Welcome to Grasshoppers!  

I hope you have all had a wonderful summer break and enjoyed spending time with your families.

Hopefully, you all feel refreshed and ready for the new school year ahead!

Our topic for the Autumn term is SUPERHEROES!

Click on the link below to have a look at what the children will be learning.

Autumn Term Overview – Superheroes

Please find below some information about the ‘Grasshoppers’.

Monday – Thursday, the class is taught by Mrs Morris. On a Friday, the class is taught by Mrs Cains.

Grasshoppers will be supported by Mrs Markall (Mon – Weds) and Miss Horton (Mon – Fri)

This year, we have 16 Year 2 children and 14 Year 1 children.

PE Days

Monday: Gymnastics & Dance (Indoor PE kit)

Friday: Games (Outdoor PE kit – Tracksuit bottoms and a hoodie can be worn as the weather becomes cooler. These need to be plain black or navy, not pink and sparkly!)

Water bottles

Please can water bottles be plastic, not metal and have non spill spouts.

Bags and Coats

The children will need one bag for their belongings which will be placed in the cloakroom at the start of the day. They will bring their reading book and water bottle into the classroom only. There will be a box outside the classroom for lunchboxes to be stored.

Children must bring a warm, waterproof coat every day. They will be going outside at playtime whatever the weather.

Please ensure that all belongings are named, especially school jumpers, cardigans, coats and bags.

Trinkets and toys

Please can you ensure that the children do not bring into school small soft toys, trinkets or other small toys from home. The children are very welcome to bring in books, photographs or work they have done at home that is relevant to our topic in school.

Reading

The children will be expected to read regularly throughout the week. If the children have read and had their reading record signed by an adult at home or if they have finished their book and need a new one, they can put it into the ‘blue box’ in the classroom.

In the back of their reading record they will have a slip of card to track how many times they have read at home. Numbers will be crossed off each time they have their reading record signed.

Homework

Homework is reading, learning the spellings for their year groups and learning their times tables. To support them to do this they will have access to ‘Spelling Shed’, ‘Numbots’ and ‘TimesTable Rock Stars’.

I will give the children log in details for these and put more detailed information about spellings and times tables on the class page, at the beginning of term.

(You can also find our school ‘Homework Policy’ on the school website.)

Please look out for regular updates on the Grasshoppers page of the school website. Here you will find reminders, photographs and information about the curriculum we follow in class.

If you ever have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me by email, send a note or arrange a telephone call/ appointment via the school office.

Our class email address, which you can contact me directly on, is: grasshoppers@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk

New children to the Grasshoppers class – If your child is joining our class as a Year 1, please get in touch if there is anything in addition to the information above that you would like to know or if you feel there is anything you think would be helpful for me to know, before the children return on Thursday.

I hope you all enjoy the last few days of the summer break. I’m really looking forward to seeing you all and starting our exciting topic!

Class 2 have finished off their work on ‘Farming’ by designing their own farms. The children planned what they wanted on their farm and made a rough design on A4. They then transferred this onto larger paper and made labels and a sign with the name of their farm on it.

As part of our work on ‘Plants’, Class 2 have been thinking about the different parts of a plant that we can eat. The root, stem, leaf, seed, flower and fruit. The children tasted 10 different examples.

Welcome back Class 2!

I hope you and your families have had a lovely Easter break and enjoyed being able to do more during the second week. We have had some welcome sunshine so hope you have enjoyed being outdoors.

Please find below our Summer Term Curriculum Overview.

Summer Term Overview

Please continue to use our class email address to get in touch if you should have any questions or messages regarding your child. class2@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk

Many thanks

Class 2 have made some Easter chocolate nests and enjoyed them this afternoon as a treat.

We have had a lovely afternoon finishing our Easter cards and doing Easter crafts.

I hope you all have an enjoyable Easter weekend.

There have been some very nice story maps of Paddington and Winnie the Pooh on their London adventure.

Archie has been reading his Grandma’s Winnie the Pooh book.

Sam, Zac and Joel have made a sticky marmalade loaf.

It looks scrumptious, well done boys!

Here is Penny’s marmalade loaf. Paddington and his little friends had already eaten half of it before Penny’s mum could take a photograph.

It must be good!

Isabelle has also made a sticky marmalade loaf and it looks delicious!

Well done everyone!

