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08 May 2015

Here are this week’s spellings. There will be a spelling test on Friday 15 May.

08 May 2015

This is the second spelling week about verbs. This time, all the verbs contain a long vowel sound and end in e. This e is dropped when it’s changed to the continuous form. As before, the verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

• Infinitive – I like to shop.
• Present – She shops very often.
• Past – She shopped all day long.
• Continuous – She was shopping.   She is shopping.          

Group 1 

Group 2 

08 May 2015

The homeworks this week are Talk Time and Practice Makes Perfect.

The Talk Time homework is:

Is it ever ok to lie? 

This homework will link with next week’s SEAL focus about telling the truth and saying sorry. Children should discuss the homework and make notes in their homework books ready for the class discussion on Wednesday.

The Practice Makes Perfect homework are two Mathletics activities about fractions, decimals and percentages. These activities follow the learning in maths lesson on this from the previous week.

What’s going on? 11.05.15

For the week beginning 11 May, our topic continues to focus on night time but we’re really exploring the animal world. Bats, foxes, badger, owls and hedgehogs will be the topic of conversation as we think about describing what they look like as well as thinking about how they behave. Lots of us have wondered why they come out at night so we shall focus on how these animals are adapted to night time.

Maths

Everyone will revisit multiplication and division this week. It’s great to look at them together so that we can understand them as opposites. Practise times tables at home (particularly 5s as this will be our test on Friday), thinking about how we can use this to know division facts too eg 4 x 5 = 20, so 20 / 5 = 4. When do you use division and multiplication at home? Maybe when you’re sharing sweets or making a recipe bigger to feed the whole family.

English

Unfortunately, we’ll be delving into Mr Twit’s revolting beard! I wonder how many synonyms for disgusting we can learn and if we can remember all of the food that gets stuck in his bristly hair. Ask your child what they think about Mr Twit and why they think that using events from the book.

If you have any questions, pop in and see us.

Creative homework – If I ran the country…

As we’ve all had election fever this week, Year 2 imagined what they would do if they won the election and became Prime Minister. Here are some of their ideas.

Ismail even recorded his speech for us to watch and he was very convincing. Quite the aspiring leaders!

Creative homework – Night Time

As we’re learning about night time, the children did a Creative homework showing what they’d learnt about night time so far.

Josh wrote a great poem all about night time.

Ben created a night time mind map with a dark background.

Albert made night time jobs out of Lego!

We also thought about what we didn’t know about night time and, therefore, what questions we’d like answering. Here are a few…

Isaac wondered…

Noorpreet pondered…

Grace asked…

Ripley queried…

Lewis speculated…

Ben quizzed…

Thomas probed…

Ishaan deliberated…

What a curious class we are! I only hope we can find at least some of the answers before we leave Year 2!

08 May 2015

This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due Wednesday 13 May 2015.

I can talk about my favourite book character.

This week, Year 2 have been writing character descriptions. We have been looking at characters from different Roald Dahl stories and we’ve talked about their appearance, behaviour, likes and dislikes and our opinions of them. In particular, we’ve looked at the characters from The Twits. Can you ask your child about their favourite book character and talk about how you would describe them?

From our Homework Policy:

Talk Time homework

This involves a discussion topic eg ‘Should animals be kept in zoos?’ Children should make notes (even pictures, diagrams etc) ready to participate in a class / group discussion on the topic. Please make sure you write a comment about the Talk Time discussions in the homework books.

Top Tips: Turn the telly off! Sit around the dining table! Have a chat and share opinions and ideas! Children should talk with family, friends and each other. (Your child should write some notes in their Homework Books.)

Talk times

At Moortown Primary, we really value the importance of speaking and listening:

• the more a child listens well to lots of speaking, the more (s)he will be able to understand and use and write
• the better a child speaks, with interesting words and structures, the better (s)he will write, with interesting words and sentences

Thanks to the parent (Reception, Year 4) who recently mentioned a great resource. I’ve shared it with teachers, but why let them have all the good ideas?! Use the ideas in The Key Jar to open up some thought-provoking discussion at home or on a journey.

(Find out more information here.)

Celebration for ‘Nothing’

As we come to the end of our learning about ‘Nothing’, Year 1 enjoyed a celebration event.

During this topic, children have learnt how to look after and care for ‘Nothing’ by keeping him safe and healthy and in turn how they can apply this to their own lives.

Here are some of the comments made by the children to Nothing:

• ‘I like to be friends with you.’
• ‘I like you being our friend.’
• ‘I hope you enjoyed your party.’
• ‘I liked it when you came to my house.’
• ‘I hope you can come to my house.’
• ‘I hope you have a good time at your new class.’
• ‘I hope they make you safe.’
• ‘Remember don’t put other peoples’ medicines in your mouth.’
• ‘Bye, bye, Nothing.’

Phonics sessions

Thank you to all the parents who attended last week’s phonics sessions, the third of three rounds of ‘open mornings’ over the course of the year. Nearly all children had a dad, mum or other relative attend, taking the time to learn more about how we teach phonics and thinking about you can can support at home.  Here are a few of the comments:

• “Love these sessions – they are very helpful.  It’s amazing to see the class learning and seeing the improvements and progress over the year.  Very effective in helping parents to help their children.”
• “The children were so well-behaved and paying attention.  Great to understand more about how they blend words and to see how the class is progressing.”
• “Lovely session.  Very informative and great to see the children working.”
• “Surprised at the level – much higher than expected.”
• “Loved seeing the techniques used to create sentences and understand them.”

As you can see, visitors found the session entertaining and informative.  There were lots of comments about the high level of children’s learning.