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 spellings – a selection of spellings from our recent PiXL assessment.

This week!

The children have enjoyed our English this week, we looked at a range of instruction texts and identified their features, we then planned different ways to catch the nasty Witch from our CLPE book 'Rapunzel' and Bertie and Harry loved designing their own trap to catch the Witch! Next week we will be finishing our instruction texts, focusing on the presentation of our written work.

A standout subject this week was Maths where we have recapped telling the time to o’clock, half past, quarter past and lots of us have mastered quarter to the hour!

Grace and lots of the children loved our Art lesson this week, in which we put our sketching skills to practice by creating our final self-portrait. The children begun to create some wonderful portraits, with real focus on the shape of each of our facial features. We can’t wait to finish them next week and hope that some will go up in Church!

The children spent this afternoon on our school field for our Science learning. The children could remember what a habitat and a microhabitat are, could identify a range of animals, minibeasts and plants/flowers that we might find in our local habitat and then we went out on a minibeast hunt, using our observational skills to identify and count the number of each type of minibeasts we could find. We used the mathematical skill of tallying to help quickly count the number of minibeasts we found and used our counting in 5s to total up!

In French this week, we have remembered all 10 musical instruments in French, and began to look at the determiners le, la and les used with each instrument.

Unfortunately we will no longer be going to Church on Monday - we apologise but we will no longer need the parent volunteers who had offered to walk alongside us - thank you for offering, we always appreciate it.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team