Welcome to Chestnut Class
We are back and ready for year 2!
Miss Lloyd is ready and raring, with some exciting new learning planned!
Mrs Truman will be helping us in the mornings with our learning. (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
Miss Sherwood will be helping us in the afternoons with specific activities.
Week 1
We are back and raring to go, with a full on week of new learning!
In English we started our new book 'A River' and have began different types of writing for it, including a character description and an alliteration poem! We have also been learning some new punctuation and grammar techniques, including , coordinating and subordinating conjunctions (when, because, but) and using an expanding noun phrase with the introduction of a comma.
In our Maths we have been working hard on our problem solving and reasoning. We have been able to practice the skills of "why" and "how". These will be developed everyday in our maths lessons as we practice them further.
We have been introduced to our new topic in History this half term, Toys from the Past. Last week spoke about our toys from home and thought about how we would sort them. We have been able to play in our toy shop role play area, with a variety of modern toys in!
BUT on Wednesday the toy shop had been mysteriously changed!? It was suddenly full of old toys from the past! We had the opportunity to play with these and we compared them to modern toys, think about their looks, size and material.
This week the children had the opportunity to run for the year 2 school councilor! There were some brilliant speeches, with lots of children very passionate about why they wanted to be school councilor!