Message from Miss McKelvey

Dear Class 2,

I hope you are all working hard at home and enjoying time spent with your family.

I have been given a fantastic opportunity to start a new career which unfortunately means I will be leaving Brown Clee School. My last day is today.

It has been a great term working with you. You have been such a wonderful class to work with and I will miss you all!

I will pop into school after this lockdown when I’ll get chance to say a real goodbye.

Keep being the best you can be!

All the best, Miss McKelvey

Home Learning – Friday 15th January

Good morning Class 2!

It’s Friday so Miss Jones has set your home learning for today and she will be responding to your work. I’m sure you will show her what lovely work you can all do.

Home Learning – Daily Activities 15.1.21

Phonics game – Split digraphs

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/5/dragons-den

Handwriting and Spellings

a-e Spelling Activity

i-e Spelling Activity

Maths Worksheets and Recap Game

https://pbskids.org/peg/games/happy-camel

Y1 Y2 Introduce and Recap Weight and Mass

Y1 Y2 Measure Mass

ICT – Word Processing and Typing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

PSHE – What makes a good friend? – Starry Eyed Stan Story

 

What Makes a Good Friend Octopus

PE

Warm Up – Just Dance

 

Teddy Bear Challenge

Happy Birthday Callum!

Class 2 would like to wish Callum a very Happy 6th Birthday for today! He is going to celebrate by going for a lovely, big walk.

Home Learning – Thursday 14th January

Good morning Class 2 and parents,

It has been so nice to see photographs of you and little video clips. I wondered if, over the weekend, you would like to record a short video message to the class and then I will post them next week for you to watch. I’m sure you are missing your friends very much and it would be nice for you to see and hear them.

Learning for today – Daily Activities 14.1.21

Phonics – o-e   e-e   u-e

Split digraph o-e ppt

Split digraph e – e ppt

Split digraph u-e ppt

English – The Spittler

Maths – Multiplication

Year 1 children – Make doubles

 

Year 1 Maths Worksheets – Make-doubles Year 1

Year 2 children – Multiplication sentences using pictures

 

Year 2 Maths Worksheets – Multiplication-sentences-from-pictures Year 2

Handwriting Sheet – q & e

 

Reading

Year 1 children – https://www.starfall.com/h/ltr-classic/?mg=m

Year 2 children – https://pbskids.org/molly/games/dogsled

History – Comparing London in 1666 & 2021

 

 

Home Learning – Wednesday 13th January

Good morning everyone!

Please find the learning for today below.

I hope you all have a lovely day!

I’ve had a go at making my first video.  It only took about 52 takes!

I promise I will get better in front of the camera, I think Lola is better than me.

 

Home Learning – Daily Activities 13.1.21

Phonics Long Vowel Sounds: Split Digraphs

Split digraph a-e ppt

Split digraph i-e ppt

WordWall Game

 

English – The Spittler

Maths -Multiplication

Year 1 – Making Arrays

 

Year 1 Worksheets – Make-arrays Year 1

Year 2 – Multiplication sentences using the x sign

 

Year 2 Worksheets – Multiplication-sentences-using-the-x-symbol Year 2

Handwriting – 

Reading Comprehension – Winter Wonderland

Winter Wonderland Step 1 Starting Reading Skills

Winter Wonderland Step 2 Developing Reading Skills

Message for Miss McKelvey

Home Learning – Tuesday 12th January

Good morning Class 2 and parents,

Please find below the learning for today.

I have created a housepoint sticker as it’s a shame not to keep those going for positive things that you may do. I will keep a note and let you know how many you have collected at half-term. Look out for one in your feedback!

Home Learning – Daily Activities 12.1.21

Phonics – Short Vowel Sounds

 

Short Vowel Sounds ppt

 

English – Billy and the Minpins: Similes

Similes ppt

Similes Sheet

Maths – Adding Equal Groups

 

Year 1 children – Maths Worksheet – Add Equal Groups Year 1

Year 2 children – Maths Worksheet – Add Equal Groups Year 2

 

Handwriting

Reading – The Strange Beast

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home

History – The Great Fire of London

Click on slide for a clearer view.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-was-london-like-at-the-time-of-the-fire-6ru64c?step=2&activity=video

 

 

Home Learning – Monday 11th January

Good morning Class 2 and parents,

I hope you have all had a relaxing weekend and are ready for week 2!

Please don’t forget in get in touch if you have any questions at all about any aspects of the home learning this week.

Today’s Learning – Daily Activities 11.1.21

Phonics/Spelling – Vowels & Consonants

 

Vowels ppt Twinkl

Vowels and Consonants Activity

English – Billy & the Minpins: Adjectives

Adjectives ppt twinkl

Billy and the Minpins – Adjectives

Maths – Multiplication: Equal Groups

 

Make equal Groups ppt

Equal groups

Reading

 

Handwriting

 

https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-refiners-choice-3.html

https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/continuous-cursive-refiners-non-scheme-letters.html

You will see on the handwriting website that you can print off handwriting sheets if you wish to.

