Class Teacher (Wed-Fri)

• We are moving onto our information book ’10 Things I can change about the world’. This topic is all about how we can help the environment and our awareness of climate change. We will be looking at what we do to help the environment now, what we can do in the future and how we can encourage others to do the same. We will be making bird feeders out of recyclable materials to sell at our mid-term fundraiser. Please bring in orange juice, Alpro milk cartons or similar for our bird feeder project! We will be making these in the second week.  We are hoping to raise money to donate to the WWF (World Wildlife Fund). As part of this fundraiser, we will always be setting a home learning task of making a toy out of recyclable materials to sell at the fundraiser. What an exciting term we have coming up!
• Our 5 key words of the week that are written throughout the text are:

• We will be starting our fractions topic. We will be looking at halves and quarters in the first week.

• We will be looking at climate change and how we can make a difference.
• We will be looking at how climate change has affected the polar regions.

• Practising spelling
• We are asking children to make a shape poster for us to display in the classroom. We have included word mats with the spellings and properties of these shapes to help.

•Adding –ed, er and -est to nouns and verbs ending in –y.

Reading records and folders need to be in EVERY DAY

Please ensure your child always has a water bottle in school with them every day

We are now sending home high quality picture books for your child to enjoy, alongside their school reading book. These books are to encourage reading for pleasure, so please read this as a family, as a night time story or encourage your child to enjoy this with their sibling/s. We will change these once a week on a Friday, so please ensure that picture books are returned on this day. We are also encouraging children to bring this in for reading time every day in class, to re-read and enjoy alongside their school reading book. Thank you so much for the funds you raised at the cake sales, as the money raised was spent on new books for year 2.

Please bring in orange juice, alpro milk cartons or similar for our bird feeder project! We will be making these in the second week.

Woodpeckers – Monday (outdoor) and Thursday (indoor)

Swans – Wednesday (outdoor) Thursday (indoor)

Please ensure your child comes to school in an weather appropriate PE kit on their PE day.

Monday 24th February - INSET DAY

Tuesday 3^rd March – Arctic Explorer Visit

Tuesday 3rd March and Wednesday 4th March - Parent Teacher Meetings

Thursday 5th March - World Book Day