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19 November 2010

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges have plurals with an ‘s’.

Apples have some high-frequency words to remember. They will be tested on 25 Friday 2010.

November 18 2010

Your homework this week is creative and is due on Wednesday 24 November.

I can express my opinions about our Victorian Day.

We had lots of fun and interactive learning on Victorian Day. This creative homework is to explain all about the events and activities that the children experienced during the day.

This piece of work could be:

• drawings
• writing
• a picture collage
• an illustrated list

or

• your own idea!

Have fun!

Helping your child at home

Thank you to everyone who came to the curriculum meeting yesterday. If you could not make it  please let us know as we will be arranging a morning session very soon for those parents who wish to attend.

For information on how we teach maths using Numicon there is a useful parent’s page on their website.

For more information on the correct pronunciation of phonemes this website is very useful.

19 November 2010

This week’s homework is creative.

I can tell the time.

It’s due on Wednesday 24 November.

The children could:

• Show the time on analogue clocks
• Show the time on digital clocks
• Calculate time intervals (durations)
• Create a timetable of a typical day

19 November 2010

This week’s spellings have the suffix ‘ness‘, which helps to change adjectives (describing words) like tidy into nouns (things) like tidiness.  Can you change the words into adverbs (which often end in ‘…ly’) to describe how you might do something?

They also have the rule of ‘drop the y for an i‘. These spellings will be tested on Friday 26 November.

New Literacy Module: Traditional Stories

For the rest of the term, Year 2 will be plunged into a world of dragons, princesses and wizards. How much does your child already know about fairy tales and traditional stories? See what stories or characters they can take away from this picture below.

This would be a great time to introduce (or re-visit) stories at home like ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ etc. How well can your child describe the main character and how well can they describe the villain?

12 November 2010

This week’s homework is creative and is due in on Wednesday 17 November.

I can design a bus or train that is good for the environment.

Ideas that we came up with as a class included:

• Harnessing animal power to move the vehicle
• Using manpower to move the vehicle in a Flintstones style pick-it-up-and-run-with-it way!
• Using old vegetables as fuel
• Making trains and buses at least double decker to maximise the number of passengers per journey

It is up to you how you present your ideas. You could draw and label the vehicle, explaining the special features. You could make a collage using different materials. You could make a prototype – which was an ambitious idea by one of our class members – and photograph this for your homework book!

(Don’t forget our rule: homework should ‘fit’ onto one side of the homework book, but could have flaps and accessories that extend this!)

Good luck! I will look forward to seeing what your creative minds come up with this week!

12 November 2010

For the next couple of weeks our spellings will all be words with prefixes. This week we are learning words with ‘dis’, ‘de’ and ‘un’ prefixes.

Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-10. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-15.

1. unable

2. decode

3. unwell

4. dislike

5. defuse

6. untidy

7. disagree

8. unpopular

9. disappoint

10. unusual

11. decompose

12. disappear

13. untrained

14. dishonest

15. unenthusiastic

Spellings will be tested on Friday 19 November. Good luck!

Anti-Bullying Week SEAL statement 15 November

As part of Anti-Bullying Week this week our SEAL statement is ‘I can be kind to someone feeling left out.’ This year’s theme for Anti-Bullying Week is ‘Taking Action Together’

During this week classes will cover Anti-Bullying as part of their SEAL lessons.  In addition, some classes will be working with visiting drama companies to look at issues such as cyber bullying.

Further information can be found at:

http://www.childline.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx

http://www.bullying.co.uk/

http://www.parentlineplus.org.uk/default.aspx?page=bullying&tags=19

http://www.kidscape.org.uk

http://www.childnet-int.org/

Supporting your child’s learning

Don’t forget the Curriculum Evening this Wednesday at 6.30pm!

For ideas for helping your child at home, download some useful leaflets from Early Education entitled ‘Maths is everywhere’ and ‘The road to reading’.