Year 2 Blog- Friday 27th September 2024

Date: 25th Sep 2024 @ 5:41pm

Home Practice

Reading: In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (04.10.24):

of, says, your, me, we,

there, love, one, ask, pull.

Sumdog: Complete the 'Addition/Subtraction within 20' challenge.

Counting: At home, count in 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards.

English

We have started learning through the story of The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark. The owl is called Plop. We wrote sentences to describe him, using adjectives and connectives.

In pairs, we discussed why he might be afraid of the dark and wrote some possible reasons for this. 

Phonics

We have been learning ui as in fruit, u-e as in rude and u-e as in cute.

SPaG

We have been learning about proper nouns, common nouns and adjectives. We have also been learning about how many syllables are in a word.

Maths

The children learned how to add a 1 digit number to a 2 digit number, 26+4. we have also been learning about subtraction.

We have been counting in 10's.

French

PE

The children have really improved their under arm throwing and catching. They have played various mini games and learnt about the importance of dodging to get away from a defender.

RE

The children have completed their Noah's Ark puppets which they will use to act out the story. We also read the story of God's Rainbow which explains God's promise, love and faithfulness.

Forest School

This week we used the leaf cutters to make leaf confetti. Some of us practised tying knots and stick wrapping. We found a lot of apples and spent time collecting them, which required our problem solving skills, washing them and cooking with them.

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