Handwriting Sheet 1 – Handwriting Worksheets Week 2

PE – Dance Warm Up

 

PE – Let’s Dance Programme

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b03g6v9y

RE – Introduction to Buddhism

Introduction to Buddhism

 

 

BBC Lockdown Learning – TV, iplayer & Online

You may have seen this already but the BBC are providing curriculum-based TV programmes which will run alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources online. They begin tomorrow morning.

Please click on the link below for more information.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55591821

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p093cv85

Click on slide for a clearer view.

 

Oxford Owl eBooks

Reading Books

Reading is so important and we try to encourage the children to read every day. I’m sure you have lots of books at home that the children can read and have read to them, but in addition to this you could use the Oxford Owl Free eBook library to access reading books which are colour banded, as they are in school.

The log in details for the class account are:

Username : class2brownclee

Password: dog123

To access the books please click on the link below, click ‘log in’ in the top left hand corner and enter the details above.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page

Don’t worry if it says ‘We’re sorry’ Users are experiencing issues – I have tried it and it does work.

Click on the 3 slides for a clearer view

The storyteller videos below are also nice for the children to listen to:

Oxford Owl Storyteller Videos

Unforgettable Dr. Seuss Quotes | PracticingNormal | Reading quotes, Dr seuss reading quotes, Dr seuss quotes

Home Learning – Friday 8th January

Good morning Class 2 and parents,

As I said yesterday, Miss Jones will be responding to your work today but I will still be looking at all your lovely work too.

I hope you have a good day and some of you might get some snow, if you haven’t already.

Have a great weekend!

Today’s Learning

Daily Activities 8.1.21

WORD Documents needed:

Estimate and Compare Weight

PowerPoints Needed:

Starry Eyed Stan Friendship

Starry Eyed Stan Story

Billy and the Minpins book

Some of you have said that you are going to buy the book that we will be working on, Billy and the Minpins by Roald Dahl. If you are thinking about ordering it, Maisie’s mum let me know that you can get it on Amazon for £3.99 (Kindle Edition) or on the ‘Books4us’ website, it is £3.99 for the paperback.

Please don’t feel like you have to get a copy, as I will post each chapter as a video as we work through the book.

Billy and the Minpins: By Roald Dahl (Author), Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

New teacher for Fridays

I am pleased to welcome Miss Jones to Class 2. Miss Jones was looking forward to meeting you all this week but of course she can’t in person now but she will be teaching you on a Friday when we all return to school. Miss Jones will setting work for you on a Friday and she will also respond to the work sent during the day from our class email address. I’m sure you will all give her a warm welcome when you get to see her!

Home Learning – Thursday 7th January

Good morning Class 2! I hope you enjoyed your first day of home learning yesterday and I hope it went ok for parents too!

Thank you very much for all the brilliant work that was sent yesterday. I was so pleased with your efforts. Here’s today’s work and I hope you have a good day.

Daily Activities 7.1.21

WORD/PDF documents

Year 1 Counting-in-2s–5s-and-10

Year 2 Counting-in-2s–3s-5s-and- 10s

Capital letters

 

 

 

 

Home Learning – Wednesday 6th January

Good morning Class 2 and parents,

I hope you are all very well. I’m very sorry Class 2 that we can not begin the Spring term in school together as normal but we will keep positive and do our best online! We will still cover all the topics that we had planned and I’m sure you will enjoy learning about them.

Please find below an overview of the curriculum we will be covering this term.

Curriculum Overview Spring Term

Below is the timetable that we would follow in school which we will try to stick to from next week. It may help the children to look at the timetable to see what subjects they will have each day.

Timetable Class 2 2020-21

Daily Learning

I will send an email each morning to you by 9.00am with a link to the class page which will contain the learning for the day. Please could I kindly request that, if possible, you acknowledge the email by 9.30am to confirm that you have seen the work that has been set for the day.

Please email work to me in any format. It could be a photograph of work that has been done on paper or in a notebook or it could be a screen shot which has then been edited. (This might be useful for some of the maths work set.)

Work can be sent to me throughout the day and I will respond with feedback as soon as possible. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any problems with any aspects of the work or indeed any other issues concerning your child’s welfare, during this difficult time, that we could help with.

You can contact me at class2@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk

Many thanks,

Mrs Nicky Morris

Today’s Learning

Daily Activities 6.1.21

WORD Documents needed:

Billy and the Minpins

Counting forwards and backwards to 100 grid

Counting in 10s straw bundles

Counting 10s

Map UK countries cities

Map UK flags

PowerPoints needed:

New Year Resolutions 2021

UK ppt

 

 

Merry Christmas!

