Southborough Church of England Primary School
Southborough Church of England Primary School
This week in Devon 2
Wow, what a fantastic week!
On Thursday, we enjoyed coming in wearing either pyjamas or dressed as our favourite character to celebrate world book day! We made stickers of our favourite books, we went ‘book tasting’ exploring a variety of books on offer during our Discovery Centre time and we had an exciting opportunity to share and read a book with year 5!
In maths we have moved on to learning about mass. We have compared the mass of different objects and used the language lighter and heavier and begun to read scales to measure in grams and kilograms. It would be lovely if you could encourage your child to look at reading scales while cooking and talk about the comparative weights of ingredients! We then moved on to explore the difference between volume and capacity.
In English this week the children have wrote some beautiful letters, imagining they were star bird embarking on his perilous journey! The children have enjoyed describing the different settings of the jungle, the ocean and the mountain top and have successfully written in the first person. We are so proud of all the hard work the children are putting into their writing, in particular their handwriting! Keep up the great effort Devon!
This week is British Science Week and we have been investigating ‘Time’. We enjoyed making sand timers and experimenting with calibrating them to time one minute! We will be using them to investigate time further later this week.
Lastly, just a reminder about positive noticing! To support our ‘nurture’ principle this term of well-being (taking care of ourselves and others), we would like to continue our positive noticing! For example: I noticed this week Devon have worked so hard on their handwriting. Have you notice something positive this week ? Don’t be afraid to tell that person just how brilliant they are ❤️
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:
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
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Morning | RWI Maths Break Worship Spelling | English Worship Reading Maths | RWI Spelling test Worship Break Maths Reading | RWI Spelling Worship Reading Maths | RWI Celebration Worship Maths Discovery Centre |
Afternoon | English Geography | Science Computing | Music PHSE PE | Re Geography | PE Art |
Home Learning:
Reading:
Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on Boom reader.
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
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:
The new spelling groups have been working well this week. Please see below the spellings per group. Spelling test will be Wednesday 20th March.
Miss Bryant's Group
jumping
jumped
calling
called
shouting
shouted
buzzing
buzzed
washing
washed
Miss Owen/ Miss Lewis' Group
because
Wild
cold
Plant
Beautiful
People
Parents
Who
Climb
kind
Miss Bryan's Group
many
some
should
come
any
would
there
their
Mrs Hughes' Group
oil
join
soil
spoil
coin
foil
point