Welcome to P2!

Hello and welcome to P2! Our teachers are Mrs Thompson and Mrs McWhirter. Our classroom assistants are Mrs Halliday and Miss Anderson.

Have a look at our latest P2 Newsletter – NovDec24

Nov/Dec

Homework:

Monday to Thursday nights the children will have reading. It is important to hear this reading every night. After half term the children will get high frequency words to cut out and use as flash cards at home. Please use these flash cards to try and improve quick recall of key words.

Theme - In the Toy Box

Up until Christmas our class theme will be 'In the Toy Box'. During this time we will be looking at old fashioned toys and playing in our toy shop in class. We will be looking at money and very importantly we will be writing a letter to Santa, thinking of all the lovely things we would like!

Maths

This half term we will be talking and learning about money. Help us recognise and know all the coins up to £1. We will be counting out pennies and playing games. We are practising counting up to 20 and down from 20-0. We will be playing games adding on 1 and 2 and talking about more and less.

We will continue to send out maths games to give you ideas to help with numbers. Please try to play these with your child as they improve numbers in a fun way.

Maths websites, songs and games:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VLxWIHRD4E

These are some of our favourite maths games and a little counting song we like to do in class. Use the QR codes on the Topmarks links to open them on your tablet/phone.

Literacy

Keep up the good work with the reading books and Jolly Phonics sounds – it all makes a difference.

We are really trying to reinforce good handwriting and correct letter formation - help your child practise their letters as much as possible, especially if they reverse any letters.

We are trying to encourage the children to write simple sentences themselves, using as many little 'common' words as possible. Help them to write out any words they know or can sound out e.g. the, up, see, good, look, on, off etc.

We have been focusing on learning the alphabet name for letters and will be doing a lot of work on the alphabet until Christmas - say it at home and match upper and lowercase letters.

We wish you all a Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year.

Mrs Thompson and Mrs McWhirter