Common Exception Words for Years 1 and 2

Today we have sent home a list of the Common exception words for Years 1 and 2. These words are sometimes called ‘red words’ or ‘tricky words’ and they don’t quite follow the spelling or phonics rules that children are taught in years 1 and 2.

Why is this important? The thing about common exception words is that they’re very, well, common! Your child will come across them a lot when reading and writing.

Why not play some of these games on Top Marks to help you learn to spell the words?

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/words-and-spelling

Times Tables

By the end of Year 2, we would like all our children to know the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables. Please check your child’s book bag for times tables posters to keep at home or head to 2FD’s Google Classroom to download them. Also check out these times table songs on the Laugh Along and Learn YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ7TsTfuO2Zn3cmXLc62Ldg

Canadian Art

This week in our topic lessons we have been looking at the work of Canadian artist Christa Rijneveld who creates landscapes and mountain scenes using lines and spots.

We practised some of her techniques in our art books…

Number bond fun

This week we have practised our number bonds to 10 using lots of apparatus to help us!

Can you follow an instruction?

This week in our English lessons we have been learning how to write instructions. Our class text is ‘How to grow a sunflower’

We have had lots of fun drawing sunflowers, putting our instructions in order and even following other sets of instructions to draw and make things!

Geography – to identify the position and significance of the Equator

We learned where the Equator is and that places on Earth near to the Equator are hot. We discovered that places get colder as they get closer to the North Pole and South Pole. We labelled a huge outdoor drawing of the Earth and sorted photographs of locations, people and animals according to where they are found on Earth.

Our afternoon of exploring…

Today we went on our very own hunt around the school grounds in search of micro habitats. We found spiders, beetles, woodlouse, snails and slugs!

We then continued with our World Explorers topic work and took a journey via Google Earth to some of Canada’s famous sites.

We visited Niagra Falls, Mt Logan and Lake Ontario to see if we could spot the Human and Physical features of each place.

Learning to count in multiples

This week in our Maths lessons we will be practicing counting in 2’s , 5’s, 10’s and 3’s

Watch this short video to help you brush up on those skills…

Circle Time

The Elves and the Shoemaker

In our English lessons this week we have been learning about the traditional tale ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’.

We practised actions and drew story maps to help us to remember the order of the story…