Week beginning 4th May

What will we be learning this week?

English:

• Homophones
• Studying the story 'The Tunnel' by the author Anthony Browne.  Have got any stories at home written by Anthony Browne?
• Studying what a story plan for 'The Tunnel' might have looked like
• Planning and writing our own 'Adventure Story' based on 'The Tunnel'
• In our story we are going to try and include:
• Capital letters and full stops
• Adjectives
• Similes
• Spellings: the suffixes '-less' and '-ly'
• Continuing our story time sharing the story: 'The Hen Who Wouldn't Give Up'

Maths:

• Daily 'Flashbacks'
• Revise our work about 'Directions'  Giving someone directions to follow
• Making patterns
• Making shape sequences with 2D shapes
• Making shape patterns with 3D shapes
• TTRockstars Battle: who is going to win?  Year 2 or Miss Hall?  The battle finishes on Friday 8th May!

IPC:

• Have you beans started to grow that we planted last week?
• Different parts of a plant: seed, seedling, root, stem, leaves, flower, fruit, tendril, shoot, petal, stigma, stamen, pollen
• Creating a picture to show the different parts of a plant.  Can you use resources you have at home to help you?  Cupcake cases make good flowers and string makes great roots!
• Cutting up fruit to find some seeds.  Can you plant them and help them grow?

Special events this week:

• It's V.E. day on Friday.  There is a V.E. Day folder of activities in your folder of work this week.  Feel free to use as many or as few of these as you wish.  You might like to have a look at them during some Enrichment time
• Year 2 Google Class Meet: Monday 4th May at 3pm