Greys class 18th June

Date: 18th Jun 2021 @ 1:44pm

This week in Greys class we began the week by planting beans in a bag. We hung them up in the classroom and are having great fun coming in every day checking whether they have started to grow or not. It’s quite exciting as we are hoping that we will be able to see the beans start to sprout out of seed as this is something that we can’t see when we bury them in the soil. We watched a short video of what happens to a broad bean as it grows from seed to bean and drew pictures of ours labeling them and predicting the life cycle of our beans.

 

Mr Sones read us a Percy the Park keeper story entitled, The Secret Path and then we designed our own secret gardens in Art before using those designs in Literacy to write a senses poem about our secret gardens. He also read us a story called Growing Frogs and we wrote acrostic poems about Frogs. 

 

In Maths the Year 2s finished their work on time, please, please continue practising to tell the time to the nearest quarter hour on an analogue clock. They then moved onto mass and measuring in grams. The Year 1s have been partitioning numbers into 10s and 1s and then comparing numbers.

 

We have been reading a lovely story in our shared reading lessons called Grandpa’s Garden and our class read for this term is The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton.

 

In PE we performed an exercise in throwing different objects such as howlers and bean bags. We used a technique of accurate throwing, starting with a correct stance and noted how aerodynamic howlers should travel further than a bean bag. There were some excellent results that showed improvement during the course of the lesson.

The children are thoroughly enjoying the book reviews and please accept my apologies, as last week I forgot to list the books that were reviewed, so I shall detail those and this week’s below.

 

Sable – Billy & the Minpins by Roald Dahl

 

Ruby – The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell

 

Elle – The Birthday Crown by Davide Cali

 

Grace – Gangsta Granny by David Walliams

 

Lucas – Toto the ninja cat and the great snake escape by Dermot O’Leary

 

Holly – Unicorns don’t love rainbows by Emma L.Adams

 

Next week’s book reviews go to Henry, Lucien & Charlie. Book review templates can be found in the homework section of school spider or you may create your own.

 

Homework

 

Reading – Please read daily where possible and update GoRead.

Maths

Year 2 - Please continue to practice your timestables and telling the time to the quarter hour.

 

Year 1 – Please practice instant recall of number bonds to 20 and counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s.

 

Spellings

 

Year 1

strongest

coldest

kindest

darkest

deepest

colder

older

lighter

sharper

louder

 

Year 2

night

knight

blue

blew

whole

hole

that

so

because

or

 

Have a lovely weekend!