Year 2 Blog Friday 18th October 2024

Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 11:42am

Home Practice

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.

Spelling: Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Thursday (24.10.24):

Any words from all the previous weeks spellings that you are not sure of. 

Sumdog: Complete the 'Properties of 2-D and 3-D Shapes' challenge. 

Counting: At home, count in 2's, 5's and 10's forwards and backwards. See how they relate to the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and practise those times tables.

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

English

This week we read our owl non chronogical reports to children in Reception, Year 3 and Year 4. We listened to the story of pumpkin soup and identified the contractions such as it's, didn't, I'll and don't. We also investigated noun phrases such as 'old white cabin'. We used our senses and imaginations to write noun phrases about duck's kitchen.We will be continuing with this learning next week.

Phonics

We revised ie as in pie and i-e as in wide.

Maths

The children have been learning about the names and properties of 2-D and 3-D shapes. We then moved onto measuring length, capacity and mass. The class used metre sticks and rulers to estimate and measure different objects around the classroom.

RE

Next week, we will continue learning about Baptism. It would be great if you could talk to your child about their own Baptism and maybe send some photographs (not precious ones) into school. We will use them to further discuss what happens at a Baptism and the importance of being part of the Church family.

The children had a go at drawing some Halloween pictures by following an artist's instructions.

The results were spooky and fabulous!

History

Year 2 read small extracts from the diary of Samuel Pepys and answered questions about what happened during the fire. They found it interesting that Samuel Pepys buried his precious cheese and wine to stop it from burning in the fire!

PSHE

We had a circle time. The theme was' don't do that'. We talked about strategies we could use and things we could say if someone was doing something we didn't like.

Forest School

This week we went out as a group all afternoon. 

We had a discussion about how to keep safe around the fire. We invented our own concoctions from, crumpets, bread, fruit loaf, hot dogs, cheese, pitta bread and wraps. We then toasted them on the fire-delicious!

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