This week we had a new boy join Year 2. He arrived in an envelope and he is completely Flat! His name of course is Flat Stanley and he is the character from the book we have started reading - Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. He was sent to us by Mr and Mrs Lambchop (his parents) and he will be staying with us for Term 3 for adventures at BISP.
The children have started to make their own Flat Stanley's to also send on adventures to Canada, England and Australia. They have been busy writing letters to send along with the Stanley's. We are looking forward to receiving some Flat Stanley's from children in Canada, England and Australia to look after.
Flat Stanley will be our focus in Literacy this term. We will be writing letters, re-telling stories, writing summaries, describing characters and writing our very own stories about Stanley.
We started our week with some other visitors - The Upstandables and their friend Bystandable!
Bystandable has joined the children and together they are learning how to become an Upstandable. To do this they have to display upstanding behaviour. This means they should follow the code:
If you are NOT part of the solution,
You ARE part of the problem!
The children helped Bystandable by acting out different ways to be upstanding.
We are encouraging the children to not be bystanders and watch problems but to step in and solve them. All through Term 3 the children will be recording their upstanding behaviour and hopefully they will all earn their red Upstandable masks.
In Maths this term we are focusing on telling the time, taking away, solving written problems and learning about 2D and 3D shapes. Many of our Maths activities will take place through teamwork, in small teams across all 3 classes. This week the children worked together to solve some measurement problems.
You can support your child at home by asking them to read the time at different times during the day. We will be learning digital times, e.g. '9:40' and analogue times, e.g. 'twenty to 10'.
Next Week... we have three events:
On Monday there is a meeting for parents in 2JS room at 2:00pm for parents to learn about our Flat Stanley exchange and how to use the EasyBloggerJunior App on the ipads to blog about Flat Stanley's adventures.
Wednesday is Dress Up as a character Day. Children should choose a character from a book and come to school dressed as them. We encourage children to also bring along the book which their character is from. Please can children come to school wearing their costumes but bring their PE kits and sports shoes in their bags so that they can change for PE in the afternoon.
Wednesday and Thursday are Big Book Swap Days. A great chance to get some new books!