Good morning Class 2,

Today is World Book Day so you have lots of different activities to choose from.

If you do something to celebrate the day, whether it’s dressing up as a character or showing us your favourite book, please send a photograph to me and I will pass it onto Miss Greenan to go on the school website.

Home Learning – Daily Activities 4.3.21.docx

Design a book cover

Book cover

Book Review

Book review sheet

Word searches

World-book-day-word-search 1

World-book-day-word-search 2

Book mark

World-book-day-design-a-bookmark

The Masked Reader

The Masked Reader ppt

Maths

The Mystery of the Missing Story End

The Mystery of the Missing Story End

Roald Dahl Maths Challenge Cards

Roald-Dahl-maths-challenge-cards

Reading

Name that Story Game

Name-that-story-storytelling-game

Reading Comprehensions

World Book Day Reading Comprehension

Activities

Design a mask

Design a character mask

World Book Day Top 5

World-Book-Day-Top-5

Make a mini book

8-Page-Mini-Book-Template

Draw with these famous illustrators.

Make a book hedgehog

Good morning Class 2,

I hope you all enjoyed doing some of the Julia Donaldson activities yesterday.

Today we are looking at another bear, Winnie the Pooh! Have a lovely day.

Home Learning – Daily Activities 3.3.21.docx

Winnie the Pooh PowerPoint – Winnie the Pooh ppt

Listen to Winnie the Pooh and the Royal Birthday

Have a look behind the scenes of the story.

Winnie the Pooh Story Map

Click on the map to make it larger.

Maths

Year 1 – Tens and ones

Year 1 Tens and ones

Year 2 – Multiplication and Division Recap

Year-2-Multiplication

Year-2-Division

SMART Learning Behaviours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoWLgWCcpWo

Rules for a happy classroom

Baking – Sticky orange marmalade loaf cake

Good Morning Class 2,

I hope you have had a good start to the week and that you enjoyed the Paddington Bear activities yesterday.

Home Learning – Daily Activities 2.3.21.docx

Today’s author is Julia Donaldson

Book Websites

The Gruffalo – https://www.gruffalo.com/activities/activities

Stickman – https://stickmanofficial.com/activities/

Room on the Broom – https://roomonthebroom.com/activities/

Television Adaptations  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/xpYGG9lgXlsny9s2czZnd4/julia-donaldson-adaptations

English – A Squash and a Squeeze

Squash and a Sqeeze activities – Squash and a Squeeze activities

Maths – Room on a Broom

Can you help the witch who is working on some new spells? She likes to use birds, frogs, ants and spiders. The recipes have to have a certain number of legs altogether.

Magical-maths-spell

Maths work

Year 1 – Counting in 2s

Year 1 – Counting in 2s sheet – Year 1 Count in 2s

Year 2 – Addition and Subtraction – Year-2-Addition-and-Subtraction

SMART Learning Behaviours – A Good Learner is MOTIVATED

Dance & Movement – The Smartest Giant in Town

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/ks1-dance-lets-move-the-smartest-giant-in-town/zkb7rj6

Reading Comprehansion – The Snail and the Whale

The-Snail-and-the-Whale questions

Wildlife in the River Thames

Crafts

Make-a-whale-snail-and-the-whale-activity-sheet

Snail and the Whale colouring

Snail and the Whale colur by number

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/tate-paint

Good morning Class 2,

I hope you all enjoyed the sunshine at the weekend.

Just 1 more week of home learning to go. I hope you are all looking forward to returning to school next Monday. I am really looking forward to seeing you all!

Home Learning – Daily Activities 1.3.21.docx

World Book Day – Thursday 4th March

https://www.worldbookday.com

Rhyming Words

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvrbsk7

Rhyming ladder – Rhyme ladder template

Word cards to help you choose words to rhyme.

cvc-words

ccvc-and-cvcc-words

Rhyming Game – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4pxxyc/articles/zrgk8xs

Word Wall Rhyming Game – https://wordwall.net/resource/550452/english/rhyming-words

Super Movers – Rhyme with Radzi

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-english-rhyme-with-radzi/zvbm47h

Reading – When you have a spare 10 minutes, have a listen to these lovely audio books

https://www.worldbookday.com/world-of-stories/

English – Paddington Bear

All about Paddington – Paddington Bear ppt

Paddington Bear picture – Paddington at the Palace sheet

Maths – Addition

Year 1

London bus maths frame and addition

Year 2

London bus addition 1.docx

London bus addition 2.docx

Paddington – London

London is the place for me song

Poster template – London tourist poster

Good morning Class 2!

