🦡 Welcome To Badgers Class Webpage 🦡
Our Class Teacher is Miss Lewis.
Our Learning Support Assistant is Miss Scott.
Badger's Expectations
In Badgers class, we are expected to complete the following homework challenges each week:
Reading: 📖
Read with an adult 5 times during the week (Friday - Friday).
Maths: 🧮
Practise weekly mathletics challenges.
Spellings: ✍
Practise and complete a spelling test (Friday) based on the Year 2 spelling list.
Our PE day is Tuesday afternoon.
Our Library day is Friday.
Autumn Term 🍂
Maths:
Our first unit of work was Place Value where we did a lot of work on partitioning numbers to 100, ordering and comparing numbers as well as counting in 2,s 5,s 10s, and 3's. We used lots of practical resources to support our learning, including place value counters, Dienes and part whole models.
We then moved on to our addition and subtraction unit. We have consolidated our number bonds to 10 and used this knowledge to help us with number bonds to 100. The children have completed many different addition and subtraction problems, including subtracting a 1-digit number from a 2-digit number across a 10.
We spent a few weeks on our shape unit where we looked at different 2D and 3D shapes and explored their properties. We completed lots of practical lessons, such as shape hunts and sorting shapes.
We have just completed our money unit. We spent lots of time looking at all of the different notes and coins and learned how to calculate how much we need and how much change we would have.
Next, we will be moving onto multiplication and division.
English:
We spent the first three weeks of the half-term completing a series of short burst writing based on dragons and other mythical creatures. We explored a range of interesting vocabulary and created some brilliant pieces of writing, as well as a range of poems.
Our first Talk4Writing unit was 'Kassim and the Greedy Dragon'. This text is a warning tale and our unit focused on using description. The children continued to expand their interesting and effective vocabulary and produced their own fantastic warning tales.
We then moved onto our next unit 'How to Trap a Dragon' and this unit focused on writing effective instructions. We spent a lot of time looking at the importance of structuring our instructions in the right order so that the reader doesn't get confused. We explored a range of time conjunctions to introduce the next instruction and to make our writing flow. We then applied everything we learned to write a set of instructions about how to make a car for our DT learning.
We will be moving on to 'Meerkat Mail' in the Spring Term.
Wacky Races:
Our Autumn term topic is Wacky Races and we have started off by exploring human and physical features in Michigan and the UK. We had lots of fun comparing the two places on aerial maps and using photos. We then created our own own road maps for our own wacky races!
We then learnt about Henry Ford in History. We found out what he was best known for and compared the Model T car to the modern Ford Fiesta. We also learnt what an assembly line is we recreated one to show how one of Henry Ford's factories would work.
We completed our Science learning and are exploring different materials. So far we have sorted and grouped different materials, discussed what it means if something is transparent, translucent or opaque and we have been on a walk around the local area conducting a material hunt.
In Art, we looked at a range of collage techniques and explored a range of different materials that we might like to use in our art work. We also shared our knowledge of collages with parents and carers during our Autumn term LOLA.
