🌟 Year 1/2 Weekly Newsletter – Week 2 🌟
Dear Parents,
It was wonderful to see so many of you at school yesterday. Thank you for joining the curriculum meeting -I hope you found it both informative and helpful.
We’ve had a very busy and exciting Week 2 in Year 1/2! Here’s a little peek into our learning:
🔢 Maths
The children have been working hard and are getting used to our maths rotations. There’s been lots of hands-on learning using manipulatives, and today we even tried out Sumdog, our online maths programme. The children had great fun reviewing the week’s objectives.
Year 1 have been working on:
Representing objects
Recognising numbers as words
Counting on from any number
Finding 1 more
Counting backwards within 10
Year 2 have been working on:
Recognising tens and ones
Using a place value chart
Partitioning numbers to 100
Writing numbers to 100 in words
Flexibly partitioning numbers to 100
✍️ Literacy
In Literacy, we’ve been busy designing our own trolls ready for next week’s writing activity.
Year 1 have been practising capital letters, full stops, finger spaces, and using the connective ‘and’.
Year 2 have been improving their sentences by adding expanded noun phrases to describe Timothy the Troll from our story Troll Swap.
We’re looking forward to reading more of the book next week!
🧠 IPC – Learning About the Brain
This week our IPC focus has been the brain. The children loved creating posters of the different parts and exploring how memory works by playing fun memory games.
We also investigated the cerebellum by doing an experiment: children threw sponges at the glass door while their partners stood behind it, checking if they blinked or flinched! We then tried out some balance and coordination exercises to test if our cerebellums were working well.
We also learned about the amygdala (our “shark alarm”) and how it keeps us safe. Together we drew a large body outline and marked the different stress responses on it.
👉 Next week, we’ll explore the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in more detail to see how they help us with learning and memory.
🧥 A Little Reminder
Please send in a sweater or cardigan for your child to keep in the classroom if you haven’t already. Even though the air conditioning is set to 26°C, a few children still feel chilly at times. Thank you for helping keep everyone comfortable.
It’s been a fantastic week of learning, and I’m so proud of how hard the children are working.
Wishing you all a restful weekend!
Warm regards,
Mrs Sim
