Hello everyone and welcome to 2022. This is going to be a very busy term for us but we’d still like to tell you a little bit about what we’ve been doing and what we hope to do in this term:
Numeracy
We have started chimney sums in maths which we use to make hard sums like 63+15 easier. They are a bit tricky to write but we are practising hard. The pupils like how they turn what seem like very tricky maths into easy maths (maths is all about tricks like this!).
We have now moved on from skip counting and have started our times tables properly. We are doing the 2, 5 and 10 – soon we will be starting the 3 times table and we will be learning the 3 times table song which you can find here (it’s very catchy!):
Three Times Table Song (Cover of Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars) – YouTube
Finally we are also starting to work to 100 which means counting backwards and forwards in 2s 5s and 10s! Counting backwards is particularly tricky but we’ll keep practising!
Finally, we’ll be continuing to practise the months of the year, timetables and telling the time to the quarter hour – What a lot of work! 😎
Literacy
We do dictation on a Friday which helps us with our spelling.
We also still love the Mr Men books and we use them to help us with our writing and spotting phoneme words:
We do news every week where we tell what we have been doing at home. Now we are trying to put lots of detail to make our writing more interesting:
We have been learning how to write reports. We are learning that we just put in the basic facts and how this is different to a story or a description.
We’ve also been learning some tricks for spelling words – like because which uses a special rhyme “big elephants can always understand small elephants”.
Other Areas
We have been growing plants with Mrs Barnes. We planted bulbs outside our classroom. They are going to grow in the springtime – we will look out for them and take pictures when they start to grow.
In art we painted some new pictures. We were painting trees, houses and snowmen in the snow at night. This was tricky because we had to mix paint gradually to make the night sky look like it was in moonlight.
In gym we are starting gymnastics – it we are really good. We are hoping to get out the apparatus which includes the wall bars!! Last week we pretended to be different animals which was tricky – especially the crocodile.
In computing we have started using Scratch which is a coding program. We made a cat go across the screen and make meow noises. By the end of the term we will be making all sorts of cool things.
Last Friday it SNOWED! So we got our coats on and went out into the playground – we made a really cool snowman – if it snows again we’ll make an even bigger one.
Finally, keep an eye out for the P2-3 assembly. We’ll be recording it and showing it virtually – once it’s ready we’ll post it on Google Classroom.
Mr C, Mrs S and P2-3.
