Class 2

Please make sure outdoor clothing is in school every week. Children in Class 2 will have Forest School every Monday in small groups with Miss Wood. 

Children will need:

Wellies/outdoor shoes

Waterproof suit or a waterproof coat/jacket and old trousers

Hat and gloves

This week Year 2 have been learning about the different 'l' sounds at the ends of words. 

This sound can be made using 'l', 'll', 'le', 'el', 'il' or 'al'

Words to practise:

pencil, hospital, table, squirrel

Year 1 have been learning more ways to read and spell the Angry Red A…

Year 1 have been learning about ordinal numbers this week. We have been ordering shapes to solve riddles, organising cars into labelled parking spaces and competing to see who will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd. 

Words to practise at home:

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th…

Today we have been making Aboriginal art using the end of a paintbroush. We have learned about dotting techniques and talked about the animals that would be in the painting.

Today we made African animal art by painting animal prints onto the background of our paper and then adding the silhouette of the animal on top.

This week Year 1 have been learning the Angry Red A sound spelt using 'ai'

Words to practise reading and writing:

train, brain, drain, pain, paint, rain, aim, sail, rainbow, snail

Year 1 have also been learning the 'oi' sound which is a golden Tricky witch spelling.

Words to practise…

This week Class 2 have been baking biscuits with Mrs Gulley, for Little Red Riding Hood to take Grandma. Tomorrow we will write instructions to make the biscuits we have baked.

This week Year 1 have been learning about the 've' and 'ai' sounds in phonics. 

Words to practise reading and writing at home are: 

give, have, love, live

Year 2 have been learning about silent letter sounds this week. They have focussed on 'kn'.

Words to practise reading and…

Today Year 2 have been representing numbers to 100 by counting in tens and ones using a tens frame.

This week Year 1 have been recapping the graphemes they learnt in Reception. We have looked at:

nk (think, bank)

ll (pull, full)

ff (stiff, fluff)

zz (buzz, jazz)

ck (chick, trick)

Year 2 have been learning new graphemes. They are: 

dge (sledge, bridge, fridge)

g…

In English we have been learning about the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Today we walked through the woods thinking about adjectives to describe what we could hear, see, smell, taste and feel.

This week we have been learning about shapes. We learnt the names of shapes and sorted them according to their properties.