Friday 22nd October

                                                          Happy Half Term 

Dear Super Squirrels,

 I hope you have enjoyed this half term as much as Daphne and I have. The things I have enjoyed are: 

. Getting to know you

.Teaching you

.Listening to your stories and ideas

.Mantel - The Ancient Oak Tree and Scaredy Squirrel

.Forest School

The things Daphne has enjoyed:

.Attention from all of you

.Ear strokes.

.When you talk to her

We have had a very busy half term. You should all be incredibly proud of yourselves. I am proud of all of you!

I will be sending home updated spelling booklets on Friday. Please just focus on five spellings at a time. Master these spellings and make sure you are able to apply them in a sentence before moving on to the next five. Everyone has progressed in their spellings. Keep up the good work. Well done and keep practising! 

Keep reading... Please do share the books you have been reading at home. It would be good to have some recommendations - so if you have enjoyed reading a particular book and would like share what you enjoyed about it, please do bring it in when you have finished reading it. 

Maths facts - ongoing practise of maths facts will always help your learning. Fluency of maths facts will enable you to learn new concepts. All the maths facts are on the Squirrels class page on the school website. 

You may like to keep a diary or a scrap book of your the things you do during half term. If you do and you would like to share it to the class, please bring it with you when we return to school.

 Wishing you and your families a very happy half term. Daphne and I will look forward to seeing you all in November!

From Miss Swain and Daphne

Friday 15th October

                                                     

                                                    

Welcome all to Squirrels' blog,

I would like to share with you the learning children have been doing so magnificently in class this week. In maths our unit on addition and subtraction is going well. Squirrels have been learning to subtract using column subtraction. As always, the children are encouraged to use concrete objects to begin with until they feel secure enough in their understanding before moving on to a pictorial representation and finally confident to apply their knowledge abstractly. They are all doing a grand job at this!

Having completed a character description using sub headings on Scaredy Squirrel, Whaddon Squirrels continue to have lots of fun in their mantle, 'The Ancient Old Oak Tree.' Unfortunately a storm struck the tree this week causing damage to two of its main branches. Thankfully our 'team' (Squirrels) of researching arboriculturists rose to the challenge of saving the tree despite the Mayor's concerns that the tree was a danger to the village and must be cut down for safety reason. As a researching team the arboriculturists have discovered ways to save the tree. 

SPaG (Spellings, punctuation and grammar) 

Continuing with work on suffixes. Squirrels have been learning the spelling rules and applying them for the ly suffix. Interestingly, Squirrels happily performed their harvest festival rehearsal magically with lovely smiles.

In class we continue to practise spellings, handwriting, maths facts and times tables.

Please remember... you can access the Squirrel class pages on the school website. Each child also has access to Doodle learning for maths, spellings and English as well as Rising Stars for a selection of year 2 reading books. 

If you are unsure of your child's log in for Doodle, please refer to Parentmail dated 15/09/2000

As always Squirrels, have a super weekend!

From Miss Swain and Daphne