Welcome to Elm Class

I can't quite believe we are into Summer Term already! Here's what we've got coming up during our first half of spring term in Elm Class.

This half term our text in English is called 'Rosie Revere Engineer'. After studying the text, and its features, the children will write their own invention narrative. We are focusing on expanded noun phrases, commas in a list, the use of conjunctions and of course using our neatest handwriting. Not forgetting our capital letters and correct punctuation. 

Our humanities topic is linked to our English text and this half term it is 'Inspiring Inventors'. The children will be exploring and analysing different inventions and how they have changed over time. These will include cars, trains and even the World Wid Web.

Our maths focus will be fractions and time.

In science we will be exploring plants. We will be looking at what they need to grow and also studying how they grow too.

Please see the curriculum overview for the Summer term (under the curriculum tab) for a learning overview for each subject. 

Forest School

Forest school is every other Wednesday, led by Mrs Darlington. Children should come into school in their forest school clothes and have appropriate footwear with them.

PE

Year 2 will have PE on a Thursday afternoon, led by ASM.  Please ensure that your child has their PE kit and that it is in school all week. 

Helping your child at home

Reading: Please read regularly at home with your child and our school expectation is to read a minimum of 4 times weekly. All children will have a school reading book, however there is nothing stopping you and your child from finding other interesting texts to read together e.g. articles in the local newspaper, non-fiction books about a hobby or even comic books.

Maths: It is key at this stage that all children are confident and fluent with their number bonds to 10 and 20, as this will help them moving forward as we start to work with bigger numbers. NumBots is brilliant for building fluency as well as using apps such as One-Minute maths. Children can also practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. As the children get more confindent they can start to use TT Rockstars to begin to build their timestable knowledge.

If you have any questions please get in touch via class dojo or bmatthews@smallwood.cheshire.sch.uk