Cumbria

Cumbria Class Update 24/04/24:

Well done Cumbria for your excellent learning and focus this week.

In English, our focus has been on the novel 'Iron Man' by Ted Hughes. This week, the children delved into writing a character description of Iron Man, utilising various literary devices such as similes, adjectives, expanded noun phrases, and adverbs. It was wonderful to see the children expressing their creativity and imagination through words. They were fascinated to discover that Iron Man's head was as big as our classroom and used descriptive words like 'immense' to capture the character.

Our exploration in Science centred around invertebrates and their classification into the six different categories. The children engaged enthusiastically with this topic, expanding their knowledge of the diverse world of living organisms.

In History, our learning journey led us to explore the concept of absolute power and its evolution throughout the history of the monarchs of England. The discussions and activities related to this topic sparked curiosity among the children, prompting them to reflect on the dynamics of power and its implications over time.

In Maths, the focus has been on fractions, with particular attention on understanding 1/3 and the concept of finding the whole. The children have been steadily progressing in their understanding of fractions. We have used shapes, arrays and manipulatives to aid our learning this week.

Thank you for your continued support and involvement in your child's learning.

A typical week in Cumbria 2: 

Home Learning: 

Reading

Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on Boom reader.

• All children who are on RWI will bring home a RWI Reading book each Friday, please return them the following Wednesday. 
• Children in Year 2 also begin to bring home a book from the Discovery Centre which is levelled according to the Accelerated Reader (AR) scheme  https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/accelerated-reader-1/

      These books can be returned and swapped as soon as they are finished. There is also a quiz                    associated with these books https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/year-2-1/

Note: some children will bring home both a RWI Reading book and an AR levelled reading book - please read both with your child.
Both books should be left in their bags so they can read them at school, as well as at home, to enhance their fluency.

Spelling

The new spelling groups have been working well this week. Please see below the spellings per group. Spelling test will be Wednesday 2nd May.

Miss Bryant's Group 

race

ice

cell

city

fancy

face

space

bicycle 

circle

spicy

Miss Owen/ Miss Lewis' Group

again

beautiful

because

father

people

water

everyone 

everybody

pretty

whole

Miss Bryan's Group

key

donkey

chimney

turkey

trolley

jockey

money

hockey

alley

valley

Mrs Hughes' Group

about

shout

out

loud

our

proud

house

round

Please find linked below the list of spellings Year 2 will be practising throughout the year. Strategies to practise spellings can be found on the Oxford Owl website, here.

Multiplication

In Year 2 we are currently practising our 2, 5 and 10 multiplication. Please find a maths game here to help practise multiplication as part of our current multiplication and division unit.  

Times Tables Rockstars/Numbots! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.