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

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!

In our English this week we have been exploring the function of different words in our writing. We have looked at the role of the adjective within a sentence – to describe a noun. The children had a go at writing a range of adjectives to describe some different objects such as a teddy bear, a cat, a flower and a puppy. We then took it one step further by writing some noun phrases about different elements of our story, The Last Wolf. Some of our favourite noun phrases included: sticky honeycomb, adorable fox, beautiful flower, tiny ladybird and big, buzzy bees.

In Maths this week we have been comparing numbers using inequality symbols – greater than and less than. The children have shown a fantastic understanding of this!

In History this week we have begun to dig into the life of the wonderful David Attenborough! We learned about his early life and his career, and that he was knighted not once, but twice by Queen Elizabeth II in 1985 and by Prince Charles (now King Charles) in 2022 for his work and stewardship towards our planet.

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.

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. Please use the ‘Look, cover, write, check’ worksheet to practise them daily ready for a quiz on Monday mornings. Next week will be focusing on adding suffixes to split digraph words and having to drop the ‘e’. Examples: shake – shaking, craze – crazy, brave – braver.

This week!

What a fantastic week we’ve had!

The children are settling well into the rules and routines of Year 2 and are getting quicker at those tricky transition times! The children are learning the expectations of our classrooms such as sitting quietly at tables and trying their hardest to focus during independent learning activities.

It has been fantastic to see the children’s reading ability already in our shared reading sessions, we have loved learning about Chicken Little and we were shocked to read the alternative version of the story where the birds all got eaten by the hungry fox family! Please ensure your copy of ‘Chicken Little’ is returned by Monday ready to swap to our next shared reading book.

We have begun to learn some of the songs that we will be performing in our play – we have some super singers and some budding dancers too! We will share more about this in the upcoming weeks.

The children loved predicting what Red pounces on in our English learning this week, we had some interesting predictions and we can’t wait to find out what happens on the next page when we carry on next week!

A little reminder that children should not be bringing toys or games into school.

Next Friday morning we are hoping to take a walk around the village to look at some of the different human and physical features in our locality. If you are free to join us on our walk, we should be leaving school at 9am and hope to be return for breaktime at 10:30am. Please email the Year 2 team on year2@bpa.act-academytrust.org if you are available - we appreciate any of your time.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team