SEAL
The SEAL topic for this half term is ‘Getting On’. We’ll encourage the children to think about ways in which we can get on with others in situations such as playtimes or group learning. We’ll discuss different friendship tokens that can be given such as a smile or a compliment. I’ve been really pleased so far with how well Year 2 generally get on well as a whole class.
09 November 2012
Please learn these words for a test on Friday 16 November.
Words containing the oa letter pattern, which create a ‘long o’ sound.
| boat |
| goat |
| soap |
| coat |
| road |
| loaf |
| soak |
| toast |
For those of you that want a challenge…
You could write the words in a sentence eg I made the toast.
DT
Today, we’ve made the frames for our vehicles. We’ve also glued on our axle mounts and most groups have constructed their axles and wheels.
09 November 2012
We are revisiting one of our key spelling rules this week. The spellings are all words where you have to drop the y for an i when adding ly.
Children will be tested on eight out of the ten words on Friday 16 November.
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1. |
moody |
moodily |
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2. |
nasty |
nastily |
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3. |
easy |
easily |
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4. |
giddy |
giddily |
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5. |
greedy |
greedily |
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6. |
hasty |
hastily |
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7. |
cheeky |
cheekily |
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8. |
noisy |
noisily |
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9. |
hungry |
hungrily |
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10. |
stealthy |
stealthily |
09 November 2012
This week the spelling chant to practise with your child is ‘drop the y for an i’. The route word of these spellings has an ly added (or fully) and the y is replaced with an i. For example, cheeky becomes cheekily.
There are lots of types of words where it’s necessary to drop the y for an i. In this list, all the words are adverbs. That means they all describe a verb.
| LO: drop the y for an i |
| cheekily |
| funnily |
| crazily |
| lazily |
| healthily |
| luckily |
| hurriedly |
| beautifully |
What a busy week!
Year Six have made a great start to this half term with some awesome artwork, splendid spelling games and winning the Cool Class Cup!
Well done and keep it up!
DT
We are currently in the middle of a DT project. The children are working in groups to design and make a prototype of a moving vehicle. In the pictures below, the children are measuring and then sawing the wood for the frame of the vehicle.
09 November 2012
This week we are learning to spell words with double letters. Spellings will be tested on Friday 16 November.
| A | B |
| embarrassment
millennium occurrence possession occasionally questionnaire dissipate incidentally magically millionaire |
balloon
dumbbell misspell broccoli occasionally coolly difference generally magically success |
Learning about mood in literacy
In literacy, we’ve been learning about how authors create mood by describing how a character is feeling. We’ve been focussing on the things that a character’s body and face do which show their emotion.
In the pictures, the children are building a phrase bank of these things to use in their writing next week.
09 November 2012
This week’s spellings are a recap of split digraphs (a-e, i-e, o-e and u-e). The ‘e’ at the end of the word indicates the word has a longer vowel-sound in the middle – think about the difference between hop and hope, for example.
Your child will be tested on Wednesday 14 November 2012.
- make
- take
- spike
- broke
- smoke
- snake
- brake
- like
- huge
- came