Year 2 Blog Friday 12th May 2023

Date: 12th May 2023 @ 4:53pm

Year 2 have had a very busy week of learning and fun activities. In English, the children worked on their spellings with the suffix - ful and also wrote a diary entry from Princess Jasmin’s point of view, using great openers, conjunctions and adjectives that end – ful, like colourful, beautiful and thoughtful. They also had a mini-debate (should Jasmin trust Aladdin, yes or no?) and created freeze frames from the story, with interview questions about how the characters would have felt at that moment. In Maths, we have continued our work on fractions but linked it to position and direction so the children made full turns, half turns, one/three quarter turns. We discussed right angles and compared these to the quarter turns we made. In Science, the children drew diagrams and labelled the crocus bulbs we grew earlier in the year. During Art, the children made Tiddalik the frog clay models. They learnt to use the tools and techniques necessary for making clay creations. Have a look at the Tiddalik art in the Gallery section. We will be painting them next week. In French, we continued our French phonics learning with some new sounds and actions, focussing on the sounds in the numbers 0 to 5. We then recapped the vocabulary for clothes with a story (Je m'habille et je te croque) and game. Our new History topic is King, Queens and Castles. Year 2 did a fun activity gathering information from around the classroom about different Kings and Queens. In PE, we practised for Sports Day. It’s on Tuesday 16^th May – looking forward to a lovely sunny afternoon of running, throwing, obstacle races and more.

Outdoor Learning

This week four groups cooked on a fire. We used wood and charcoal this time and cooked in the embers of the fire . We rolled bread dough into balls and cooked it in the fire-it was delicious!

We also cut a slit in the skin of bananas and put chocolate buttons in the slits. We then wrapped the bananas in foil and baked them in the embers of the fire. They were so yummy, the chocolate melted and the bananas went soft.

The last group will do this on Monday.

We also chose to build shelters and our own play fires which we could pretend to cook on. Some of us were still very interested in making mouse traps !

Cooking on a Fire

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/Maths

There will be no spellings/times tables or Sumdog to learn next week as we will be busy doing the Year 2 Quizzes in Reading and Maths.

Please continue to read with your child and make sure they are well rested and ready for our busy week ahead.

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

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.