Term 2, week 2
Week two of term two already!
A quick note about homework. Please do encourage the children to complete all elements of the homework, both in their books and online. If there are any issues, either with access to the online elements, or understanding of the homework, please do email on the class email address.
This week in English, we will continue our new unit, based on the book, Stone Age Boy, by Satoshi Kitamura. Having read the story, shared lots of ideas about it and discussed some of the new vocabulary, this week we will follow on with the use of adverbials of time and place, writing postcards from the boy to his parents. Later in the week we will also work on some drama based on the story.
Guided reading this week will focus on an extract from Dick King Smith’s ‘Henry the Pond Poet’. The children will listen to a reading of the extract and then share the story to build familiarity, reading in pairs and answering questions to discuss the narrative and language features of the text.
In Maths this week we will be starting our next unit, addition and subtracting, with the focus this week being number bonds and adding and subtracting 1s, 10s and 100s. Times tables will continue through the week, with opportunities for the children to practise their tables and completing a times table challenge.
In our Stone Age topic, we be considering what ‘grave’ goods tell us about the Bronze Age, and in IT, we will continue to investigate animations.
Mrs Johnson will continue the Incarnation unit in RE this week, investigating what the texts about baptism and Trinity might mean.
As Mrs Tompsett was unable to be with Maple Class last week, she will be starting the new Unit this week - ‘Volcanoes, Rocks and Soils’. The children will look at the key aspects of volcanoes. The children will complete the weekly spelling test on Friday too (words can be found in the home learning section) and have their weekly French session.
Maple class have PE on Mondays and Thursdays, and both sessions will be with myself and Mr Luckhurst.
Reading Records will generally be changed on a Monday and Thursday. We would continue to ask however, that children bring their books and Reading Records in to school each day and that they aim to read daily, ideally with an adult – details of this can then be recorded in the Reading Record. Pleased do contact me if you feel your child’s book is either too easy or too difficult, or if your child’s book has not been changed. There are times when a book will be sent home more than once, either because a child is reading chapter books, or if it is felt that the book needs to be read more than once to enhance familiarity.
I am always happy to answer any questions you may have, so please do contact me if you have any queries, using the class email address:
Best wishes
Mrs Smallcombe and the Maple Team