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.

Handwriting will be a big focus after the Easter holidays, with a set session daily to develop fine motor skills and reteach the orientation of each letter, both capital and lowercase.

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.

If you would like to practise other areas of Maths over the holidays, any addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (2, 5 and 10x tables) would benefit your child greatly.

Spellings:

Please continue to practise your spellings over the weekend. You will have your test on Monday morning, and receive your new spellings on Tuesday to take home and practise.

This week!

Dougie and Grace have enjoyed History this week where we have continued to look at life in the Workhouse. Dougie remembers that children were locked in their dormitories at night and had to wee in a pail! We have begun writing our Workhouse Factfiles and can’t wait to share these with you next week.

Harry and so many of the children enjoyed making their transportation devices on Friday. Next week we will be presenting our vehicles to the Mayor of France, but before we do that, the children will be thinking about what they want to say and how they are going to present it clearly and concisely, with an oracy focus.

Jonah enjoyed Science this week where we became Botanical Illustrators – we looked carefully at the features of a couple of different flowers and labelled our finished diagram using the correct vocabulary.

In Maths this week we have looked at volume and capacity, and thought about how we can measure in both millilitres and litres. We discussed which unit of measurement would be sensible to use when thinking about different sized containers, such as a bucket and a swimming pool!

The children have continued to enjoy Music this week where we have practised our skills playing the recorder. We have mastered the notes B A and G, and we can even play a little tune which we will be sharing with you next week.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team