What a fabulous week we’ve had!

Reading:

World Book Day was on Thursday and we enjoyed sharing fun stories together, doing wordsearchs, making page buddies for our book marks. We really enjoyed going on a book scavenger hunt where we searched for characters or settings in different books.

Play the job mixing game – read the description then change the characters outfit to fit. https://1c7951e0f713f82c10d3-9c5e6fbd2c9d828eb37b6bf0399bddd6.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/job-mixer/index.html 

Spelling: 

Suffixes quiz: https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/english/suffixes/ 

-ed suffix video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msJIy_f_Xsw&ab_channel=Nessy 

-ed suffix quiz: https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks1/english-spelling/year-2-changing-the-ending-to-ed/ 

-er suffix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FLMPzvEx30&ab_channel=AaronCarlson 

-er suffix quiz: https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks1/english-spelling/year-2-changing-the-ending-to-er/ 

Literacy:

We have been looking at apostrophes this week. We know they have two uses; one is to show belonging e.g. Tom’s cat, the other is to replace letters in a contraction e.g. do not = don’t.

Apostrophes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zpxhm39

Apostrophe smash: https://wordwall.net/resource/28353528/apostrophe-for-contractions

Maths:

We have been looking at subtraction this week. We know that we can solve subtraction calculations with take-away, but we can also ‘find the difference between’ the numbers.

Subtraction alien splat: https://www.arcademics.com/games/mission

Design and Technology:

We have been practising our sewing skills this week. It has been a HUGE challenge but we persevered brilliantly! We have been practising threading a needle, and then two different types of stitches – running stitch or over stitch.

Threading a needle: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=threading+a+needle

Running stitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1-B01FB56s&ab_channel=RedTedArt

Over stitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmD9vpo5Fso&ab_channel=RedTedArt

Science:

We are looking at materials and their properties. This week we’ve enjoyed discussing properties and what the material is best used for e.g. could glass make a suitable chair?

Properties of materials video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCNade4GFpY&ab_channel=ExplorePlanetEnglish 

Material testing game: https://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/materialproperties.html