Thank you for the pencil drawings that have been sent of London landmarks.

Here is Teddy’s which I thought you might like to have a look at. Lovely shading!

Home Learning – Daily Activities 25.2.21

Phonics

Yes/No Questions

Phase 3 Yes/No Questions – Phase-3-yesno-question-cards

Phase 4 Yes/No Questions – Phase-4-yesno-question-cards

Phase 5 Yes/No Questions – Phase-5-yesno-question-cards

Spark a Conversation Cards – Spark-a-conversation-prompt-cards

Phase 6 – Expand your vocabulary

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

English

Supermovers starter – Hip Hop Granny

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-english-capital-letters-full-stops/zjmrhbk

Capital letters PowerPoint – Where-Should-Capital-Letters-Go ppt

Capital Letters for Proper Nouns

Capital letters – Proper nouns

Maths

Year 1 – Numbers to 50

Year 1 Numbers-to-50

Year 1 Count-forwards-and-backwards-within-50

Year 2 – Representing numbers to 100

Year 2 Represent-numbers to 100

Reading Comprehension – London

London Stage 1 Comprehension

Brain Training – Connect Four

https://www.helpfulgames.com/subjects/brain-training/connect-four.html

Geography – The River Thames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NRJkmyggPY

SMART Learning Behaviours

Self-Believing

Click on the slide to enlarge

Good morning Class 2!

I hope you are all having a good week so far.

Thank you for the work you have been sending.

It’s great to see that some of you are practising the phonic sounds that you are not yet sure of. Well done!

There was also some super work on number bonds and London landmarks.

Home Learning – Daily Activities 24.2.21

Phonics

Phase 3 Spelling Activities – Phase 3 Spelling Activity

Phase 4 Spelling Activities – Phase 4 Spelling Activity

Phase 5 Spelling Activities – t-l-9310e–phase-5-spelling-activity-pack-editable-version_ver_1

Phase 3 Sounds

Phase 5 Sounds

Alphablocks – https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks

Phase 6 – Match the captions and pictures – Phase-6-pictures-and-captions-matching-activity

English

Year 1 – Unscramble the sentences and write then neatly, remembering a capital letter and a full stop.

Sentence-scramble-activity-sheet

Year 2 – Look through the PowerPoint about adding adjectives to sentences. Have a go at the activitiy on the last slide. Then, complete the sentence work below adding adjectives to describe the nouns.

Adding adjectives ppt

Adjective sentences

Maths

Number bond sheets – Choose the one which you think you need to practise.

Number bonds to 10 – Number Bonds to 10

Number bonds to 20 – Number Bonds to 20

Number bonds to 100 – Year-2-Derive-and-use-related-facts-up-to-100

Ordering Numbers & Missing Numbers

Ordering numbers up to 20 (Cut and stick) – Ordering-numbers-1-to-20

Ordering numbers up to 50 (Cut and stick) – Ordering-numbers-1-to-50

Counting to 50 to get through the maze – Counting-up-to-50-Maze-Activity

Order numbers up to 90 – Place-value-ordering-2-digit-numbers-activity-sheet

Put in the missing number on the 100 square pieces and number lines – Missing-Numbers-Activity to 100

Play Snakes & Ladders – Snakes-and-ladders-board-game

Reading Comprehension

Year 1 – Dairy Farming

Dairy Farming Stage 1 Comprehension

Year 2 – The Frog Prince

The Frog Prince Stage 2 comprehension

Brain training Memory Game – Find the pairs of matching pictures. How many moves will it take you?

https://www.helpfulgames.com/subjects/brain-training/memory.html

Handwriting – Please continue to practise the individual letters or joins that you are not confident with yet.

Letter Animations – How do I form each letter?

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

Number Animations – How do I form each number?

https://teachhandwriting.co.uk/handwriting-numbers-refiners.html

Joining letters – How do I begin to join letters?

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

Art – The artist, Stephen Wiltshire

Panoramic View of London

https://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/360/london/index.html

London Landmark Photographs – London landmark photos

Stephen Wiltshire Website – https://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/