Class 2
Class 2 September 2020
Summer Term Learning
Week commencing Monday 22nd March 2021
Dear parents,
Just a quick note to remind everyone we have parents’ evenings this week on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Appointments were scheduled through the office and I have emailed everyone who has booked, their zoom invite.
Any problems please email me; [email protected]
I am still using Google Classrooms to post spellings every week as well as sending them home with the children every Monday.
Kindest Regards
Miss Curtis
Welcome Back Class 2!
Mrs Stephens and I are so looking forward to welcoming all children back on Monday 8th March.
You have all done such a super job home schooling and thank you once again for working so hard.
A few reminders about kit etc;
- Children to wear Woodland school kit on Monday and PE kits on Thursdays. We will have yoga on Tuesdays so girls may want to wear shorts under their dresses or bring in a spare pair for that session.
Uniform to be worn on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
- Please send children in with book bags on Mondays and Thursdays. This is the day we will change the reading books.
- Please drop off at 9am and collect at 3pm from the side gate.
- Children may bring in their own bottles of sanitiser to have at their desks and a class bottle will be available for regular use too.
We will commence spellings on Monday 8th when children will bring home words for a test on the 15th March.
We will quarantine and clean all reading books in the first week before starting to send them out on Monday 15th March.
Please return all home learning, especially Abacus workbooks. They will be quarantined for a week also.
Any questions please do not hesitate to contact me on;
Finally, I would like to say a massive thank you to Mrs Stephens who has been in school every day throughout lockdown delivering lessons and caring for the children of key workers. She has been incredible, as always and I am so grateful for all her hard work, dedication and support.
See you all on Monday.
Miss Curtis
Spring 2021
Spellings Year 1
Spellings Year 2
Year 1 Maths worksheets to accompany learning videos
Year 2 maths worksheets
✍🏻 New Handwriting Section. ✍🏻
Class Remote Learning in event of teacher absence due to COVID 19
A visit from Father Christmas
Our class visit from , ‘ The History Man’. All about our topic, ‘The Great Fire of London’.
GUNPOWDER!!!!
Model Fire Engine Project
Learning about wheels, axels and chassis in DT
October Half- Term Home Learning Project- Design a fire engine
What goes on in Phonics?
Room on the Broom Day
Autumn Art Lesson
Friday afternoon is individual reading time!
Place Value in Maths
Preparing for September 2020
Autumn Term Learning 2020
Molly’s 5 x table
Amie’s VE Day tea party
Johnson rehearsing his 5 x table facts!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Amie keeping up her reading!
Joseph’s plant investigations
Freddie’s Ingredients for soup
Amie’s Spring Poem
Amber’s Spring poem
Elliot’s Spring poem
Noah’s Spring Poem
Connor’ Spring poem
Parsnip and potato curried soup
Megan’s Spring poem
30 Day Lego Challenge
Learning at home- what you need to know in Year 1 and Year 2
Reading Recommendations
Spelling Tests
Letter and number formation guidance Class 2
Arctic Explorers Topic- January 2020
Geography
In Geography children will explore the Arctic Circle using a map and will be investigating the countries within the circle. They will be discovering the Arctic climate by describing the difference between summer and winter in the Arctic using weather icons.
Children will be identifying the physical features found in the Arctic and will be finding out which animals live in the Arctic and where they are found by using and reading maps. Children will be exploring different Arctic cities and the countries they are found in as well as comparing an Arctic town to a city in the UK.
Science
In Science children will be grouping and identifying characteristics of Arctic animals. We will be exploring the habitat of the Arctic and how animals have adapted to their surroundings. We will conduct a scientific experiment looking at the purpose of blubber and children will also be investigating ice and its properties by making observations and recording ideas.
Children will be experimenting with an ‘iceberg’ to see how it floats and behaves in different conditions.
History
In History children discover the way the traditional Inuit lived over 1000 years ago and will be challenged to think about how the Inuit culture has changed over the years. They will then use key words to describe the Inuit culture and compare the past and present lifestyles.
Art
In art we will be investigating the colours in Arctic landscapes. We will learn about the Aurora Borealis formations and using different art materials to recreate it. Finally we will be exploring Inuit sculptures and prints and describing the shapes and colours used in them.
DT
During DT we will design, make, test and evaluate a model Inuit boat.
PE
In PE we will be exploring Inuit dances and dance sequences and creating
dance moves for the Arctic animals studied.
Music In music we will be listening to Inuit throat singing and music and having a go ourselves!
Internet Safety Pack
Arctic Adventure Day 10th March 2020- Today we designed and made innuit boats, constructed an igloo from cake, created an Arctic dance and learnt Innuit throat singing!
Designing, building and testing Inuit boats- kayak and umiaks.
Arctic Dance- We were the sunrise, leaping polar bears, innuit in their kayaks and snow storms.
Arctic dance sequences
Arctic dance 3.MOV
Arctic Dance Sequence
Class 2 - Reading our new book, 'The Way Home for Wolf' (part one).
All of the children recorded their pages on iMovie and this is the final result!
Class 2 - Reading our new book, 'The Way Home for Wolf' (part two).
Class 2 - reading our new book, 'The Way Home for Wolf' (part three).