I hope you enjoyed your last day Class 2.

Merry Christmas to all your families. I hope you all have a lovely time together.

See you in January for a new term!

Water bottles

Please could I ask that the water bottles the children bring into class, after Christmas, are plastic bottles that have a non-spill spout. Some children have been bringing in large, metal, flask like bottles with lids that come off completely. This has meant some very large puddles and everyone jumping when they bang onto the table!

Many thanks.

 

PE Kits tomorrow

Good evening,

Just to confirm that children will need their PE kits, as usual, tomorrow. We did a little bit extra on Wednesday as we were rehearsing our nativity on Monday and so didn’t have much time left for PE.
Many thanks.

Medieval Banners

Class 2 have made some lovely medieval banners. They designed them to go in ‘The Great Hall’ of a castle, ready for a royal banquet.

Well done Class 2, they look great in the classroom!

Money Games

Next week in maths, we will be exploring ‘Money’. I have shown the children the two games/resources below which they might find useful.

We haven’t been using coins and notes so much recently but if you still have some at home please could the children have a look at them.

 https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/coinCalculator/index.html

Phonics – Split Vowel Digraphs

This week, in our phonic sessions we will be learning/revising split vowel digraphs. Please have a look at the resources below if you feel like you need some extra practise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7faYbILI1s&t=68s

 

a-e quick read ppt

i-e quick read ppt

o-e quick read ppt

e-e quick read ppt

u-e quick read ppt

a-e workbook

i-e workbook

o-e workbook

e-e workbook

u-e workbook

 

Class 2 Topic work and writing

This term, Class 2 have been doing some great topic work on Castles and Knights. They have also been working hard on their writing. They have written letters to the character of the dragon based on the book, ‘The Paper-bag Princess’. They are currently planning their own version of the story,  ‘Into the Forest’ by Anthony Browne.


Fact Families Game

In Maths, we have been using 3 related numbers to create a fact family. Please could the children have a go at the game below. Start with numbers up to 10 and if they are feeling confident they can move onto 20, 50 or 100.
Google – ‘Topmarks number fact families game’

Thank you

Reading Cards

Good morning,

I hope you are all very well.

In your child’s reading record you will find a new reading card stapled into the cover. We have used these before in Class 2 and we find that they can motivate the children that are a little reluctant to read at home and reward those who do read at home.
If they have read at home and it’s been recorded in their record by an adult, when they put their book in the blue box they will get a number crossed off. For every ten reads they will receive a house point. When their reading card is full it will be saved and replaced.

It has worked well in the past and the children enjoy receiving house points for their efforts.

Parents Afternoon Times

If you have returned the Parents Afternoon form to request a time for a telephone appointment, your child will be bringing home a slip today with your time slot.
I look forward to speaking to you next week.

Many thanks,

Mrs N. Morris

Words and Sounds Pack

Good afternoon,

Yesterday, your child brought home a plastic wallet containing the ‘common exception words’ and phonic sounds that they need to learn, over time.

Please find below some additional resources to help support them with these. You will also find some resources on the previous post.

Please get in touch if you do not have access to a printer but would like any of the sheets sent home.

Many thanks,

Mrs Morris

For more videos to help with phonics click on the link below.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/oxford-owl-videos/phonics-videos/

phase-3-spelling-activity-pack

phase-5-spelling-activity-pack

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds

The link below will take you to ‘Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check’ with all the common exception words on. They are labelled on here as ‘Tricky words’.

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/lcwc/index.html

Phonics and Spelling

Please find below some resources that will support your child with their phonics and spelling.

Phase 3 Sounds Powerpoint – Phase 3 Powerpoint

Phase 3 Sound Mat

Phase 4 Blends Powerpoint – Phase 4 Blends Powerpoint

Phase_4_Sound_Mats

Phase 5 Sounds Powerpoint – Phase 5 Powerpoint

Phase_5_Sound_Mat

Spelling Frame and Spell Zone has games that will help your child practise spelling words containing each sound.

https://spellingframe.co.uk/

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/lists-curriculum.cfm

Spooky Spellings Game http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html

Karate Cats English – Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling game

Click to play the game

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zdp4pg8

 

 

 

 

Science Investigation

In Science, Class 2 have been exploring materials. We carried out an investigation to test the absorbency of seven different materials.

Before testing the materials we predicted what the outcome would be.
We dipped the materials in water, coloured with blue paint so we could see the liquid soaking into each material.

To make sure it was a ‘fair test’ we made each piece of material the same size and dipped them into the liquid at the same time, then waited 30 seconds.

Paul Klee Art Display

Class 2 have completed their art work producing their version of ‘Castle and Sun’ and ‘Cat and Bird’ by the artist Paul Klee.

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