Week Beginning 9th December 2019

December 7, 2019


December 2019
Saturday 7th December 2019 – Christmas Fair
Thursday 12th December 2019  – Year 2 Christmas Production
Friday 13th December 2019 – Christmas Jumper Day

On Tuesday afternoon, the children will be going to Croydon Central Library to watch a BRIT school production .

The Christmas Concert will take place on Thursday 12th December at 2:15pm. We look forward to seeing you there!

English – Writing

The children will be using pictures to stimulate their writing in their writing journal. We will encourage the children to ensure that they use features of Year 2 writing.

  • write simple coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real of fiction)
  • write about real events, recording these simply and clearly
  • demarcate most sentences in their writing with capital letters and full stops, and use question marks correctly when required
  • use present and past tense correctly and consistently 
  • use co-ordination (e.g. or/ and/ but ) and some subordination (e.g. when/if/that/because) to join clauses
  • segment spoken words into phonemes and represent these by graphemes, spelling many of the words correctly and making phonically-plausible attempts at others
  • spell many common exception words
  • form capital letters and digits of the correct size, orientation and relationship to one another and to lower-case letters
  • use spacing between words that reflects the size of the letters 

 
English- reading
We will start a new book called The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl. We will also be learning some new reading skills as a whole class using ERIC. The children will build their repertoire of different reading skills through the year.
When reading with your child, please use VIPERS when asking them questions on the book they are reading.
This week the children will sit a short reading paper.

Maths

    • to make equal groups
    • to add equal groups
    • introduce multiplication sentences using ‘x’ symbols
    • to make multiplication sentences from pictures
  • to make equal groups 
    Children will understand that equal means the same/it has to be fair

  • to add equal groups 

    can will add equal groups and use these to help them identify the link between multiplication and repeated addition

  • introduce multiplication sentences using ‘x’.
  • to make multiplication sentences from pictures

    Children could say there are 5 groups of 1. This is the same as 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5. Which is the same as 5 x 1
RE
The children will be decorating candles  for advent.
ICT

Our ICT slot is on Tuesday afternoon. We are game testers. During this unit, the children will play and evaluate simple scratch games. We will discuss age ratings and increasing game addiction.

 

Art

The children will decorate Father Christmas, ready for the Christmas Fair.

Music 
Ministrings will continue every Wednesday. This week we will play some instruments that belong in the string family.
PE
Our PE slot is on Monday afternoon. We are currently focusing on balance and co-ordination.
Please ensure all children have their full PE kit in school (fully named).
PSHE
We have introduced the children to a programme called Zones of Regulation which we are hoping will help regulate feelings and emotions and offer the children the correct way to talk about their feelings. This week  we will continue to  think of suitable ways to regulate their feelings and match emotions to different zones.

Is your child an author?

 

If yes, head over to Grant Koper’s website. Your child has the opportunity to have their story published on his website and their story read out of YouTube by Grant himself!!!