Home Learning – Half Term

Next half term we will be starting our new and exciting topic ‘Exploring Science’! Through this topic we will be learning all about plants, flying machines, everyday materials, famous inventors and fair testing.

Over half term, you have the opportunity to invent and design something that will help an object to fall more slowly e.g. parachute.

After half term you will have the opportunity to pitch your invention, Dragon’s Den style!

Good luck!

Home Learning

Literacy

Write your own magic key story where a glowing key can take you on an adventure. Make sure you use lots of description, connectives and exciting sentence starters!

Maths

Practice these skills:

–      Telling the time to the nearest hour, half hour and quarter of an hour.

–      Can you find any 3D shapes around your house and name them? You also should be able to describe their properties (e.g. 12 edges and 8 vertices [points])

–      Use a ruler to measure things in your kitchen. Can you read a set of weighing scales in grams and kilograms?

RE

Write a character description about doubting Thomas. Describe what you think he looked like. What was he like? Write about how you know, using his behaviour.

Phonics

Please carry on practising the next 200 high frequency words and practice any words you find tricky to spell. Remember, you should be able to spell correctly all the words you can read by sight.

Literacy

What other nocturnal animals can you find out about? This will help you write facts in literacy and topic work.

Maths

Start with a 2 digit number e.g. 23. What happens if you add 10? What about if you take away 10? Could you add 20 to the number? What happens if you add another multiple of 10? Can you experiment with other 2 digit numbers?

RE

How did other people remember the Easter story? Can you find more than one recount of the Easter story in the Bible? What is similar? What is different? Could you record the similarities and differences in your home learning book? Can you be creative in how you do this?

Phonics

Please look at the next 200 high frequency words and practice any words you find tricky to spell. How could you remember how to spell them? Could you make up a song? Could you write the word down several times? What else could you do?

Year Two were so excited about the owl visit on Tuesday.

We were so impressed with the owl trainer, Jason, who knew so much about the owls.

We would definitely recommend a visit to Ringwood, where the owls live. They came from the Liberty’s Owl, Raptor and Reptile Centre.

Year Two did some incredible writing about owls following on from meeting the owls. I’m sure they have told you all about it!

Below are some photos of our special experience:

We had a lovely day at Staunton Country Park. We were so lucky to have such beautiful weather. Thank you to all the parent helpers who gave up their day to help, we couldn’t have done it without you!

I’m sure the children will tell you all about their day as they seemed to really enjoy it. They were very well behaved and mature; we were really proud of them.

Below are some photos from the day.

We hope you all had a lovely Easter break. The children were very excited this morning and wrote wonderful recounts about their Easter adventures.

We can tell alot of you have been working hard to practise our key skills and would like to say a big thank you for your continued support. It really does make a huge difference.

Staunton Reminder

This Wednesday is our school trip to Staunton Country Park.

The weather forecast is set to be sunny and hot so please ensure children have the following:

* Sun cream (applied in the morning before school)

* Sun hat (if they are particularly sensitive to the sun)

* NO sunglasses please (they are very likely to get lost or broken)

* Trainers may be worn with school uniform

* If you have not requested a school lunch to be provided, please bring your lunch in a disposable bag

* All children need to bring a bottle of water (prefereably also disposable)

* NO fizzy or sugary drinks

* NO money is needed on the day as we will not be feeding the animals or visiting the shop

Thank you to everyone that was able to attend our tuned percussion concert. We thoroughly enjoyed showing off our new skills and teaching family and friends some songs.

We know not all parents could make it due to work commitments so below are some photos for you to see what we got up to.

Next term the focus of our music lessons will be singing. We are looking forward to a large year group performance at the end of the summer term.

Happy Easter!

Easter Holidays

Please work on your targets from Parent’s Evening.

This may include:

• Times tables (2x, 5x, 10x, 3x, 4x)
• Number bonds, number doubles, number halves
• The four operations (+ – x ÷) on a numberline
• Telling the time
• 3D shape names and properties

• Noun phrases (dangerous, scary predator)
• Spelling the first 200 high frequency words

http://www.highfrequencywords.org/first-100-high-frequency-word-lists.html

http://www.highfrequencywords.org/next-200-high-frequency-word-list-precursive.html

• Using different connectives (but, so, because, if, while, when, however, although)
• Practise handwriting and joining letters

• Make sure you read something every day.

Thank you for everyone who came to our class assembly today.