RE

Try to give up something this weekend that you really love doing like watching TV or playing on your games consoles. Think about how Jesus would have felt in the Wilderness and how this helped him get closer to God.

Phonics

Miss Smillie’s Phonics Group – Find words ending in ‘ing’ and explore the three rules to add the suffix ‘ing’ to a word.

1) Taking off the ‘e’ e.g. love-loving, take-taking.

2) Doubling the consonant e.g. hop-hopping, sit-sitting.

3) Adding an ‘ing’ e.g. play-playing, say-saying.

Miss Hele’s/ Mrs Wickes’ Phonics Group- Find words with the /ow/ sound spelt ‘ow’, ‘ou’ and ‘ough’. Remember words are always spelt with ‘ow’ when followed by an ‘n’.

Miss Stinton’s Phonics Group- Practice spelling the tricky words: many, any, different, eyes, friends and laughed. Can you spot them in your reading books?

Maths

Choose two numbers like 9 and 15. Practice finding the difference  between them using different skills like drawing a numberline and counting on from 9 to 15, the difference would be 6.

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Thank you and well done to all the children who have sent in some very impressive home learning models, stories, timelines and posters. You have shown excellent commitment to learning at home!

RE

Think about what you could do at home to earn pennies and change to donate to a charity this Lent time.

Phonics

Please practice these topic words to use in our literacy writing:

modern, past, Tudor, Victorian, nowadays, century, present

Perhaps you could find some more words to practice which you have found difficult spelling during this project.

Maths

Practice number bonds to 10 (e.g. 5+5=10), 20 (e.g. 15+5=20) and 100 (e.g. 15+85=100). Encourage children to use their number bonds to 10 to solve number sentences like 24+16= (if I know 4+6=10 then I should be able to solve ‘24+16=’ by adding the tens and using my number bonds to add the units.

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We hope you all had a lovely half term.

Thank you for your donations of ‘junk’ for our DT project next week.

We now have more than enough so please don’t send any more in!

If you have been saving up your ‘junk’ at home perhaps you could allow the children a trial run of designing and making a mode of transport for a king or queen.

We hope you have recieved your liturgy invitations and look forward to seeing you at 10.15am on Tuesday 10th March.

Please use the week over half term to carry on with your home learning pyramid projects and work on your online learning.

We look forward to a big show and tell of models and posters after half term.

Phonics

Please make sure you read every day over half term. This does not have to just be your school reading books but also library books, home reading books and information from the internet when you are working on your projects.

Maths

Please make sure you practice your 2x, 5x and 10x tables. If you know these off by heart then begin the 3x, 4x and 6x tables. Practice the four operations of +, -, x and ÷ by making your own number sentences, rolling dice of turning over digit cards.

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We are very happy to announce that Year Two were victorious in the pizza challenge!

We also won cleanest workstation overall…

Below are some photos for you to enjoy!

An excellent end to a fun and creative maths week.

Literacy: I could start thinking about planning my version of Rumplestiltskin for story writing next week.

Numeracy: I could play ‘guess my number’ using the dance equation number shapes I can make with my body. Remember 1 jump for a ‘tens’ number and 2 jumps for a ‘hundred’ number.

RE: I could start finding out about Sikhism and bring anything I find out to RE on Tuesday next week.

Phonics

Miss Smillie’s Phonics Group – ‘W’ words which all sound different e.g. who, where, when, was, why, what, witch, which

Miss Hele’s Phonics Group- Find words with the different spelling of the /oo/ sound e.g. ‘ew’, ‘ue’, ‘u’, ‘u_e’, ‘oo’.

Mrs Wickes’ Phonics Group- Find words with the different spelling of the /oo/ sound e.g. ‘ew’, ‘ue’, ‘u’, ‘u_e’, ‘oo’.

Miss Stinton’s Phonics Group- Find words where the letter ‘u’ is pronounced differently like ‘umbrella’, ‘unit’ or ‘put’.

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We were so excited this morning when we got to school and it was still snowing!

We spent half an hour with the rest of the school playing in the snow on the field.

We had so much fun!!

We really enjoyed collaborating this morning as we taught our classmates how to play our favourite games and puzzles.

It’s great to remember how much maths learning can be experienced through simple games and puzzles.

Hopefully we’ve got Year Two really excited about going home and carrying on playing board games and card games.

We have been very busy this week learning all about division, speech punctuation and parables!

Literacy: I could practice using speech punctuation in my own story. Don’t forget to check the blog to see the rhyme!

Numeracy: I could practice solving division problems like 21÷7=   (How many groups of 7 are there in 21?)

RE: I could think about the message of forgiveness and find some parables which teach me about this.

Phonics

Miss Smillie’s Phonics Group – Collect different suffixes (word endings) when looking at present and past tense verbs e.g. cry – cried, humming – hummed, running – ran

Miss Hele and Mrs Wickes’ Phonics Group– Investigate words with different spellings of the /ar/ sound e.g. calm, heart, are, bizarre, car, dancing. Practice spelling the tricky words: saw, through, some, was.

Miss Stinton’s Phonics Group– Find words where the letter ‘c’ is pronounced differently like ‘cylinder’ or ‘crow’. Practice spelling the tricky words ‘one’ and ‘out’.

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This week we have been learning all about using speech in narrative.

We have learnt a rhyme to help us to remember how to punctuate our speech correctly.

Inverted comma “

Capital letter  A

Actual spoken words  abc

Punctuation  ,   ?   !

End the speech marks “

Finish with a speech verb.

Ideas for creative speech verbs:

called

whispered

grumbled

mumbled

screamed

shuddered

croaked

shouted

murmured

NOT ‘said’!