Maths Problems
Explaining subtraction by decomposition using Base 10 resources.
Earth, sun and moon
This week, we’ve created videos demonstrating how the earth orbits our sun and how the moon orbits the sun.
Space Dome
Last week, we learnt about the planets and stars in a Space dome. We found out that the stars in our sky change across the year. We also learnt about how the earth and moon move in relation to our sun.
Harlow Carr
As part of our Green Fingers topic, Year 1 and 2 have visited Harlow Carr gardens today. It’s been great to see the children’s enthusiasm for this topic and especially how their knowledge has grown when naming different plants and trees. We found plenty of shady spots to try and keep cool and the ice creams helped too. Well done both classes for demonstrating excellent behaviour. You were great ambassadors for the school.
Harlow Carr
Year 1 and 2 had a great time at Harlow Carr today. We soaked up the sun, searched through the trees and savoured some delicious ice-cream. A full recount will follow, but the children are going to write one themselves tomorrow so I’ll save it to be in their words. Here’s the story of the day in pictures…
Creative homework
Last week’s homework was to show what plants you could see around and we had some really creative responses. Well done, Year 2.
Tennis training
Have you been watching Wimbledon? New tennis lessons are starting at Roundhay Park next week.
What’s happening this week?
The big event this week is our school trip to Harlow Carr. We’ll be going on Wednesday for the whole day so don’t forget that all of the children will need packed lunches. It’s going to be hot – hot – hot! We have school hats to protect our heads from the sun but it would be a good idea to send your child with sun-cream and a water bottle (in addition to a drink in their lunch) and make sure they’re in a skirt or shorts. As we make our way around the gardens, we’ll be spotting the well-known plants that we’ve been learning about as well as seeing what new plants we can find.
Maths – We’re revisiting fractions and time this week. Help at home by asking what time it is and making sure your child is using an analogue clock. o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to are important but we also need to be able to read 5, 10, 20 and 25 past and to the hour.
English – We’re finishing Year 2 with a long narrative project inspired by a picture book with no text. Reading short stories (picture books) will help the children pick up on story-telling language and find adjectives and sentences openers they can use in their own writing.
Maths morning!
Ruler rules
Now we can compare lengths and order them, it’s time to get better using a ruler. After comparing different lengths and putting them in height order, we learnt how to use a ruler properly so that we could check whether our ordering was accurate.
