Beech Class - Mrs Butler and Mrs Carini
Pine Class - Mrs Silver and Mrs Lemarie
Beech class
Pine class
Friday 14th October 2022 - James Brunt Artist Visit
Today, an artist called James Brunt came to visit and work with everyone in the school to share and show us how he uses the natural world to create beautiful art. He explained how we were the artists and had to collaborate together. Beech class started the whole school piece of art and pine class carried in on. James then worked with the rest of the school to create our own Holtsmere End Infant School natural artwork. We had SO much fun!
Thursday 13th and Friday 14th October 2022
Leaf Printing
Hemel Hempstead Local Area Walk
On Tuesday 4th October, we went on our first school trip of Year 2. We were dropped off at Gadebridge Park and followed our prepared maps as we explored our local area of Hemel Hempstead. The children looked out for key places including; St Mary's Church, the Play Park, River Gade and the Library. We also focused on the differences between the Old and New told and identified the different Human and Physical features of our local area.
Monday 10th October - Art
Today in our Art lesson, we explored texture and pattern. The children used crayons to create bark tree and leaf rubbings. We discussed the technique to get the best result and we also talked about the different patterns and textures of the different leaves. The children had lots of fun and it was lovely to take our learning outdoors!
Week Beginning - Monday 21st November 2022.
We have had another fantastic week full of exciting activities. We were all very pleased with England's result on Monday afternoon's World Cup game!
In English, we have been continuing to read the book, 'Wild' by Emily Hughes and we have been thinking about the setting and using adjectives to describe it.
We carried out observations as part of our Science experiment and the changes to the egg shells shocked us all!
Our spelling rule this week from Read Write Inc is; adding the suffix -y. We have been exploring how we have to sometimes double the consonant when adding the suffix -y if a short vowel
sound comes before.
Here are some words that we have been looking at this week:
mud --- muddy
run --- runny
spot --- spotty
chop --- choppy
Can you practise spelling these words or can you think of any other words that use this spelling rule?
If your child brings home a Little Wandle reading book on a Friday, please practise the sounds and words on the inside cover of the text.
Week Beginning 14th November 2022
We have had a very busy week! On Tuesday, we went to the sports centre and participated in team games. There were a few different schools there. We worked hard together and had lots of fun. We have been learning about World War 2 and finding out information from different sources. In English, we have started reading the book 'Wild' by Emily Hughes. We have been encouraged to infer information about the characters by looking at the pictures and we have started to explore the setting in the text.
Our spelling rule this week from Read Write Inc is; soft ‘c’, this is where the letter c makes the /s/ sound. Here are some words that this spelling rule applies too:
city
cell
exercise
mice
icy
cycle
fancy
Can you practise spelling these words or can you think of any other words that use this spelling rule?
If your child brings home a Little Wandle reading book on a Friday, please practise the sounds and words on the inside cover of the text.
Sparkly Friday - 4th November 2022
Today we all got to have a sparkler on the playground to celebrate Bonfire and Fireworks nights! We had so much fun.
Spellings - Week Beginning 7th November 2022
This week lots of the children have started learning spelling patterns using the Read Write Inc. spelling scheme. Our new rule that we have been learning this week is;
‘In some words the ‘or’ sound is spelt a when it comes before l or ll.’ Here are some words that this spelling rule applies too.
tall
ball
small
fall
talk
chalk
Can you practise spelling these words or think of any other words that use this spelling rule?
Dance videos
Week Beginning - Monday 9th January
We had a fantastic first week back! The children were introduced to our new topic, 'Sails, Rails, Wheels and Wings' and explored artefacts that were found belonging to someone famous. The children later discovered this was Amelia Earhart. In Maths, we explored measure including; mass, length and capacity.
Friday 9th December - Here are some photographs from our celebration afternoon!
