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

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.

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