Welcome to Willow Class
Willow class is made up of 20 children in year 2 and year 3. Miss Smith is our Teacher and Miss Lovell and Miss Nurcombe are Willow's TAs. Miss Gibbons works as 1:1 TA.
We love and have a positive attitude to our learning and always try our best and work hard.
Our big question this term is Who settled here first? We will be learning about Stone Age to Iron Age. The big themes this term are- Belonging, Civilisation and Migration. The mini enquiry questions we will be answering are- How do we know about the Stone Age? What is important about a load of old bones? What is important about a load of old stones? How does a rock become a fossil? Which place would be better to settle Skara Brae or Cheddar Gorge? What came after the Stone Age?
Our Geography this term will involve learning about physical (cliffs, woodland etc) and human features (houses, town etc). linking to the Stone Age, we will be focusing on Cheddar Gorge and Skara Brae and looking for these features in maps of those areas including aerial maps.
Our first Science topic is Rocks- types of rocks, grouping rocks, soil formation and fossils. This will be followed by Animals Including Humans where we will be learning about nutrition, skeletons and muscles.
English
Writing
We will be using the book ‘The First drawing’ as a focus for our narrative. At the end of the unit we will be planning and writing our own discovery story. The second book we will be using is ‘Dave's cave’. At the end of the unit we will be writing a diary entry. In term 2 we will be using Winter’s child as a focus for our narrative. We will be planning and writing a sequel for springtime. The second book we will be using is HOM- The best of friends, the last of his kind. We will be using this to plan and write a persuasive letter.
Reading
In Reading, children who have not completed the Read, Write Inc (RWI) programme will continue to have daily lessons, which will consist of speed sounds, reading, spelling words using Fred fingers and hold a sentence. Children will then read a RWI story which will involve learning story green words from the book and red words (these are tricky words that cannot be sounded out) and speedy green words. Children will work with partners to take it in turns to read the story and on the final day will have questions to answer about what they have read. This year we will be teaching RWI in sole colour groups across KS1 (Ash and Willow) i.e. a pink group, a blue group etc.
Children who have completed the RWI programme will be doing whole class reading for 30 minutes a day. Throughout the week we will do some reading fluency and focusing on comprehension skills - making sense of what has been read, activating prior knowledge (what we already know that may help us to understand the text), word consciousness (understanding new vocabulary and meanings), predicting (what might happen based on what we already know or have read so far), summarising (main ideas from a paragraph/sequencing the story) and visualising (using pictures with new vocab or using illustrations from the story to gain meaning about the text). We will not focus on all comprehension skills in one lesson. The first text we are reading is Stone Age boy by Satoshi Kitamura.
Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation (SPAG)
We are following the Spelling Shed scheme. Children who have finished RWI scheme will have daily Spelling and handwriting lessons. Grammar and Punctuation will be taught in Writing lessons.
Maths
In Maths our units this term are Place value and Addition and Subtraction
Year 2
Place Value
- count in steps of 2, 3, and 5 from 0, and in 10s from any number, forward and backward
- recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (10s, 1s)
- identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations, including the number line
- compare and order numbers from 0 up to 100; use <, > and = signs
- read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals and in words
- use place value and number facts to solve problems
Addition and Subtraction
- solve problems with addition and subtraction:
- using concrete objects and pictorial representations, including those involving numbers, quantities and measures
- applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods
- recall and use addition and subtraction facts to 20 fluently, and derive and use related facts up to 100
- add and subtract numbers using concrete objects, pictorial representations, and mentally, including:
- a two-digit number and 1s
- a two-digit number and 10s
- 2 two-digit numbers
- adding 3 one-digit numbers
- show that addition of 2 numbers can be done in any order (commutative) and subtraction of 1 number from another cannot
- recognise and use the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction and use this to check calculations and solve missing number problems
Geometry
- identify and describe the properties of 2-D shapes, including the number of sides, and line symmetry in a vertical line
- identify and describe the properties of 3-D shapes, including the number of edges, vertices and faces
- identify 2-D shapes on the surface of 3-D shapes, [for example, a circle on a cylinder and a triangle on a pyramid]
- compare and sort common 2-D and 3-D shapes and everyday objects
Year 3-
Place value
- count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100; find 10 or 100 more or less than a given number
- recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number (100s, 10s, 1s)
- compare and order numbers up to 1,000
- identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
- read and write numbers up to 1,000 in numerals and in words
- solve number problems and practical problems involving these ideas
Addition and Subtraction
- add and subtract numbers mentally, including:
- a three-digit number and 1s
- a three-digit number and 10s
- a three-digit number and 100s
- add and subtract numbers with up to 3 digits, using formal written methods of columnar addition and subtraction
- estimate the answer to a calculation and use inverse operations to check answers
- solve problems, including missing number problems, using number facts, place value, and more complex addition and subtraction
Geometry
- draw 2-D shapes and make
- recognise angles as a property of shape or a description of a turn
- identify right angles, recognise that 2 right angles make a half-turn, 3 make three-quarters of a turn and 4 a complete turn; identify whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle identify horizontal and vertical lines and pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines.
On a Wednesday this term we will be having Somerset Music in to teach Ukulele
Our PE days are on Thursday & Friday each week.
Letters
Our Classroom
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Our Learning
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Home Learning
If you are currently learning at home please use the links below. Make sure you do TTrockstars or topmarks everyday and also make sure you read.
Use TTrockstars to practise times tables. Also practise number bonds and fact families using Topmarks. You can also practise your spelling using Spelling Shed.
Science
English
History