Hello Squirrels and Squirrel adults. I hope you are all well and you're enjoying the autumn changes in and around Whaddon.
We certainly did during our forest school sponsored walk: a whopping 2 and a half hour 5k walk to Oxley Park and back. We had great fun along the way and some chocolate biscuits halfway round certainly helped keep us going. Enjoy these photos below of our wonderful midweek walk.
Within class we have been very busy. Addition of 2-digit (Y2) and 3-digit (Y3) numbers using the column method with carrying, autumn poem writing, wildlife surveying and Harvest Festival celebrations have all been underway.
At home:
- Please practice adding numbers together using different methods. Encourage your child to use objects or draw pictorial representations to help or to check their answer if they can work sums out in their head. Support them to use their number bonds to 10 and 20 knowledge or doubles work to speed up their problem solving. Alternatively, you could solve some addition sums yourself and ask your child to check your answers to see if you are correct! Year 2 parents, please make sure the sum answers are not larger than 99. Year 3 parents, please make sure the sum answers are not larger than 999.
- Conjunctions: we have been working hard on using conjunctions to add detail to our writing during super sentences. Challenge your child to add more detail or extend their sentences by using 'and', 'but', 'so', 'because', 'if', 'that' and 'when'.
- Poetry: explore poems with your child at home. Find some to read in a bouncy rhythm or spot rhymes together. Talk about line length and stanzas (verses). Make up your own poems about whatever you like!
- Talk about autumn: observe the changing season with your child and discuss why some trees lose their leaves but others don't, or perhaps how animals are preparing for winter.
- Use the Doodle apps little and often.
- Read every day!
It isn't long to go until half term now!
From Miss Cartwright
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