Year 2 Blog Friday 15th September

Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 4:08pm

We have had a great week of learning in Year 2 this week. We are becoming more confident in our new routines and becoming part of Year 2. Our focus this week has been ‘Super Listening’.

In Maths, we have continued our learning of Place Value. We have looked at tens and ones, both with the equipment and drawing lines and dots.

In English we have read ‘The Bear and the Piano’. The children have also written sentences about different WOW pictures from Pobble. The children are continuing their focus on sentence structure.

In RE this week the children have listened to the creative story. The children have drawn what they ‘Wonder’ about the beauty around them.

In Art, our topic is Draw and Explore. We have explored the outdoor environment to create our very own pictures of nature. The children created brilliant nature pictures including; butterflies, boats, faces and fire-pits.

In computing this week the children have explored ‘what I.T is’ and what we use computers for.

Forest School

In our first session we played a game around the log circle and talked about we are looking foward to.

We went for a walk to see what is growing. We also heard bird song. We sat around our new fire pit - we can't wait to use it!

It was all about team-work in our second session. We worked together to build an obstacle course using logs and branches.We tested the courses to make sure they were safe and we had a go on each others. Some of them had quite challenging balancing and jumping elements.

Thanks for sending in wellies.

Home Practice

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.

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 MONDAY. 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.

Spellings

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Wednesday (20.09.23). A sheet will go home every Wednesday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

Here are the spellings for this week:

a                     are

do                   said

to                    says

of                   were

the                  today

Maths

At home, can you count forwards and backwards in ones? Start at 0 and count up to 30. Challenge yourself and go to 50!

Can you notice numbers around your home and outside on a walk?

Sumdog

You will have a place value and 2x table challenge to be completed by next week.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Next week we will send home Sumdog codes in case the children have forgotten these from last year.

Our PE day is going to be FRIDAY.

Our BOOK change will be MONDAY.

You will get SPELLINGS on WEDNESDAYS and a quiz will be the following WEDNESDAY.

SumDog challenges will be set every FRIDAY.

We have our harvest festival in a couple of weeks. Please send in any spare tins and packets for our class collection. Thank you.

Have a great weekend.

Year 2 Team :) 

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