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Our Big Topic is….Animal Kingdom

Our topic this term is jam-packed with fun and exciting events which could potentially make this one of the best ever!

We had a special visitor join our class on Monday. Ask your child about Pip and the sort of habitat she lives in.

Year 4 are going to have the opportunity to visit Allerton Grange to create their own animations involving animals. Also this term, Year 4 will be identifying and hunting for animal habitats. This will involve mini-beast hunts locally, as well as looking at habitats all over the globe.

Finally, in response to children’s requests we have crammed even more art in this term! The children’s final piece will be a mud-roc sculpture of an imaginary animal.

Class assembly

The next Year 2 class assembly will be on Thursday 8 March. The previous date on the Year 2 newsletter was incorrect. We hope you can make it!

Class Assembly

Quick reminder for you:

Class Assembly on Thursday 19.01.12 at 2.40 pm.

Hopefully see you there.

Who can be a hero?

This will be one of the questions your child will be asking in our Big Topic this term.

• Is it a sporting hero? 
• A historical hero?
• A comic book hero?

All of these questions will be investigated and the children will be able to decide who they think is a hero.  There will be opportunities to think about local, national and worldwide heroes.   Are all heroes the same? 

Talk about your family heroes with your child.

How can you be a hero?

This week’s phonics

This week the new sounds are sh, ch, th, th and ng. The ‘tricky words’ are me, we and be.

When referring to the individual letters in these sounds, the children should now be encouraged to use letter names as letters do not stand for sounds when they form part of two-letter and three-letter graphemes eg the sound ‘sh’ is written with the letters s ‘ess’ and h ‘aitch’ not ‘ssss’ and ‘h’.

We also teach the children to join up the letters to form these digraphs to make it easier for them to remember.

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What is s split digraph?

A split diagraph is an English term under the study of phonetics. It describes a letter that splits during pronunciation. An example is ‘a-e’ which is used in words such as make and take.

Split digraphs are sometimes known as ‘magic e’ words; however, our children will refer to these sounds as split diagraphs.

We’ll be spending the next few weeks learning all about these sounds.

These words will be tested on Friday 20 January.

13 January 2012

This week’s spellings are all words that include contractions.

PE

PE is on Thursdays and Fridays. Please remember to have PE kits in school on these days.

We’ve been lucky enough to have sports coaching students from Leeds Metropolitan University teach Year 2 a variety of multi skills. This half term, we’ll continue with these sessions along with creating gymnastic sequences.

Rights and Responsibilities

This half-term, the SEAL theme is Rights and Responsibilities. Well done to Linda who received last week’s certificate for her contribution to the circle time about having the right and responsibility to stay healthy. This week, we’ve been thinking about having the right to belong to different communities, and the responsibility to care for these communities.

Heroes

Our next Big Topic is Heroes. From Nelson Mandela to David Beckham, we’ll learn what makes each person a hero. The topic has strong art links to Pop Art and Lichenstein so we’ll be trying to create our own versions through printing. In ICT, we’ll use superheroes to create our own comic strip.

I’m looking forward to teaching this topic as I think the children will find it very exciting and engaging!