Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader or in your child’s reading diary. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week at home. If you would like a paper reading diary to record your reading at home, please let us know and we can provide one for you.

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 – fifteen minutes every day 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 rule, words ending -al and -il over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday.

This week!

Thank you to everyone who has read our homework expectations letter – the number of you who are reading at home regularly and completing your doodle learning has improved significantly – this will continue to help your child make progress with their reading and their maths, and we really appreciate your support.

Harry, Hugo and lots of other children have enjoyed our Science learning this week, where we have started an investigation into which conditions make germs grow the fastest. We touched a slice of bread with dirty hands, clean hands (soap) and clean hands (sanitiser) and have zipped the bread in a bag which we have taped to our cupboard door in order to observe the growth of mould over a period of two weeks. We predicted which bread we thought would grow mould the fastest and talked about why we think this is. We are looking forward to seeing the bread change and hope it doesn’t smell too much!

Phoebe has enjoyed our Reading this week, where we have continued to focus on our shared reading book, Kongy arrives. It is quite a lengthy read but the children can remember what happened and can answer questions about the text.

Dougie has enjoyed our English learning this week, where we have continued the Beast’s journey into the water – and then turned our focus onto Jellyfish. We have explored what Jellyfish are like, thinking about their appearance and their movement, and have turned our phrases into poems which we have written up in neat today!

Seb has enjoyed our RE learning this week, where we have been learning about how Muslims are encouraged by their God, Allah, to show compassion for living things. We looked at how some cats and dogs aren’t lucky enough to have homes, and that some people who are very kind, give up their time to adopt them and look after them, giving them a forever home.

Bertie has loved our English work this week where he wrote a lovely poem about a Jellyfish, and has loved handwriting too!

The children have worked really hard this week, we have given them two Maths test papers to try, which Amelia and lots of the others enjoyed completing, which has shown us how much progress the children have already made, even though we aren’t even half way through the year yet! We are really proud of the children’s resilience and determination.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team