Santa claus came to town

Santa Claus

 

 

Year 2 enjoyed a visit from Santa Claus himself.

They all received a special gift from him.

 

I have taken a photo of each child receiving their gift and will print this off and give to your child at the end of today for you to keep.

Fred Fingers

                                               

 

I have assessed the children today on their reading and moved some children up a level to trial over the holiday.

 

Please encourage them to use their Fred Fingers to read new words.

Christmas Show

 

Year 2, your are all superstars!

Well done, the show was amazing.

 

Thank you for all the parents and family members who came to support the class.

I am sure you all enjoyed it.

 

Just to remind everyone it is our party tomorrow morning, and non-uniform on Wednesday.

 

 

 

Pyjama Day

 

The children and staff enjoyed coming to school in their pyjamas.

Thank you for the money raised for the school´s chosen charity.

 

Have a great weekend, see you on Monday for our big show!

 

Maths assessments

 

Magical Maths Magicians

 

Well done to all the children, they had their final end of term maths assessment this morning and they all did amazing. I´m sure they all came home yesterday and told you their scores for their test.

 

It was a very tricky test today but have done very well.

They should be very proud of themselves.

 

I will be photocopying their test papers and send them home next week for you to see the level of the test and their fantastic results.

 

 

 

Christmas Nativity

 

Year 2 have had their final rehearsal this morning for their show.

 

We

 look forward to seeing you all at the Christmas Nativity on Monday, the children have worked so hard.

Homework

 

This week Year 2 have 4 pieces of homework.

 

Two maths; the first is 22 more and 22 less. Please encourage the children to use their 100 square that is stuck at the front of their homework book. The second is a few short Christmas maths task for them to answer.

 

Two Literacy, the first to fill in the prepositions, such as on, under, over, etc. The second is a Christmas senses poem. The children just complete the sentences of what they can hear, see, smell, feel and taste, by using the pictures on the sheet.

Library books

 

Thank you to all the parents who attended parents evening last night, I have a few more parents to see this afternoon and tomorrow.

If you have not been able to attend a meeting and would like to do so, please either email me or write a note in your child's message book to arrange a more convenient time.  

 

 

From speaking with parents last night, I was informed that the children enjoyed taking home a library book last year.

I thought this would be a great idea for year 2 to continue with this as it gives the children the choice of what they would like to read.

 

This will start after the Christmas holidays.

If these could also be returned on Wednesdays (along with reading books and homework) I will then allocate their register/morning book activity to changing their library books.

 

Pyjama Day

 

Just to remind you all it is pyjama day on Friday, the children and staff can come in dressed in their pyjamas. We ask if your child could bring in 1 euro, which will be donated to the schools chosen charity.

 

Christmas Party

 

On Tuesday Year 2 will be having their Christmas Party, we ask if parents could bring in a small snack such as a bag of crisps, a few cakes, biscuits, juice, etc.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Read Write Inc.

 

 

I would like to say a big well-done to all of the children in Year 2, I have just completed their RWI assessments and I´m very happy with all of their results.

 

In such a short time of using this program they have made great progress.

 

 

 

Fred said to give them all a

 

FAAAAN-TAS-TIC!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Costumes

 

Nativity Costumes

 

Could I have the remaining costumes by Monday please, we will be doing their first dress rehearsal on Monday afternoon.

 

I can´t wait to see them all dressed up!

Homework

 

This week the children have only 2 pieces of homework.

 

One is a letter to Santa, they have been learning how to layout a letter this week and what they need to include in it.

 

The second is their maths, which is position, direction and movement.   

 

All children will be completing their maths end of term tests and Read Write Inc. tests next week.

They will be tested on all areas of what they have been taught this term.

 



Read Write Inc.

 

The children will not receive any Red and Green words this week due to the Fiesta days and more Christmas linked Literacy lessons.

 



Costume letters

Christmas Nativity

 

 

The costume letters are being given out today, I have asked for their costumes to be brought into school for the 7th December so that the children can have a few practises in their costumes.

  

 

Wear blue on Friday

 

Tomorrow the school is having a

´Wear it blue´ day

in aid of Movember.

 

Movember is an annual event which takes place every November and sees men across the world grow moustaches to raise money for charity.

 

The Movember Foundation tackles mens’ health issues including prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health.

 

We are inviting the children to come dressed in blue and with a 1 euro donation that will go to this charity.

 

Literacy homework

This weeks Literacy homework is to create a postcard from their Literacy lesson on Friday.

 

The children will be listening to a story about a boy who is always late for school.

 

During this lesson, we will be learning about the layout of a post card, for example the address and stamp go on the right side and their message on the left hand side.

We will also be discussing their punctuation.

 

They will complete their first draft on Friday during their Literacy lesson, and their homework is to try to remember their message to the teacher (from the story) and the layout of the postcard.

 

This will form part of their Big Write the following Friday.

 

 

 

Read Write Inc.

 

 

From next week I will be sending home a list of what we call Speedy Green Words, Story Green Words and Red Words.

 

These words are for your child to practice reading and spelling.

 

The Speedy Green Words are words that the children need to be able to read quickly, the Story Green Words are words that they need to be able to read and understand prior to reading the story.

The Red Words are also words that they need to be able to read straight away.

 

We call Green words, words that we can use Fred fingers and/or Fred in our head to segment and blend to be able to read and write them, red words are non phonetic and have to learn by sight.

 

All the children should be able to read all the green words, as from their assessment they know these sounds. Please encourage your child to use these sounds to read the words.

 

We will also be practising these words every day at the beginning of their Read Write Inc. lesson.

 

 

 

 

Diwali celebrations

On Friday the infant children enjoyed a super morning celebrating Diwali.

 

They watched dancing and were taught a routine to join in with.

Well done Jiten and Nikhil for their fantastic dance and we loved your outfits.

 

They made yummy coconut balls

 



 

 Made their own Happy Diwali cards

 

 

 and designed their own Rangoli and Mendhi patterns and much much more.

 

 

Nasira you looked and danced wonderfully!

 

 

Thank you to all our mums that helped out on this morning.

We all really enjoyed it.

Remembrance day

On Friday 11th November Year 2 took part in a Remembrance Assembly.

Leading up to this assembly the children had completed a few different activities to remember the past and the things we are grateful for.

 

 

We all painted our hand to make a class poppy.

 

 

We also used clay to make a clay poppy.

 

 

Add adn subtract 2-digit numbers

I have received a few questions on how to add 2-digit numbers together, so I thought I would blog to let all parents know how we do this at school.

 

The children can use a 100 number square.

 

http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html

Is an interactive game or resource that children could use at home to practice or to help with their adding and subtracting.

 

A number bead

 

 

 

http://www.taw.org.uk/lic/itp/itps/counting_on_and_back_1_1.swf

Is an interactive 100 number bead that they can use

 

 

and cubes

 

 

The children have used all of these resources to support their adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers.

 

I hope this helps!

 



Maths theme

This week our maths theme is comparing and ordering numbers using the signs below.
 

 

The children have been told a story about a very hungry alligator who only eats the biggest numbers.

So the gators mouth is open and the biggest number.

 

I have found a short song on youtube to remind them of which way the sign goes, please see link below.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Efzu2slaI