๐Ÿฏ Tiger Day! ๐Ÿฏ

๐Ÿฏ Tiger Day! ๐Ÿฏ We have all had such a lovely day celebrating being tigers! The children produced some lovely tiger art and enjoyed lots of team building games – the parachute was a firm favourite! Thank you all for all your effort, the children all looked fantastic and loved being dressed up! ๐Ÿงก๐Ÿฏ

Spellings 4.7.25-11.7.25

Year 1

Adding the prefix -un without any change to the root word

unhappy

undo

unload

unfair

unlock

unwrap

unzip

untidy

unwell

unkind

 

Year 2 Spellings

Homophones and conjunctions

night

knight

blue

blew

hole

whole

because

so

that

or

Reading, reading, reading!๐Ÿ“š

We always try to promote reading for pleasure and show the children in class how wonderful books can be. Recently, children have really taken this onboard and are enjoying their reading so much which is lovely to see! Many of the children come in to school in the morning desperate to tell us what has happened in their book and they’ve even started asking if they can read their books during break time! Being able to read for pleasure is a great skill to have and opens up so many new worlds and possibilities! ๐Ÿ“š

Animals and transport ๐Ÿš‚ ๐Ÿš๐Ÿš—

This week we have been learning all about animal groups such as mammals, birds, amphibians, fish and reptiles and thinking about each groupโ€™s characteristics. Weโ€™ve also learned about animal diets and after an animal hunt in forest school, sorted animals into groups depending on if they are a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. We are starting to look at humans, naming different parts of the body and their function. Excitingly, we will be having a school trip linked to this during the last week of term – more info to follow very soon!

In our history last week we looked at how cars have changed since the first motorised cars. This week weโ€™ve looked at how trains have changed over time, learning about George Stephenson and โ€˜the rocketโ€™ steam train and comparing it to the modern โ€˜bulletโ€™ train! ๐Ÿš‚ ๐Ÿš๐Ÿš—

Spellings week 27.6.25-4.7.25

Year 1

Adding s and es to words

cats

dogs

spends

rocks

schools

friends

thanks

catches

pushes

fetches

 

Year 2

Homophones and near homophones

be

bee

quite

quiet

bare

bear

one

won

son

sun

Spellings 20.6.25 – 27.6.25

Year 1

Consonant spelling ‘ph’ and ‘wh’

dolphin

alphabet

phonics

elephant

when

where

which

wheel

while

white

 

Year 2

Homophones and near homophones

there

their

they’re

here

hear

see

sea

to

too

two

Telling the time

This week weโ€™ve been busy learning to tell the time using an analogue clock. Weโ€™ve practised oโ€™clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. Lots of the children have moved on to telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes and even saying what the time will be in 20 minutes, 25 minutes etc ๐Ÿ˜ƒโฐโŒš๏ธ

Spellings week 13.6.25-20.6.25

Year 1:

Vowel trigraph ‘ear’

dear

hear

beard

near

year

clear

fear

bear

wear

pear

 

Year 2:

Common exception words

any

many

clothes

water

pretty

Christmas

beautiful

busy

poor

kind

 

Types of transport in forest school

Last week we started our new topic all about travel and transport. We discussed the different types of transport that the children knew and which types of transport we use in different situations. The children then designed some different modes of transport using natural materials in forest school ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿš—๐Ÿšด๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธโœˆ๏ธ๐Ÿšข๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿš๐Ÿš€

Spellings week 6.6.25-13.6.25

Year 1 spellings:

The vowel trigraphs ‘air’ and ‘are’

air

fair

pair

hair

chair

bare

dare

care

share

scared

 

Year 2 spellings

Months of the year and time words

November

December

after

past

hour

half

minute

quarter

month

second