Year 2 Blog Friday 10th March 2023

Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 4:03pm

A very busy week in Year 2, the children have thoroughly enjoyed their learning. In English, we are continuing our work on instructions but we have also started a new novel, The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. We thought about and planned a poem about the dark which we will write next week. In Maths, we looked at division as grouping and sharing and solved tricky problems that sometimes had remainders. In French, we recapped the vocabulary for family members and drew and labelled our families. We saw that some letters have accents on and that these change the sound of the letter. We have started our dance topic in PE. The children moved so well as the elements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air. In RE, we discussed the different parts of Mass and labelled pictures with sentences, using religious words and phrases. The children looked at what happens to our bodies when we exercise for Science. The highlight of the week was when the Japanese students came to teach a lesson about stories in Japan. The children made ogre faces with card and coloured paper. They also learnt a Japanese dance that the whole school performed in Golden Assembly. A new author, Stuart Rowland came to talk to the children this afternoon. He used to work on Cbeebies and CBBC. He was very interesting and good fun to listen to.

Forest School

This week we have done a variety of learning, some outside and some in the lodge . All of us planted a range of seeds which we are going to look after. We practised tying knots in strawberry laces which we could then eat!

Some of us did some den building and some of us listened to the legend of Guatemalen worry dolls and had a go at making our own using sticks, wool and fabric.

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.

Reading books are changed every Wednesday. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.

Reading resources:

Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.

If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’. You could also explore the rest of the site and read books from the Oxford Owl eBook library or listen to audio books.

Username: sto2

Password: 1234

Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf

In addition to this, reading a good bed time story to your child is so worthwhile and really helps towards a lifelong love of reading.

Spelling

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (17.03.23). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 17.03.23.

This week’s spellings:

/l/ sound spelt ‘le’ at the end of words, following a consonant. Including two words from the Year 1/2 spelling list.

table             muddle

apple            people   

little              bottle

kettle            pretty

middle           beautiful

Maths

Great effort learning your division facts for the 5x tables in a random order. It was tricky but everyone tried so hard.

Next week for our quiz (17.02.23) we will be learning the 2x table in order. The children have brought home a 2x table poster to learn.

Count in 2’s forwards and backwards, see how quickly you can go, but it must still be accurate. Challenge yourself and go past 100. Chant/sing the x2 table. Ask an adult to quiz you on them in order.

You will have a 2x table challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 17.03.23. There will also be a challenge including multiplication, repeated addition and arrays.

Here are some links to other maths games/apps the children can play to help them learn their number facts.

Topmarks.co.uk also have and English section for phonics/spellings games. If you explore the site you will find lots of different games that are relevant to Year 2.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

(I believe this app is free to download.)

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Remember it’s our trip to ‘Bring Yer wellies’ on Tuesday 14^th March. Packed lunches are provided. The children should wear tracksuit bottoms and suitable footwear and their usual shirt/tie/jumper/cardigan. Remember a warm coat as it could be very cold!

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.