P2

Week Beginning: 5th July 2021

Welcome the last week of P2.

It is a time for mixed emotions as children gain an understanding that they will return to a different room in August. We have had many times looking and experiencing all of the P3 classrooms over the past weeks to give the children some insight into the learning that occurs.

Thank you to all parents who have assisted throughout the year, your support is highly apprecidated.

Reading books will not be sent home during the final week of school.

Key Dates and Information:

Swimming: Tuesday ~ Splash Day
Library: All Library books are to be returned this week
PE: Monday and Wednesday
IPC: Treasure Islands

Literacy

Talk for Writing: Poetry

Children will listen to and develop skills in poetry. Poems will be based on Pirates.

To be able to use rhyming words
To be able to use adjectives
To write an acrostic poem

Phonics:

To be able to use Phase 2 sound knowledge to read and write CVC words.
To be able to read phase 2 sounds and begin to read phase 3 sounds within words.
To be able to read Phase 2 Tricky Words (words that are not decodable)
To begin to read Phase 3 Tricky Words.
To begin to apply Phase 3 sounds when writing.

Phonics BloomOnline Phonics Games For Children

Handwriting

Handwriting:

This term we will be continue to review common letter reversals and ensuring correct direction and starting points for these letters .

We will also be focusing on letter placement when writing on a single line, finger spaces, punctuation and content.

Maths

Children will be learning how to use

a bar model to solve whole unknown problems
a bar model to solve part unknown problems

IPC

Treasure Island Planning for Parent Page 2021 (1).pdf

The image on the left will take you to the unit letter detailing learning targets for the whole unit of Celebrations.

The Unit of Treasure Islands will be looking at trade and trade routes. How pirates used these routes to gain their treasures.

IPC Process of Learning Cycle

This week the children will engage in a Pirate School Entry Point. They will then answer a true and false statement list for their knowledge harvest.

Personal Qualities

Personal Qualities portal

This term P2 will be focusing on:

Reflection: Children will think about their day, how they could improve, what went right, what went wrong and why.

Home Learning

Refer to the Home page to see the IPC article on 'Helping your Child with their Learning'

Daily:

1. Read the home reading book. Talk about the story including the characters and setting. What was your child's favourite part of the story?

2. Practise reading the high frequency words in the back of the home communication book. Once children can read words by sight, they can practise spelling them.

3. Doodle Maths '5 A Day'

Espresso

School has a subscription to 'Espresso', an online resource of educational games, activities and videos. Click on the image to the right to go to the website.

username: student43118

password: panaga

There are a range of activities under the 'Foundation' section of the website which are great for supporting learning at home.

Click on the following to access the phonics videos that we use in class:

Foundation > Literacy > Phonics > Scrap's phonics

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