Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week.

Handwriting:

Any opportunity to practise writing your letters using our cursive script at home would greatly help with developing and improving your child’s handwriting. We are focusing on ensuring our small letters are small, our tall letters are tall (and long) and that they are consistent in size.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – ten minutes daily will help your child stay in the Green Zone! We will set an assignment for your child to do each Friday, to be completed by the following Friday.

Spellings:

We will be sending home a list of words for your child to practise at home each Tuesday.

Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rules over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday morning!

This week!

In our English this week we have been exploring the function of different words in our writing. We have looked at the role of the adjective within a sentence – to describe a noun. The children had a go at writing a range of adjectives to describe some different objects such as a teddy bear, a cat, a flower and a puppy. We then took it one step further by writing some noun phrases about different elements of our story, The Last Wolf. Some of our favourite noun phrases included: sticky honeycomb, adorable fox, beautiful flower, tiny ladybird and big, buzzy bees.

In Maths this week we have been comparing numbers using inequality symbols – greater than and less than. The children have shown a fantastic understanding of this!

In History this week we have begun to dig into the life of the wonderful David Attenborough! We learned about his early life and his career, and that he was knighted not once, but twice by Queen Elizabeth II in 1985 and by Prince Charles (now King Charles) in 2022 for his work and stewardship towards our planet.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week.

Handwriting:

Any opportunity to practise writing your letters using our cursive script at home would greatly help with developing and improving your child’s handwriting. We are focusing on ensuring our small letters are small, our tall letters are tall (and long) and that they are consistent in size.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – ten minutes daily will help your child stay in the Green Zone! We will set an assignment for your child to do each Friday, to be completed by the following Friday.

Spellings:

We will be sending home a list of words for your child to practise at home each Tuesday. Please use the ‘Look, cover, write, check’ worksheet to practise them daily ready for a quiz on Monday mornings. Next week will be focusing on adding suffixes to split digraph words and having to drop the ‘e’. Examples: shake – shaking, craze – crazy, brave – braver.

This week!

What a fantastic week we’ve had!

The children are settling well into the rules and routines of Year 2 and are getting quicker at those tricky transition times! The children are learning the expectations of our classrooms such as sitting quietly at tables and trying their hardest to focus during independent learning activities.

It has been fantastic to see the children’s reading ability already in our shared reading sessions, we have loved learning about Chicken Little and we were shocked to read the alternative version of the story where the birds all got eaten by the hungry fox family! Please ensure your copy of ‘Chicken Little’ is returned by Monday ready to swap to our next shared reading book.

We have begun to learn some of the songs that we will be performing in our play – we have some super singers and some budding dancers too! We will share more about this in the upcoming weeks.

The children loved predicting what Red pounces on in our English learning this week, we had some interesting predictions and we can’t wait to find out what happens on the next page when we carry on next week!

A little reminder that children should not be bringing toys or games into school.

Next Friday morning we are hoping to take a walk around the village to look at some of the different human and physical features in our locality. If you are free to join us on our walk, we should be leaving school at 9am and hope to be return for breaktime at 10:30am. Please email the Year 2 team on year2@bpa.act-academytrust.org if you are available - we appreciate any of your time.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team