Welcome to Class 2V'S Web Page.
We are always busy and have great fun learning together.
My name is Mrs Breaks and I am the class teacher in 2V. My super daily classroom assistant is Mrs Blackman.
We are lucky enough to have regular visits from Miss Fort too.
Parents, if you have any questions or worries, please feel free to see me either before or after school.
P.E.
This takes place on a Thursday. Please make sure that you have all your kit in school, especially if it has been taken home following an after school club.
Remember, you will need a white t-shirt, black shorts and black pumps. These will normally hang in their bag on your coat hook outside our classroom.
Please make sure that all your kit is labelled. This makes it so much easier to find if you misplace it.
Please can all earrings be removed before Thursday's P.E. lesson.
Reading Books
Reading books will be sent home and changed regularly. Some thicker books will take several days to read, but please bring your book to class every day,as we often read in class.
Please remember that when you finish a book, you need to have your Reading Record signed by an adult. This way, we can let you choose a new one straight away.
Homework
Spelling lists will be sent home on Fridays to learn. These words will be tested the following Friday.
DoodleMaths will continue this year, so remember to log on and build up a streak! Send me a message on DoodleMaths to ask me a question, or let me know how you are doing.
Please remember to complete your written homework and bring it back to earn a sticker.
Don't forget, you can keep up to date with what the children in school have been getting up to by looking out for our Weekly Newsletter.
Also, please check your child's bag regularly for other letters.
We will be learning lots this term, but these targets are areas which you could be working on at home throughout the Autumn. This will help you when we are practising these skills in class.
Reading Targets:
To use our Phonics to help us read new words.
To improve our reading fluency.
To discuss and answer questions about what we have read.
Writing Targets:
To include capital letters and full stops in our sentences.
To choose interesting words for our sentences.
To add conjunctions (joining words) in our sentences.
Numeracy Targets:
To understand Place Value(Tens and Units)
To understand Tens and Units and use them to add and subtract.
To know our 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables.
To know doubles to double 10.
Year Two Activities
Take a look at some of the exciting activities Year Two have got involved with in the past. The children all have great fun whilst they are learning.
-A donkey ride.
-A play on the park.
-Feeding the large animals.
-Feeding and holding the small animals.
-Watching the cows being milked.
-A bouncy tractor ride to the top of the farm.
We have been learning about how farmers on flat land in England grow lots of crops for people to eat. In Science, we observed lots of food plants closely. We learnt that people eat the leaves, roots and fruits of different plants.
During the final week of term, we really enjoyed choosing and preparing lots of salad ingredients to plan and make our own delicious salad. (D.T.) All the salad ingredients had been grown in different places. They smelt and tasted amazing.
The raw white onion wasn't popular, so Corey was pleased to have a huge portion on his plate! The peppers and tomatoes were class favourites.
We have been baby-sitting a small incubator of eggs in our classroom for two weeks and are now proud to announce that three lovely fluffy chicks have joined us in class. We have all had a chance to give one a very gentle cuddle. Now that they are growing quickly, we have given them an opportunity to stretch their legs. We sat in a big circle to keep them safe and it was fun watching them trying to run and fly.
Mr Dunderdale is hoping to arrange permanent accommodation for the chickens here at school!
We thought about what we liked about them, what we disliked and about how each vehicle moved.
Later, we used Mobilo to have a try at building a vehicle with an axle. We really enjoyed this and are looking forward to building our Space Buggies soon.
We designed and built vehicles. We all enjoyed using a hacksaw to saw axles. We had fun decorating our Space Buggies. We found ways to solve tricky 'fixing problems' and enjoyed comparing ideas with our friends. Everyone tested their own vehicle, but enjoyed the 'Race Off' the most to find our Year Two Champions .
We had an interesting week thinking about how we can look after our local environment and the wider World around us. We realised that a lot goes on at our school to save energy and to look after the nature around our school.
We especially enjoyed going outside to plant 30 saplings, which we will keep an eye on throughout the year.
Children in Need Day
Friday 13th November
We had a fun day dressed in our pyjamas and especially enjoyed adding our coppers to the giant Pudsey Bear face we built in the hall. Thank you for all your donations, they helped us to raise over £200 in school altogether.
We had a fantastic time at the Cinema on Tuesday 10th October watching Night at the Museum 3 together. We are writing 'Thank you' letters to Accrington Vue Cinema for the Free Showing. We all agreed that it was an excellent film. Thanks to the grown ups for providing the snacks!
Magic and Mystery Week
We really enjoyed sharing spooky stories and writing our own gruesome spells this week. We even did 'Monster Maths!'Take a look at our frightening costumes.
Autumn Term
We had a really great first term together. The weather was kind to us, so we managed lots of outdoor learning during our topic about 'The Place Where I Live'.
We looked closely at our school to help us draw some detailed pictures. We enjoyed predicting, then hunting for creatures around our school. It was tricky at first using a 'Leaf Key' to identify our trees, but now we are experts and could probably teach some of the grown-ups a thing or two!
With the mild weather, we managed to get out into Padiham to learn more about our home town.
We had a lovely time on our walk along the Greenway to Station Road Park by the Swimming Pool. We noticed lots of old houses, factories and churches on the way. Lots of the class saw their house, or that of a friend/ relative. We spotted new things too. We saw new houses near the park and a new bike track too. Best of all, it was sunny and we were able to play on the park together.