Class 2 Blog

• 13

  Dec

  Costumes

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  Thank you for the fabulous costumes sent into school. We had a run through in them this afternoon. They all looked great. Keep practicing the lines!
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  10

  Dec

  Senses poetry

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  Last week the children learnt by heart two poems based on a senses theme. This week we will be unpicking the key features a poet needs to use to create these types of poems and then writing our own to help spread the Christmas cheer. I was so impressed with their memory skills, far better than mine, so here is the poem map with picture clues on we used for one of our poems - see if your child/ren can recite it to you.
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  05

  Dec

  We're walking in the air

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  The children put together a very polished performance of the theme to The Snowman... actions and singing! Beautiful - well done Class 2.
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  05

  Dec

  Team work

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  The children demonstrated superb team work, delegation and perseverance skills yesterday afternoon. They were set the challenge of creating Christmas paper chains to reach across the classroom and were inspired by the staff room window to create their own window silhouette. We had teams of "cutters" and "stickers", a team of fabricators and even team mangers! The results still need some work but their efforts have certainly made the classroom look more "Christmassy" and given the children the chance to experience management and leadership skills as well as getting the work done.
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  30

  Nov

  Problem solving and reasoning

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  We have been testing out our reasoning skills in maths and developing them to prove our understanding, using of a range of strategies. Sometimes using number facts such as times tables, or partitioning or using concrete materials.
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  26

  Nov

  Reading for an audience

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  During "milk time" we have started having stories read to us by members of the class. It is an important skill to learn to speak clearly, confidently and expressively to our peers let alone do it whilst implementing our reading strategies. Well done Olivia for stepping up to be the first reader you did a fantastic job and set the bar high!
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  21

  Nov

  Tres bien classe deux

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  Class 2 have French sessions every Wednesday afternoon and have been learning vocabulary to help them communicate and explore their environment. Today's session involved learning the French words for the food we eat. Can they remember and use any of this new vocab at mealtimes at home?
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  20

  Nov

  Spellings

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  Our homework this week is to work on learning 10 common exception words; door, floor and poor, because, child and children, and, find, kind, mind and behind. In class we used different activities such as "rainbow writing" and scrabble scores to help us. We have also been looking at the phonemes (sounds) and graphemes (spelling sounds) to help us with less familiar words. Please keep working on this at home. You could try spotting these spelling words in your reading books.
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  16

  Nov

  The Snowman

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  In the Wednesday afternoon musical drama sessions with Miss Blythe the children have been using the Snowman story by Raymond Briggs as inspiration. This week they made snowmen puppets!
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  14

  Nov

  Working on new Maths strategies

  Posted by Mrs L Trotman

  This week we are tackling subtraction using 2, two digit numbers. We are developing strategies to support our ability to work out the solution by applying skills we have learnt previously. Yesterday we used partitioning to help us and today we explored using a number line.