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 continues to be a big focus this half term 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.

This week!

Grace enjoyed Science this week. We thought about the properties of different materials and began planning an investigation to test which material would make the best umbrella for a teddy bear! We discussed the properties of a range of different materials and predicted which would be the best and the worst materials, and why.

Hallan enjoyed visualising Egg Box Dragon in our English learning this week. We read the children a description from our new CLPE book, and the children had to draw what they saw in their minds eye. The children produced some beautiful drawings, using the description as their guide!

Sophie and Charlie enjoyed our Maths learning this week, where the children continued to describe a range of turns and movement using positional language. We have mastered the turns, clockwise and anti-clockwise and the children loved playing the locked door game where we had to make turns before the time ran out in order to escape.

Despite the weather being ridiculously hot, and the classrooms reaching high temperatures, the children have coped incredibly well and lots of learning has still taken place. We have enjoyed a slightly altered timetable, with more outdoor breaks, and Nigel, Ruby and most of the Year 2 children have loved the opportunity to get outside and be hosed down in order to stay cool in this June heatwave!

Have a lovely weekend, and here’s to a cooler transition week, next week!

The Year 2 Team