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.
Good choices lead to good times
This is what happens when we make good choices – we get extra playtime in the front playground.
Into the woods….
Yesterday, we went for a walk to the top of Shadwell Lane and found a little woodland area. We spent an hour looking at the different trees, finding different leaves and sketching. We’re so lucky that we can find an area like this so close to school.
Maths and leaves?
As we’d picked lots of different types of leaves on our walk in the woods, we looked at them closely today and were able to do some maths, too. We knew that leaves were important for photosynthesis because they collect the sun’s light. By working out the area of the leaves, we could estimate which leaf would collect the most sunlight (the leaf with the largest area).
Fab phonics
As always, we practise our spellings everyday in phonics lesson. Green group have been working on prefixes and suffixes for a lot of the year so this week we played a game to recap the double-up rule.