Class 2 World Book Day
Class 2 have been learning about the features of instruction texts this week
Weaving snowmen for Academy Day in class 2
Arcic Art
Arctic Animals and their characteristics
Blubber Experiment
The Snowman Writing
Topic trip to Think Tank and Planetarium 5th November 2019
Callow Construction Ltd
Dylan,Jacob and David cooking up a storm!
Class 2 groovers
Experimenting with cause and effect.
Water water everywhere....
Jaguar robots.
Clay pigs
Clay Faces in Woodland School
Autumn Equinox
The way the sun, Earth and Moon move around in relation to each other gives us our day and night, our spring, summer, autumn and winter.
The Earth itself is tilted as it moves around the sun. The tilt is very important because it means at certain times of the year more of one part of the Earth is facing the sun than at other times. This tilt gives us our seasons.
In June the northern part of Earth is tilted towards the sun meaning we get the most hours of sunshine giving us short nights and the longest day of the year.
In September, the Earth has moved further around the sun and now the tilt means the sun is facing the middle of the Earth. The rays of sun are shining on the Northern and Southern parts of the Earth equally. This means we get about the same hours of day time and night time.
We call this time of year autumn, and the day of the year when we have the most equal day and night is September 23rd and is called the Autumnal Equinox.
After the Autumnal Equinox the tilt of the Earth means we get fewer of the sun’s rays shining on our part of the world each day. The days get shorter and the nights get longer all the way through to the shortest day of the year at the Winter Solstice in December.
Celebrating the Autumnal Equinox 23rd September 2019- Curriculum Enrichment Day.
Happy Autumn Equinox! Class 2 raise a toast to the first day of Autumn with a glass of freshly squeezed apple juice.
Lucky Lions
Year 1 Maths.. number bond investigations
Look up, look down, look all around.... come and see what we discovered on our nature treasure trail at Woodland school.
Weaving stars
Excellent websites for children.
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Mega sites for maths |
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Smashing sites for science |
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Excellent sites for English |
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Inspirational sites for internet safety |
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Terrific sites for topics |
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Fantastic sites for French |
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Cool sites for computing |
Class 2 webpage for year September 2018- July 2019
Our trip to look at habitats in Bishopswood.
Big Blue Sky Day. Class 2’s wonderful art work.
The beautiful Sensory Garden
Quiet reading in the Sensory garden.
Year 2 time telling challenge. Wednesday 19th June.
Zog 6th June 2019
Book reviews
The Smartest Giant in Town .... literacy this term.
Camouflage Hands- going wild in Woodland School
Science in class 2
Class 2 World Book Day 2019
Excellent websites for children.
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Mega sites for maths |
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Smashing sites for science |
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Excellent sites for English |
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Inspirational sites for internet safety |
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Terrific sites for topics |
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Fantastic sites for French |
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Cool sites for computing |
5 x Tables!
Class 2 have been creating an array city whilst learning their 5 x tables. We have been learning our multiplication facts as well as their related division facts. 7x5=35. 35/5=7.
Class 2 enjoying a much deserved ‘Golden Time’.
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Reader of the week
Amelia proved to be a fantastic first, ‘Reader of the week’ reading ‘The Snail and the Whale’ fluently and confidently. Well done!
Spring Term 2019
This term children will learn about the Great Fire of London as an event beyond living memory. They will also consider ways in which we find out about the past using a variety of sources, for example the diary of Samuel Pepys and contemporary art. They will be introduced to thinking about the reliability of sources.
Spellings will continue to be handed out on Mondays in preparation for testing on the following Monday. I attach a pdf of the weekly spellings on the class 2 page of the school website every week in case the spellings get lost.
Maths homework will be sent home on Mondays and needs to be returned by Friday of the same week so that I can mark and prepare books for handing back the following week. Maths homework will be for Year 2's only this term. ( I have included a maths booklet detailing all of the methods and knowledge the children will need for their upcoming SATs).
PE will be on Wednesday and Friday and children will need outdoor PE kits as we will be doing hockey for this term. (Please send gloves and scarves too).
Woodland school is now on Thursday afternoons.
Daily phonics, spelling and cursive handwriting lessons will continue and this term we are learning to join our handwriting.
Parents evening is during the week commencing 1st April 2019 and I look forward to seeing you all then. In the meantime if you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me .
Best wishes and a Happy New Year.
Miss Curtis
Christmas time!
Callow End Christingle.
Coming Home
Class 2 have had a wonderful time reading ‘Coming Home’ by Michael Morpurgo. They have learnt about migrating robins from Scandinavia and the perilous journey they make every year to return to the UK.
They have made ‘ bird cakes’ to feed the Callow End robins over the Winter and have each written a set of instructions on how to make them during literacy lessons .
They have made their own robins from felt in design and technology and used them to create a colourful display border for our working wall.
This afternoon we went out into the beautiful new sensory garden and hung their bird feeders from the trees. We then waited quietly in the shelter for our first red-breasted visitor , the children were enthralled and I have never seen them so quiet!
Well done Class 2 , what a wonderful effort you have all made and how lucky your little robins are.
‘Coming Home’ by Michael Morpurgo
We are being very quiet and waiting to see our robin’s feeding.... shhhh
Class 2 read ‘Coming Home’ by Michael Morpurgo
A selection of brave Year 2’s read out sections of our class text. ( Hiccups courtesy of Charlie!)
Edith
Coco
Mike-Jay
Edith
Esme
The End
Reading champions!!
Reading information
D &T - making woolly hats.
