Friday, 8th November 2024
Welcome to the second half of the autumn term!
It was lovely to see the children return well rested and ready to learn.
In English, the class first edited and then published their second big writing based on our class book, Ravi’s Roar. The stories read really well clearly showing that the children have put a lot of effort into writing their narratives. We have also started reading our next picture book to inspire our stories called, The Day the Crayons Quit. The class have really enjoyed reading the letters and answering inference type questions based on it.
In Maths, we have moved onto Addition and Subtraction. We consolidated our number bonds to 10 (from year 1) through playing interesting Maths games using the ten frames and playing cards.
In RE, we have looked at the second Catholic Social Teaching principle, the Preferential Option for the Poor. The children have reflected on people’s basic needs and found ways to support them in the form of a ‘reverse advent calendar’ where they came up with some great ideas such as donating to food banks, supporting a soup kitchen, donating socks and toothbrushes for the homeless, etc.
In History, the class role played some of the activities Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin completed on the surface of the Moon before participating in a reasoned debate about should there be a next Moon mission or not. The children came up with some brilliant arguments to support their views and communicated well to convince each other!
In Science, the children have looked at the human body and its needs, such as exercise. They partook in a practical enquiry to investigate what type of activity elevates their heartrates the most and looked at the basic parts of the heart and lungs to understood their roles within the body.
In Art, the children moved onto mono printing as their next medium and spent some time copying using nature themed video clips. In PE we moved onto invasion games.
Thank you to those of you who have sent in some photos to go onto our Remembrance display in class.
There is still time to send in special photos on Monday, ready for the school’s Remembrance Pilgrimage.
Have a lovely weekend,
Ms Varga
Home Learning:
Reading- please read with your child and sign your child’s reading record
Multiplication-https://ttrockstars.com/
Your child will bring home a TT Rockstars parent letter in their school bag today. Please support them in logging onto this new platform which in the future will allow them to practice their times table facts (initially 2s, 5s and 10s) in a fun but effective way. We shall announce top scorers weekly!
Maths- https://login.mathletics.com/
Please log onto Mathletics and complete the assigned activities.
