Our topic this term is a really exciting one that will have a Geography focus.  Throughout the term we will be naming and recognising continents, countries and oceans of the world and will have a particular focus on the Arctic and the Antarctic. We will also be exploring habitats (with a particular focus on Polar regions), different animals such as polar bears and Arctic foxes and how they have adapted to live in such cold places. Further work will involve us thinking about historical individuals like Ernest Shackleton, Scott of the Antarctic and we are planning a WOW day learning about explorers. What a great term we have planned! 

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Homework Tasks and Expectations:

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Reading

Please continue to read with your children as much as possible. We recommend short daily reading opportunities and regularly rereading familiar books. We do expect children re-reading the same book three times per week to help to build fluency and develop sight reading skills. It is also important to remember to ask simple questions as you go as this will help children's comprehension. These could be about what has just happened, how a character is feeling, why they choose to do something or what might happen next. It is also important to discuss new vocabulary with children. 

In Year 1, children will receive word bags and these will be updated as new words and sounds have been introduced. Please revisit these with your children regularly.

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Phonics

If your child finds phonics difficult, it is really important that they regularly recap the learnt phonemes from their phonic sessions in school (these will be shared on a regular basis). This helps children overlearn the phonemes and supports them in recognising the phoneme as graphemes which not only supports fluency in reading but is really important for writing too.

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Homework Tasks:

To support your children's learning we have revised the way we set homework. You will see in the documents linked above here here indicate the compulsory expectations as well as provide simple activities that you can do at home to support your child's learning. These are set out as a menu of choice and the idea is that you can choose which task you tackle each week- but of course you can also revisit tasks in different ways if you would like to. There is no expectation that all tasks are completed, these are merely suggested activities that you can do to support your child's learning. As always there will be the suggestion of the topic projects that your child may wish to complete throughout the term linked to our Pole to Pole theme and if families in Year 2 want extension challenges there are also maths questions and reading comprehensions that you are welcome to print. We request that any homework children would like to share with us is done so through photos, videos or audio using the evidence me app. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to your child's class teacher.​

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For Year 2s extension work:

Maths questions:

Maths Challenge 1

Maths Challenge 2

Maths Challenge 3

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English comprehensions

Reading comprehension 1

Reading comprehension 2

Reading comprehension 3

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Useful Websites & Apps

 

Websites for additional learning opportunities:​​

Below is a list of useful websites that can support you and your family during this time:​

• Espresso Education

      username: student5731                        

      password: paulton​

• BBC Bitesize  

• Oak Academy 

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Websites that offer interactive games:

• ICT Games (Maths and English Games)

• Topmarks (Online Games)

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Websites for Reading Support:

• Oxford Owls (Online Reading Books)

      Children have individual log ins and passwords

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Useful Youtube Channels:

• Letters and Sounds Phonic Videos (Youtube Channel)

• Cosmic Kids Yoga (YouTube Channel) 

• Maddie Moate (Super Science Learning Videos and Opportunities)

 

Apps:

These are useful apps that we have used in school which we encourage you to use as required at home. Some of these are free but will need you to make an account whilst others are paid apps.

• Teach your monster to read

• Hairy Letters

• Scratch Junior

• Tux Paint

• Beebot

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If you discover something really useful that you think others might enjoy, please share with us so that we can share the links and information with our school community. 

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