Our Autumn 1 Journey
Our big question is 'I wonder what makes a home?' See what we will be learning this half-term in our curriculum web:
See our homework activities for this half-term. We hope the children will enjoy completing these activities and look forward to seeing the children's amazing work.
English
In English, we started with a exploring 'Charlie Cook's Favourite Book' and immersed ourselves in the text. We brought our most-loved characters to life using freeze framing to help us understand characters' thoughts and feelings and think about what we would do if we were in their shoes. This has been a great hook into helping us develop our love of reading and have a lot of fun!
Our key text for this half term is 'The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark'. We looked through a bag of mystery items to find clues to make predictions on what we thought the story would be about- it was very exciting!
We found a sock, some hot chocolate, an owl, a pair of glasses, a saucepan and a cat!
We love reading and our classroom is over flowing with so many wonderful books including fiction and non fiction. What ever you like to read, here in school we will have something for you!
Phonics
Phonics will be taught daily for at least 20 minutes a day. Your child will also have allocated time to visit our school library and will bring a library book home for you to share together.
READING PRACTICE BOOK: this has been carefully matched to your child's current reading level. If your child is reading it with little help, please do not worry that it's too easy - your child needs to develop fluency and confidence in reading. Listen to them read the book. Remember to give them lots of praise - celebrate their success! If they can't read a word, read it to them. After they have finished, talk about the book together.
SHARING BOOK: In order to encourage your child to become a lifelong learner, it is important that they learn to read for pleasure. The sharing book is a book they have chosen for you to enjoy together. Please remember that you shouldn't expect them to read this on their own. Read it to or with them. Discuss the pictures, enjoy the story, predict what might happen next, use different voices for characters, explore the facts in the non-fiction books. The main thing is you have fun together!
For more information about your child's phonics, please follow the link:
https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/
Maths
In Autumn 1, your child will learn to compare and order numbers from 1 to 100. They will recognise the place value of two-digit numbers, and will be able to use this to solve problems. They will also make more use of number lines and will be able to use less than (<), more than (>), and equals (=) symbols.
Use the websites below to support learning.
- Revise your number bonds, times-tables, doubles and halves:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- Addition and subtraction number fact families (0-100)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families
- Pick a skill you want to go practise: https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-2
Geography
We begun our learning by discussing what makes a home and recapped our Y1 learning on where we live. We have been studying aerial maps of Riddlesden and identified places we are familiar with. We then explored a giant map of the UK and found places some of us had visited in the holidays.
Plop, our owl from The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark, was lost! We found him in our playground. He needed our help to get back to his family. We learnt how to use locational language to help him find his way back home.
Enrichment
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Science
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