P2c Reflective Friday 18.1.19

LITERACY

Reading homework books will come home in the week beginning 28th Jan, but don’t worry, we’re doing lots of reading in class in the meantime

Our spelling pattern this week is the split digraph a-e, or ‘magic e’ . W have learned how adding a silent e to a word with a short a sound can turn it into a stretchy sound like ay eg cap – cape, tap – tape

We have started our literacy investigation into the book ‘The man on the moon’ We created questions for Bob, and took turns in the hot seat in the role of a Bob to answer the questions.

We are enjoying sharing the Jill Tomlinson novel ‘ The owl who was afraid of the dark’

Please continue to revise your tricky spelling words using the spelling city word lists ( accessed via the link below.)

We continue to enjoy “BEAR” time in class.

You may wish to use our Spelling City class page to play games and revise the tricky spelling words. n.b. this site works best on a laptop, but there is a free app available for tablets

Numeracy and maths

We are investigating pattern. We started with repeating patterns of shape and colour and are now looking at number patterns, counting in 2s, 5s, 10s 3s 4s and off decade 10s ( eg 3,23,23,33 etc )pattern

Other areas of the curriculum.

We have been learning about magnets and experimenting with a range of magnets and magnetic objects . We know that magnets have poles and that opposite poles attract and the same poles repel each other. We found that different magnets have different strengths. We discussed the fact that gravity is a bit like a magnet, attracting us to the earth.
In assembly we learned that our Building resilience focus this term is ‘ Get Active’ and we also learned a little about the work of a Martin Luther King jr
We decided that our topic focus this term will be the Dark. We spent time discussing what we would like to know. You can see a few of our questions below.
We continue to develop and learn through exploring our environment and playing cooperatively with our peers.