time. I am going to start off by revealing Khadija’s and Ross’ as they both had a super week and I was chuffed with their responses! 👍🏽😍😁
It was an 8 from Bilal!
Another solid 10 from Subhan!
Ivo was deliberating between an 8, 9 or 10 – hence why the photo turned out a little blurry haha!
A summary of what we have been learning this week from Class 2:
- We have been counting the positives about ourselves this week. The Clips videos that we created are on Microsoft Teams for you to enjoy watching!
- We made birthday videos for Mr Stewart’s 30th, which he celebrated on Friday (as well as it being Miss Bull’s birthday too!). As you can imagine – it was a day filled with excitement!
- In Literacy – we have been learning about the “ee” sound during our Phonics work, and creating silly sentences with these words. We have also been learning about co-ordinating connectives during ‘Hammer the Grammer’ time; ‘and, so, but, or’. We have been writing recounts of our weekends – trying our best to include a co-ordinating connective of our choice. We have been continuing our Reading Comprehension work, and some of us have moved onto new books and stories! We have been practicing Handwriting the letter D in uppercase and lowercase lettering.
- We have been continuing to work with money in Maths; converting p to £ and vice versa using inverse operations. We have been practicing making amounts with the fewest coins and investigating price cuts.
In Mental Maths, we have been focusing on estimating and rounding. Ross was excellent at describing what estimating meant and gave us an example of when his Dad might say; “I estimate I will arrive in 24 hours”. ⌚️🤔
An estimate is making an informed, rough guess.
- We practiced estimating for simple addition sums, by rounding to the nearest 10.
- Khadija and Kareem did a great job of making different amounts using 1p coins, and others where possible. We familiarised ourselves with the different coins, and both managed to successfully order them from 1p to £2. Nice job!
- Ross and Subhan had spotted some apples ready for cooking with in the school Eco garden. We made apple and cinnamon muffins – they were very tasty! Here is the link if you want to try them again at home.🍏🍎🍏🍎
https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/basic-cinnamon-apple-muffins/5bc800c9-a884-485a-b07d-5ecaca9c04ac
Tip: Keep an eye on the oven after 10 minutes or so, as they bake quicker than anticipated!
- As part of our IDL work, we are reconnecting with wild places and discovering Nature on our doorstep. We decided to measure the height of trees, and calculate their age – working with the abundance of beautiful trees that tower over our playgrounds.🌳🌲🌴
You can re-watch the instruction video and give it a go in your local green spaces/garden using the link below;
- On Friday, we celebrated Subhan’s belated birthday! He turned 11 at the end of August – and we had another groovy “shin-dig” to celebrate the birthday boy!🎊🎉🎁🥳
- Our school focus this week was Mental Health. Miss Cohen shared this important info-graphic on Teams at the beginning of the week and was so delighted to receive photographs and videos of strategies Kit and Hector both use to feel calm and relaxed. Thank you for your input!🤩
We did some Art therapy on Thursday afternoon where Miss Cohen asked the class to paint exactly how they were feeling at that moment in time. No instructions were given about which colours to select, what the painting should look like or include – and the responses generated from the class were so varied and unique!🎨
- On Friday, we then decided to translate our paintings into silent mimes. They were SO fantastic!👌🏽
Here is Khadija’s about how happy and safe she feels when with her Aunty Miriam.
This is Bilal’s expressing how light and free he feels when completely relaxed.
Ivo feels happy when he is at a restaurant and laughing with his friends and family!
Here is Subhan’s. He is feeling inspired by a pop star, Justin Beiber.
Here is Kit’s piece, where he is expressing the journey of feeling anger to finding his calming, happy place.
Kayden did an excellent job here of expressing things that make him feel happiest; great white sharks and the Hulk.
Happy Sunday everyone – hope you are having a lovely weekend! 💜
Miss Cohen
