Spellings:
New Y2 spellings: Words ending in: -le/-el
Please practise the following words:
bubble, giggle, little, bottle,  
travel, model, tunnel, squirrel, level
Y2 Common Exception words: parents
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'Why do stars twinkle?' book, your banded book or a book from home. 
Maths:
Brimstone Class have won the Mammoth Mathematician award again this week, for the 10th time, but with only 38% active players! We are aiming to beat this and get at least 80% next week and continue on our streak of certificates!
Holly Blue Class, can you catch us?
Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Happy New Year! We have had a fabulous return from the Christmas break - the children have come in smiling and ready for their learning and we are very glad to have them back.

This week we in Maths we have revisited addition and subtraction, and the children have learned a new method when solving calculations - the column method. This has been a challenge and the children have shown resilience and perseverance when using the method, especially when needing to exchange a ten or knock next door and regroup! Any practise at home would be fantastic, remember to add/subtract the ones first, carry the ten when adding or borrow a ten subtracting and to show this on your workings!

In English we have started our new CLPE book, The Lonely Beast - the children have enjoyed story mapping the story and considering the Lonely Beasts emotions as he embarks on his long journey!

We have starter our new Global Learning Goal - Clean Water and Sanitation. We talked about the importance of clean water and working toilets, how some people aren't lucky enough to have these and the impact this has on their health and hygiene. We will continue to look at this over the half term and it's going to get smelly!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Best wishes, 
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

Spellings:
Revisit Y1 graphemes - compare: /or/ /ore/ /au/ /aw/
i.e. sword, port, north, more, shore, sore, august, haul, shawl, saw, prawn.
New Y2 spellings: adding the suffix -ful.
i.e. colourful, beautiful, mouthful, wonderful
Y2 Common Exception words: door, poor, floor, water, beautiful
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
Maths:
Numbots 30 minutes weekly. Practise 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

A big thank you for all of the children this week for working so so hard. 
Not only have the children worked hard in class, but they have worked their absolute socks off at the school performances this week. They have worked so hard to learn the songs, the dances and have the confidence to step on the stage in front of so many children and adults - we are so so proud of them.

On Friday the children across school celebrated the Festival of Lights, and learned about how this is celebrated in different religions. Year 2 learnt about the festival of 'Diwali', meaning 'rows of light. We learnt about the story of Rama and Sita, and how the heroic prince saved his princess by defeating the Evil King Ravana in a huge battle with monkeys and other animals! We learnt that good always triumphs over evil and light always triumps over darkness. The children spent the afternoon creating their own Mendhi designs and colouring their own Rangoli patterns.

Have a lovely restful weekend.

Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

Spellings 

Revisiting Year 1 - Compare: /ou/ /ow/ (shout/ crown)

New for Year 2 - Apostrophes for possession

CEW - hour

Special Skill - Homophones: hear/here

Maths  use numbots 3 times a week 

Reading Read daily and record on boom reader 

Spellings:
Practise some of the following common exception words: great, break, steak, because, again, even, people, find, kind, mind, wild, child(ren), climb, old, cold, gold, hold, fold, told, most, only, clothes, both, hello.

This week has been a super week in Year 2!

Hugo has really enjoyed our shared reader this week, where we have been practising reading to develop our fluency, and even performed our favourite animal poems to our friends!

Jesse has enjoyed getting outside to collect our natural materials ready to fill our newly made Bug Houses next week. We can't wait to share these with you on Friday at koinonia!

Bode has enjoyed our first rehearsal of the play where we teamed up with Year 4 to sing some of the songs and to share our fabulous dances!

Jacob has enjoyed learning all about the different 2D and 3D shapes. We have learned how to count the number of sides, the number of vertices and we have even learned about lines of symmetry. Reuben knows that a line of symmetry shows us that both sides of the shape are exactly the same, and can be vertical, horizontal or even diagonal.

George enjoyed PE this week where we have practised dribbling a range of balls with our feet showing control and coordination.

Just one more week to go until we can sit back and relax... the children have worked so hard and deserve a well-deserved rest!

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

Spellings 

Rule - Adding suffixes to split digraph words and other words ending in ‘e’

Common Exepction Words (CEW) - old, cold, gold, hold, fold, told

Special Skill - Contraction: don’t

Maths  - Numbots 3 times a week 

Reading  - Read daily and log it on boom reader