We have been busy learning about the festival of Diwali and the story of Rama and Sita. This has been fascinating and linked really well with our theme of Heroes and Villains. The children have learnt how and why Hindus (and people of other faiths) around the world celebrate this lovely festival.


This week it is International Week at Garrick Green and our focus is on the United Kingdom.
All children have been put into one of three school teams. See if your child can remember which team they are in.

We have been finding out and writing facts about Ben Nevis, Snowdon, Slieve Donard and Scarfell Pike. Today the children have made traditional breads from different parts of the UK. To link with this, in maths we have learnt about reading scales and measuring. 



Some ideas for home learning activities...

• retell the story of Rama & Sita for someone at home
• make and decorate a diwali lamp
• Watch the video at:   https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/lets-celebrate-diwali?collection=lets-celebrate-celebrations 

• practice saying where you live. Can you say your address? 
• find where England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are on a map
• bring in photos of you in any of those countries for the UK boards in our classrooms
• find out more facts about England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland e.g. naming and locating the capital cities

• learn to say your ten times tables off by heart
• ask an adult to ask you questions such as "What is five times ten?" see if you can answer straightaway
• use your marvellous mathematical measuring skills to help cook at home

Week commencing 2nd October 2017

What a fantastic start to Year 2!

We have been...

• enjoying the new layouts of the classrooms
• learning the routines and expectations of Year 2
• doing lots of team games that require lots of concentration and team work
• working and playing hard

In our topic work we have been investigating logos. We looked at examples such as The British Red Cross, RSPCA, Norfolk Constabulary and Air Ambulance. Then we looked at the logos of Superheroes. We learnt about the features of a successful logo and then used that to design our own.  

In English we have been having daily SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) lessons and reading and writing words with the Phase 3 and 5 letters and sounds. We have been developing our knowledge of how to write a perfect sentence and trying hard to apply this in our own work, 

We hope you have begun your Super Reading Challenge. Remember, the task is to read your school reading book "Teacher Book" for 15 minutes at least five times this week.  You can change your book as often as you like and we do give daily reminders in class for children to do this.

 In maths we have been looking at place value and number formation.  We have been using apparatus to understand how two and three digit numbers are partitioned into hundreds, tens and ones.

Mrs R and Miss Tovell are really please with how the children have settled into Year 2, watch this space for news and information. We will (do our best to) update the blog on Friday afternoons. 

Do come and see one of the Year 2 team if you have any queries or concerns.