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 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!

This week!

Nigel has enjoyed Art where we used the sketching skills that we learned last half term to complete an observational drawing of a police badge. Some children remembered how to create different shades by pressing harder and softer using their pencils.

Sunny has enjoyed Maths this week, where we have been practising our addition and subtraction skills to add ones, tens and groups of tens to different numbers.

Sonny has been reading another Roald Dahl Classic at home, George’s Marvellous Medicine, and has loved reading Fantastic Mr Fox in class as it is our class reading book this half term!

Phoebe enjoyed our English lesson today, where we learned about the prefix -un, meaning the opposite of the word it is in front of. We hunted for ‘un’ words and had to find their opposite word!

Sophie has enjoyed History this week where we learned all about crime in London in the past, and how people took it upon themselves to police the areas in the 1700’s – we then realised that they were not very good at their jobs and it took Sir Robert Peel to create the Metropolitan Police Act in 1829, and introduce the Police Force, to keep the community of London much more safe.

Dougie has enjoyed our Power of Reading text, the Magic Finger, which has given us lots of mature discussions linking with our Sustainable Development Goal ‘Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions’ – we have talked about Fox Hunting and the reasons for and against it. The children had some really interesting thoughts and we turned our ideas into a discussion and a debate – the children argued their cases really well and were very grown up in their responses.

If your child would like to sign up to sing at the Buckden Light Switch On event, please do this through Arbor – it should be going live this weekend and Mrs Farmer will begin rehearsals next week in preparation for the occasion!

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team