Year 2 Blog Friday 14th October 2022

Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 4:13pm

A fantastic week in Year 2, well done to everyone for working so hard and enjoying their learning. In English, we looked at the key features of information texts. We are almost ready to plan and write our own pet information sheets. The children are enjoying our new topic in Maths, addition and subtraction. They were working out missing numbers and we had a chance to play some maths games. In Science, we carried out a survey on how many creatures we found under a log/rock and coloured in a bar chart to show our findings. We learnt about the five oceans of the world in Geography. See how many you can remember! Year 2 have been singing their harvest songs so well in preparation for Tuesday’s celebration in Church. The words to one of them is above. I’m sure you could sing it to someone at home!

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.

You could look in a thesaurus and see what other words have the same meaning as the one you have found while reading.

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 good sounding out of tricky words or struggled with the word – because/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 Thursday (20.10.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

It will really help your children’s writing if they can spell the common words they use frequently in class. Attached are the Year 1 and 2 common exception words. Knowing sounds (phonics) will not help with these words, they just need to know them by memory/sight. Learning five or six of these words at a time will really help. Write them down and pin them up on the fridge or wall. We work on these in class as well and the children are tested (quiz) on them before Christmas.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by next Friday 20.10.22.

This week’s spellings:

mind                front

find                 rice    

only                 face

open                many

other               work

Maths

At home, count forwards in threes. Start at 0 and count up to 36. Write them down and spot any patterns.

You will have a 2x, 5x and 10x tables and an addition/subtraction challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Thursday 20.10.22.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Thank you for all the harvest donations.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.

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