What will Class 2 be learning this term?

Maths
We use a lots of fun activities to help us to learn Maths with a large focus on mental and oral work.

This term we are focusing on:
• Counting, reading, writing and ordering whole numbers and knowing what each digit represents
• Describing and extending simple number sequences (including odd/even numbers, counting on or back in ones or tens etc)
• Knowing by heart all addition and subtraction facts for each number to at least 10
• Knowing that addition can be done in any order and using it to help do mental calculations more efficiently
• Knowing by heart multiplication facts for the 2 and 10 times-tables
• Estimating, measuring and comparing lengths, masses and capacities.
• Using the mathematical names for common 2-D and 3-D shapes; sorting shapes and describing some of their features
• Choosing and using appropriate and efficient strategies to solve problems, explaining how the problem was solved

Literacy
In Literacy this term we are focusing on reading rhyming poems and stories with familiar settings. Our writing will include labels, captions and recounts.

The children will be learning to:

• Attempt to spell unfamiliar words
• Form lower case letters correctly
• Write simple sentences independently
• Use language and structures from they have discovered when reading in their writing
• Punctuate sentences, using capital letters, full stops and question marks
• Apply what they know about story writing, such as settings, dialogue, characterisation, story language and structures, so that their own writing ‘sounds like a story’
• To read with fluency and expression, understanding the story and characterisation.
• To apply their phonic awareness and word building skills to their own independent spelling.

If you would like to help develop your child's writing at home, a great activity that you can do is ‘picture talks’. Find an interesting picture from any good story book, talk about what is happening in the picture and ask your child to write super sentences about it. A challenge could be to use ‘wow’ words to make their sentences more descriptive!! (Wow words are adjectives - describing words. E.g. The cake was delicious. There was a colourful rainbow. )

Have a look at some of these websites which are packed with games and activities to help children's' learning and are closely linked with the school curriculum:

Magic Key
Rhyming Words
Bonds to 10
Ordering Numbers
Partitioning numbers to add
Subtraction
Weight
2 Times Table
10 Times Table

BOOKS
Any stories involving toys:
Velveteen Rabbit
Paddington Bear
Anything from the Dogger series
Rhyming poems of any kind
Information books about toys
We will also be watching clips from Toy Story and Toy Story 2.