P2/3 Golden Treasures week beginning 9th November
It’s been another busy week of learning in the Golden Treasures class. Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve been up to.
Literacy
- Reading in our reading groups and during BEAR time
- Continuing to enjoy the story of James and the Giant Peach as a class
- Practising our alphabetical order skills and using a dictionary
- Spelling:
- Team Jewel: single sounds d, o, g
- Team Gold: using magic e in i words for example like, bite, wide, shine, line, time, grime.
- Team Treasure: oo/ew words. Core list: broom, cool, pool, poor, moon, new, chew, few, stew, grew; Challenge list: balloon, bedroom, moonlight, school, choose, chewing, stewing, fewer, mildew, newspaper; Tricky word revision: any, many
- Writing using description all about Autumn
- Continuing to work on handwriting, focussing on correct formation of our letters
- Finding out what a noun is (it’s a naming word such as table, chair, Lucy, Edinburgh).
Ideas for home learning
- Finding your spelling sounds in a magazine, comic, book or newspaper
- Sorting the spelling lists above into alphabetical order
- Reading (or being read to) a book of your own choice at home.
Numeracy
- Continuing our learning about telling the time using analogue and digital clocks (o’clock and half past times)
- Practising our addition skills through the chilli challenge in our new maths jotters
- Practising missing number addition (for example 7 + ? = 11)
- Starting our learning on subtraction, using the counting back strategy. We talked about how this works really well when the number we are taking away is a small number. We used number lines and hundred squares to help us.
Ideas for home learning
- Talk about your daily routine with an adult at home. Can you talk about what time you get up, go to school, have lunch and so on?
- With an adult, find some important numbers from your home. For example, your door number, birthday, parents’ ages. Write down these numbers and then for each one, roll a dice and take away the number that you roll.
Other Areas
- RME- finding out a little about Diwali, which many Hindus will be celebrating this weekend. We went outside to chalk Rangoli patterns in the playground.
- Outdoor PE- working in pairs and groups using equipment to make up our own games. We’ll teach each other these next week.
- Continuing our topic work by finding out a little bit about Norway, where the author Roald Dahl was from.
- Finding out about Buddy using the NSPC resources: Speak Out Stay Safe!
- Enjoying some Children in Need activities as a class.
Ideas for home learning
- Watch the video below to remind you of the story of Rama and Sita
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060d14t
- Design your own Rangoli patterns (see our fab examples below)
- Make up a PE game for your family to enjoy.
Have a fantastic weekend everyone!
Mrs Tweedie and Mrs Graham
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