Year 2 Blog Friday 11th November 2022

Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 4:41pm

Year 2 have done so much learning this week and thoroughly enjoyed the more practical activities we have done. In Maths, they have continued their work on shape looking at 2-D and 3-D shapes and their properties. The children did well making 3-D shapes, such as cubes, cuboids, pyramids and triangular prisms, from art straws and blue-tac today. In Art, they designed firework paintings and made lovely poppies for Remembrance Day. In English, we have worked on using joining words (conjunctions) more in our sentences and always using a describing word (adjective) with a noun. They also did some fantastic writing about fireworks. In R.E they learnt about Shabbat and Havdalah Candles for Judaism week. In French, Year 2 looked at French customs for Remembrance Day. French people add cornflowers to their wreaths as well as poppies because the blue reminds them of the soldier's uniforms. We made a wreath by drawing round our hands and joining them together as a sign of peace. We listened to a song in French about being a child of peace. 

Reading

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

In a few weeks, we are hoping to visit the library in Longton. It would be great if you could practise the alphabet with your children and talk about alphabetical order. This will prepare them for finding books in the library.

Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or finished the book. MG.

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 (18.11.22). 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 18.11.22.

This week’s spellings:

belong              hairy

begin                tough    

sky                    you

July                   soup

baby                  once

Maths

At home, count forwards and backwards to 100. Pick any number between 1 and 100, say what one more/less than that number is. For example 25, one more than 25 is 26 and one less than 25 is 24. You could write them down or call them out. Then have a go at 10 more/less than a number. For example 67, ten more than 67 is 77 and 10 less than 67 is 57.

You will have a 2x, 5x and 10x tables and 2-D/3-D shape challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 18.11.22.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Remember coats and wellies for Forest School!

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.