Welcome back Penguins, I hope that you had a lovely Christmas with your families.
The theme for this half term is 'Pirates' The information below will let you and your parents know all about the learning that will take place.
English: The children will be learning through the wonderful story of Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle. They will have opportunities to write descriptions of characters through riddles, invitations, adverts, instructions, persuasive writing and setting descriptions. By the end of the unit the children will have begun to master the use of
Read, Write, Inc: Phonics will take place daily, following the Read, Write, Inc. scheme. These lessons will incorporate learning phonics sounds, reading and spelling. Children when ready will move on to the Reading Comprehension programme.
Maths: The current unit is Multiplication and Division. By the end of the unit the children will have learned to
Science: The children will be learning about Uses of Materials. They will be able to
Geography: The children will be learning about the An Island Home – Comparisons of UK with a Caribbean island
Art: The children will be looking at developing their use of line, shape, space and colour by creating their own pirates in images and clay.
Religion and Worldviews: The focus will be on the portrayal of animals in different religious stories.
Computing: This half term the children will be looking at Programming. By the end of the unit they will be able to:
Music: The children will learn to sing and play a song through the topic Musical Me. By the end of the unit they will be able to
PE will take place on Monday and Friday
Dance
Gymnsatics
Homework
Homework will be changing from this point on as it will all be set on Google Classrooms. Your child will receive a username, password and class code. We will introduce it to the children in class before sending work home in the second week of the term. If there are any issues/difficulties accessing this at home please let me know.
Reading
Reading books will be changed once a week on a Thursday. Now that the children are becoming more fluent in their reading please re-read and discuss events, make predictions, encourage the use of expressions and character voices and check for understanding of inferred meaning as this is very important to aid children's comprehension and understanding from Year 2. Penguin class will change their books every Thursday so please make sure your reading book is in school that day.
Please let me know if you have any comments, questions or queries. I am also available at the class email address penguins@parkgate.cheshire.sch.uk
Mr Simon