Where The Wild Things Are

Today, we read

The boys wrote some wonderful descriptions about these four ‘wild things’.

Can you remember the story well enough to answer these comprehension questions?

(1) What sound do the wild things make?

(2) Why did Max send the wild things off without their supper?

(3) When Max felt lonely where did he want to be?

(4) Why did the wild things want to eat Max up?

(5) Why did Max want to leave the wild things?

(6) Where did Max go at the end of the story?

(7) Would you like to visit the wild things? Why or why not?

This text may help you if you get stuck,

 ‘Where the Wild Things Are’

And when he came to the place where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible claws until Max said “BE STILL!” and tamed them with a magic trick of staring in to all their yellow eyes without blinking once and they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all the wild things. “And now”, cried Max “let the wild rumpus start!”

“Now stop!” Max said and sent the wild things off to bed without their supper. And Max the king of all wild things was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Then all around from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat so he gave up being king of where the wild things are. But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go – we’ll eat you up – we love you so!”

And Max said, “No!”

The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws, but Max stepped in to his private boat and waved good-bye. He sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and in to the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot.

 

 

The 100 Square

Hundred squares are a great resource for Maths. Why not have a go at one or more of these simple games? All that is needed are 100 squares (filled in/ blank), dice and counters.

  1. Cover-up
    Cover up one or more squares using counters. The child has to guess which numbers are hidden under the counter/s.
  2. Adding and subtracting 10
    Add or subtract 10 from any number. What is happening to the number each time? (The units will stay the same and the 10s will increase or decrease by 10.) After some practise children will be able to go down the columns to add 10 and up the columns to subtract 10. They will need to find this out by counting along 10 at first.
  3. Adding or subtracting game
    Use the 100 square as a ‘snakes and ladders’ type board.

Roll a dice, say the number, count the squares and move your counter. Or use two dice, add the numbers and move your counter. Either move from 1-100 by adding or from 100-1 by taking away.

  1. Race to the target
    Use a blank 100 square. Time how long it takes to fill in the numbers. Begin up to 20, 30 or 50. Repeat to see if they can improve on their time.
  2. Missing numbers
    Draw pieces of the 100 square on the blank side with only some of the numbers filled in. Children think about the numbers and the patterns to fill in the empty spaces.
  3. Squares
    Highlight a 2 by 2 square.

What do you notice? Is it always the same? Add the numbers in opposite corners.

 

  1. Patterns
    Cover the multiples of 2, 3, 5 and 10 etc (one multiple at a time).

Use the patterns to predict which numbers will be in the sequence.

The Heart

Did you know?

Your heart is really a muscle. It’s located a little to the left of the middle of your chest, and it’s about the size of your fist. There are lots of muscles all over your body — in your arms, in your legs and in your back.

But the heart muscle is special because of what it does. The heart sends blood around your body. The blood provides your body with the oxygen and nutrients it needs. It also carries away waste.

Your heart is sort of like a pump, or two pumps in one. The right side of your heart receives blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs. The left side of the heart does the exact opposite: It receives blood from the lungs and pumps it out to the body.

 

We enjoyed trying different exercises to make our hearts beat faster. These included clapping, jumping, hopping, catching and running on the spot.

Quiz

(1) How many chambers does the heart have?

(2) Is the heart a muscle?

(3) Where is your heart located?

(4) What type of diet is best for your heart?

Please comment with your answers. Thank you.

 

Keeping Healthy

Today we talked about how to keep ourselves healthy. We focussed on exercise and how our body changes when exercising. The boys did different activities and recorded how it made them feel. I am sure they will enjoy telling you all about it!

Dogger

We have enjoyed reading ‘Dogger’, written by Shirley Hughes. The boys have sequenced the story correctly and we will be mapping exciting adventures for Dogger.

It would be lovely if the boys could now write an alternative ending for the story. This could be emailed to the class teachers or added to our class blog (by commenting on this post). All comments will be approved by the class teachers before they are seen on the blog.

The boys’ stories will be displayed here on our blog for all to enjoy.

We can’t wait to read your super stories.

Welcome Back!

I hope you all had a restful summer.

It has be lovely to welcome all the boys to Year 2. They have settled in really well and are working hard.

We have enjoyed reading all the postcards and they look wonderful on the wall.

I have also been impressed to see some Homework Grid work, what an excellent start!