Back to school

 

I hope you all had a great half term break!

 

Welcome back into our second half term.

 

The countdown has already started for our Christmas show,

The date to put into your diary is Monday 19th December.

Could you let me know if your child will not be present at school on this day, as I will be allocating parts this weekend.

Marga will be emailing all parents, but if you could either email me directly or write a message in their message book if they will NOT be at school on that Monday ASAP I would be extremely grateful.

 

Further details on the show will follow shortly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guy Fawkes celebrations

Bonfire Night

 What a busy week Year 2 have had!

They have had a fun week learning about Diwali, Halloween and Bonfire Night.

Yesterday they were busy making their own bonfire paintings using their hands, oil crayon fire work pictures, making model fire work rockets and using pipe cleaners to create beautiful fire work paintings.

  

Diwali

 

We have had lots of fun learning about Diwali this week.

 

The children have enjoyed doing various activities including making clay Diya's, hand print elephant paintings, lanterns, rangoli patterns and mehndi designs and of course listening to the story of Rama and Sita.

 

I would like to wish all the families who celebrate Diwali a fantastic holiday over your five day celebration.

It would be great if you take any photo's of your festivities that I could show the class after the half term.

 

 

Read Write Inc.

We are two weeks into our Read Write Inc. programme and the children are really enjoying it.

They have been learning and practising many new skills, including working with a partner (taking turns to read and listen to each other and then discussing certain questions), using their 'Fred fingers' and 'Fred in your head', to hold a sentence and to build a sentence.

They have also been introduced to new RWI silent signals, where no verbal instruction is given just a hand signal. These have include: Turn to your partner, team stop, my turn your turn and 1.2.3 (using fingers).

They have also been practising their 'hand writing' position, which gets the children ready to write.

Ask your child to show you these signals.

This link will take you direct to the RWI web page if you would like any information, there is a parents tab that explains more about the programme and the benefits it has for your child.

http://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/

Breast Cancer Charity

 

The school is raising money for the Breast Cancer charity.

 

We are asking children to come to school tomorrow wearing anything pink and bringing in 1 euro for the charity.

 

I look forward to seeing them all in Pink tomorrow.

 

 

Homework

 

 

This week the children have 4 pieces of homework:

 

1: ESL symmetry (butterfly) the children need to copy the pattern on the other half of the butterfly and then colour. The blank butterfly, they can design their own patterns where both sides are the same.

 

2: A Carroll diagram for them to cut out the shapes and glue into the correct box using the different criteria.

 

3: We have been talking about Autumn and the changes we see in the environment and also what celebrations happen at this time of year. They have 'In the Autumn I see..' where they can list anything that they can remember.

 

4:  Has various short Literacy activities.

 

Happy home work time!

Topic Activities

Toilet Rolls

 

Next week year 2 will be making various craft activities for our Topic.

If you have any toilet or kitchen rolls, please could you bring these into class.

 

Thank you in advance.