Devon

This week in Devon 2

Term 5 Week 1

A great start back into Term 5 Devon, Well done! 

This week the children have been working really hard to understand fractions of shapes and quantities. We have explored finding a half, a quarter and a third and related this to dividing by 2, 4 and 3. The children have really applied themselves and begun to see the relationship between fractions and division. If you would like to refresh your memory on fractions here is a link to click with your parent: Fun Fractions!

We are all enjoying reading 'The Iron Man' and the children have written some fantastic descriptions using similes, comparing a likeness and expanded noun phrases ( adjective, adjective noun) to describe the Iron Man. The children have been making adventurous predictions about what is still to come in the story.  The children have enjoyed looking at some other robots and materials that the Iron Man could be made from. 

In PE, we are learning Cricket with Mr Levett, children how to hold a cricket bat correctly and use it to control and hit a ball to a target.

Our science topic this term has really sparked the children's interest and we all enjoyed a discussion and a sorting activity about invertebrates. We were surprised by some of the things we learned about them, do ask your children to share the facts that we found interesting about the minibeasts and invertebrates that we investigated. 

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 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.

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. The next Spelling test will be Wednesday 1st 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