Cumbria

Dear Children 

Teachers have chosen a theme from your key text for Term 1 for you to explore over the summer. This is an opportunity for you to be creative and widen your knowledge about our wonderful world so you can use your new knowledge throughout Term 1 to support yours and your classmates learning. Your task is to create a knowledge organiser to use in class. Think about the learning you did in class around using pictures and words to help us remember information. If you want to create anything in addition to your knowledge organiser, or bring photos, artwork etc. which link to your theme, your new teachers would be delighted! We will be using and displaying your work throughout the term.

Please bring your learning into school on Tuesday 3rd September to share with your new teacher and classmates.

Cumbria Class Update 10/07/24:

This week in Cumbria 2 the children have continued to show their enthusiasm for their learning. 

In our English lessons, we concluded our exploration of the term text 'Leaf' by Sandra Dieckmann. The children thoroughly enjoyed the book's conclusion, and we engaged in a whole class discussion to review the themes. The children used conjunctions to add reasoning to support their views on the book. Next,  we outlined a narrative plan in preparation for rewriting the story of 'Leaf' next week. 

Within our Maths sessions, the focus has been on descriptive language for turns, with an introduction to the terms clockwise and anticlockwise. Practical exercises involved tracing shapes to illustrate quarter, half, and full turns, enabling the children to distinguish between clockwise and anticlockwise movements effectively.

In Reading we have been exploring how characters are feeling and what they are thinking and how these two things can be shown within a text and its illustrations. The children worked like detectives with the text to find key words that gave us clues on how the characters are feeling. 

Next week, we are going to be creating royal residences using the knowledge we have learned from our topic of Magnificent Monarchs in History. It would be very helpful if any cardboard boxes came to school to help us create these castles and palaces. Thank you. 

A typical week in Cumbria 2: 

Home Learning: 

Reading

Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on https://www.boomreader.co.uk/parents

• 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 17th July.
 

Miss Bryant's Group 

because

pretty

improve

would

should 

could

everybody

climb

sugar

clothes

Miss Owen/ Miss Lewis' Group

Enjoyment

Treatment

Amazement

Attachment

Employment

Payment

Replacement

Development

Movement

Measurement

Miss Bryan's Group

enjoy

enjoyment

treat

treatment

amaze

amazement

agree

agreement

replace

replacement

Mrs Hughes' Group

this 

put 

them 

there 

asked  

could

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.