Devon

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.

This week in Devon 2

This week we have been consolidating our learning about position and direction and fractions. The children have been able to recall this learning from earlier in the term well. 

In English we have completed our beautiful book 'Leaf' and the children have enjoyed thinking about the implications of climate change in reference to this lovely text. They have also noticed the themes of kindness and compassion and it has been heart-warming to hear them talk about the actions of the animals in the story in this way. 

In history we are exploring Royal  residences, including Buckingham Palace, Osborne House and the Tower of London. On Thursday 18th we will be making our own Royal Residences in class. Thank you to those who have already brought some boxes in named bags, please bring anymore that you have tomorrow. Royal Residences will come home at the end of the week or on Monday if we are waiting for paint to dry! 

On a side note to parents: 

I have had a couple parents ask about children’s reading books, the children are asked and often reminded: when they finish a book, bring it back in and take another from the reading corner. 

If the children have completed a quiz on their book at home, they can pop it back and grab another and if not they can place it in the basket, grab another book from the reading corner and either Miss Lewis or Miss Owen will give them an iPad at a convenient time to complete the quiz. 

Dependent on what reading level the children are and how often they read, the children will bring these back at different times. We regularly remind the children but please if they have not brought one home for a while, inform either Miss Lewis or Miss Owen and we will ensure they are taking one home regularly. 

Also if you need another accelerated reader / boom reader / TT rockstars login, please don’t hesitate to ask! 

Show and Tell: 

We kindly ask that children only bring in show and tell that is relevant to what they are learning about in school. This way they can delve deeper into the topics we are learning about, sharing things they have learnt at home and/or bring in interesting artefacts. Show and tell will take place on a Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child brings in show and tell only on these days and that they know they are to be left in their school bags until the end of the day, to avoid them being lost or broken. 

No toys please. 

A week in Devon 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.

Maths:

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.

Spellings: 

Please see below the spellings per group.