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 ‘when adding a suffix to words ending in -y, i.e. ‘happy’, we drop the y and add an ‘i’ before adding the suffix, except for when we add -ing where we keep the y’ over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday.

This week!

Sophie, Sonny and Ruby have enjoyed our English learning this week, where we planned, prepared and wrote a diary entry about our journey under the sea. We made sure to include key events, our emotions at the time and we even challenged ourselves to use ‘because’ to explain why we were feeling that way. All of the children gave their independent writing a really good go and we are so proud of their finished diary entries!

George, Hugo, Harry and lots of other children have enjoyed learning about shapes this week! We have drawn around a range of 2D shapes, learned their names and how to spell them, as well as looked at their properties. We now know how many sides and vertices that lots of different 2D shapes have.

Phoebe has enjoyed Geography this week where we have learned about the different sources of water on our planet, including those that are made naturally such as a pond, rivers and streams and rainwater, as well as those made by humans, which include wells, dams and tubewells!

Jonah and lots of other children enjoyed Charlie’s 3 minute talk this week, where he brought a sturgeon into class and could share lots of facts all about it!

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team