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

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 -le and -el, over the weekend ready for our quiz.

This week!

Dougie and Amelia have enjoyed learning about the character in our new class reading book, ‘The Beast’. We have thought about what we know, what we think we know and we have used our ideas to write a character description about the Beast.

Sophie, Hugo and lots of others have enjoyed Science this week, where we learned all about germs (both bad and good!), how quickly and easily they can spread, and how we can stop them!

Grace and Abel have enjoyed Global Learning this week, where we have been introduced to our new Goal – Clean Water and Sanitation. We thought about why it is important to have clean water, and the impact of drinking dirty water.

Phoebe enjoyed Computing this week, where we learned all about the buttons on a keyboard – we focused on the home row keys, and practised typing using both hands by playing a game on Purple Mash! If you would like to practise this at home, you can log onto your Purple Mash account and click on the ‘2 Type’ application.

Ollie, Charlie and Monty have enjoyed Maths this week, where we have been learning about doubling 2-digit numbers. On Friday we had a sneak peek of a practice Arithmetic SAT paper, and we loved using our whiteboards to show our methods when solving the different types of questions.

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 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 – ten 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 – this week we have been looking at the suffix -less, meaning that something is ‘without’ a quality.

Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rule over the weekend ready for our quiz – we will be doing it later on in the week to give the children a chance to practise them properly as we have had a few off this week!

This week!

Ruby and lots of others have enjoyed having the iPads out in our Computing lesson this week, putting our knowledge and skills of algorithms and instructions into practice by controlling Bee-bots and instructing them to get to different objects.

Martha has enjoyed reading this week. Seb enjoyed visiting St Neots Library as part of our trip on Tuesday and learned all about how we can visit the Library for free, borrow up to 12 books at a time for up to 3 weeks – the children got to read a selection of different books and stories, and the children were inspired to get their own books – Sonny has enjoyed reading his own comic!

Phoebe enjoyed our trip to St Neots Museum this week, where we have been learning about the Police – we learned about where the criminals and the prisoners would sleep, we learned that their beds were made out of wood and we also learned that lots of criminals in the Victorian times were actually children and teenagers. We noticed that they were possibly poor or in poverty, and that they needed to go out and steal food, money and toys in order to eat and play.

Jonah has enjoyed Maths this week – we have continued to practice adding and subtracting two digit numbers and 1 digit numbers when we need to bridge through 10 – the children persevered brilliantly and were all successful!

Yesterday we had a very exciting Facetime with the man himself – Father Christmas told us that we have worked really hard this term and have made it to the Nice List! Apparently, one of the teachers is on the naughty list – we can’t work out who it is!!!

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 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.

Your child will be receiving our new Shared Reading Book on Monday.

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 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 – this week we are looking at apostrophes to show possession, for example: the lady’s hat, the boy’s football, the girl’s shoes.

Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rules over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday morning!
The spellings are: loudest, shouting crowded, counting, growl, mouth

This week!

Amelia has enjoyed Maths this week where we have been practising using a place value grid to add one-digit numbers to two-digit number, and we have been super resilient when learning how to exchange ten ones for a ten in order to bridge through to the next decade!

Bertie and George have enjoyed improving thei handwriting this week, where we have been continuing to practise the cursive script needed to join our letters.

Ollie has enjoyed Science this week where we have been thinking about our bodies when we exercise.

Phoebe has enjoyed Reading this week where we have been learning about Nick Park – he links really nicely with our Art work where we will be using clay to make our Police Badges. Did you know, Nick Park was the creator of our very own Wallace and Gromit Series, as well as Chicken Run!

Jonah enjoyed our Reading Comprehension where we learned about the Police, including what they need, the support they get and what you need to do to be a Police Officer when you are older!

Seb has enjoyed PE where we have continued to practise our throwing and catching.

We are very proud of how our children have practised and participated in our Year 4 and Year 2 Production of The Wind in the Willows – we hope that you enjoyed the show, the children were fantastic!

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 and spacing.

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!

We have introduced our new Global Learning Goal - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. We talked about what the United Nations are aiming to achieve through this goal, and talked about 'rules'. We talked about what rules are, places that we have to follow rules and began thinking about who enforces the rules. We had a very interesting discussion about what life would look like if there were no rules, and what life would look like if everyone followed the rules. The children had some really throught provoking ideas and we are excited to see where our learning takes us!

In English we have introduced the character 'Girl' in our new Power of Reading book. We talked about what we know based on a single picture, and we asked lots of questions to the other characters that we introduced later on in the week.

In Maths, we have been looking at 'difference', what it means, and how we can use different strategies to calculate it. We looked at using subtraction, as well as counting on using a numberline to support us in our learning.

In Science, we have begun to think about what 'exercise is' and went outside this afternoon to practise some different types of exercise. We will be thinking about the impact of exercise on our bodies, what happens when we exercise and the short and long term effects of exercise.

It was lovely to meet you all at parents evening this week to discuss your children, how they have settled and their progress so far. If you have any questions, queries or concerns please dont hesitate to catch us at the door or email us at year2@bpa.act-academytrust.org.

Have a lovely weekend.

Best wishes,
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.

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

This week!

Sonny really enjoyed changing his Avatar on his Purple Mash account. If you would like to access Purple Mash from home, please follow this link: https://www.purplemash.com/sch/buckden 

Your child’s username is their first name and the first letter of their surname. For example, Miss Freeman would be MissF. The children know their passwords but also know the importance of keeping their password a secret.

Jonah is loving reading Matilda at home with his family – he was excited to tell us that it is a chapter book, written by our Class Author, Roald Dahl! Any opportunities to read at home are fantastic for your child’s reading development, and we love hearing about what you are reading at home so please continue to share this with us.

Dougie has quite liked learning about Habitats and Microhabitats in our Science learning this week. Sunny could tell me that a Microhabitat is a tiny home for Minibeasts inside a larger habitat. Dougie could tell me that an example of a Microhabitat could be a fallen log, soil, a crack in a building or even a can of pop!

Sophie also enjoyed Science as we explored the different plants and animals that live within our local habitat, including the forest area and our school pond! We found a frog, lily pads, algae and we even found mushrooms – we talked about the importance of not picking them as they can be poisonous.

Phoebe has loved that we have finally finished ‘The Last Wolf’ which had a fantastic ending, and she loved creating a map to retell the story. The children then used their story maps to write the story in their own words – Miss Freeman was SO impressed with their stories, and their creativity to tell it in their own way.

Seb, alongside the whole class are loving being in Year 2 and we are continuing to get to know each other and all about ourselves including the things that interest us and the learning that we enjoy!

Please ensure that if you have still got a copy of our class shared reader 'Extreme Earth' that you return it in your child's reading folder on Monday.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team