We had a fantastic first few days back and are excited for our first full week of learning.

Writing

We are going to be using the plans we did last week to write a non-chronological report about Howard Primary School before moving on to our first key text: Leon and the Place Between.

We will be thinking carefully about new vocabulary in the story and getting to know the story really well.

We are focusing on spelling this week; in particular, the year 2 key words.

Reading

We are going to begin our class read: Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl.

We are also going to complete a reading comprehension activity so that Miss Stroud knows how good our reading is.

Our focus this week is introducing whole class guided reading sessions using pictures as a stimulus and using ERIC skills to practice answering questions about pictures and texts.

This is an example of the type of picture and questions we will be using:

Maths 

We will be starting our formal maths lessons this week. Our first block is number and place value.

This week we will be focusing on number to 100 including reading & writing the numbers. It would be very helpful if children could practice writing the numbers in words at home ????

We will be introducing different representations of numbers to the children across the week including using numicon, dienes, bead strings, part-whole models and number lines.

Topic

We will be doing some work on ‘The Circus’ to fit in with our key text.

History

We are going to learn about Amy Johnson, a local historical figure.

Science

We will be starting our work on materials.

PSHE

We will be continuing with our new module of Zippy’s Friends.

P.E

To be confirmed.