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WEEK 10: October 31st-November 4th 2016

    We have had a lovely week learning about fairy tales and writing a storyboard for “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”.  Everyone is coming along well with their writing and are also enjoying it! The students even got a chance to perform a puppet show and next week hopefully we can do a performance on the stage outside.

 The students practiced together before  showtime.

We also celebrated another birthday for Pim this time, joined by her two younger sisters who also attend Ascot in Early Years and Year One. 

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Here is a fun song we sing in Math Class to help us to learn counting by 2's.

A game students enjoy learning about counting by 5's, 2's and 3's

                                   Weekly Review/Preview                    ___      

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 10 2016

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week we continued our work on fairy tale stories. We recently covered the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff and the students were asked to create a summary storyboard. First they mapped out the story using illustrations, then wrote the story, followed by some peer review of their efforts.	·         Continuing work on a new fairy tale story and the structure of stories.
Math	This week we’ve been counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, using resources such as the bead string. Then we used these counting skills to assist us with counting amounts of money. Then we moved onto adding various amounts of money to find the sum total.	·         Place value and ordering 2-digit numbers; ·         place value additions and subtractions; add and begin to subtract 9, 10 and 11
Inquiry	We have been finding out more about storytelling and have been spending time listening to the story of the 3 Billy goats gruff being shared in different ways - using puppets, read aloud, in a cartoon and a show. The students discussed what they liked and what they thought could be better.	·         We will ask what makes a good actor? - The students will put a short sketch together about the 3 billy goats gruff and consider during and after what attributes they needed as actors. We will also begin surveys to find out what our favourite method of storytelling is.
Notices and Events	KS1 Production upcoming dates - Costumes to be brought to school 18th November Learning scripts - to be learnt by 14th November