Year 2 Blog Friday 20th September 2024

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 3:29pm

Year 2 have had another fantastic week, filled with lots of interesting and enjoyable learning. 

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 Friday (27.09.24):

house, school,once, come,they,

by,here,friend, go, be

Sumdog: Complete the 'one more/less than' challenge.

English

We have continued our learning through the story of Burglar Bill. He wrote us all a letter. As they were all different, they told us lots of information. We used this information to write a character description of him. We also planned an alternative ending to the story and wrote it. We have been using connecting words and adjectives to make our writing even better.

In handwriting we have been learning how to form our letters with lead-ins.

                                                                                                                                 Phonics

We have been revising oo as in zoo and ew as in brew and y as in happy.

Maths

The children have been learning how to work out one more/less than and ten more/less than a given number. We have also been comparing two numbers and deciding which is the greatest or which is the least.

R.E

We re-read the story of Noah's Ark, focusing on the rainbow being a sign of God's promise (covenant) never to send another flood again. The children made their own rainbows and Noah's Ark puppets.

History

Year 2 are thoroughly enjoying learning about The Great Fire of London. We compared London today with London back in 1666 and learnt where the fire started and how it spread so quickly.

Geography

The children have already learnt most of the continents and oceans of the world and really enjoyed looking at their location on the map.

Forest School

We went on a scavenger hunt to find natural objects. We then displayed them on a log-we showed lots of creativity. We then had time for our own learning-we invented games, found plenty of apples, did some wood carving with stones, tried to make a whistle, spotted patterns in the tree stumps, found creatures, problem-solved and practised balancing.

PLEASE ASK YOUR CHILD TO PUT THEIR READING BOOKS IN THE RED BOX ON MRS DEIGHTON'S TABLE WHEN THEY  HAVE ALL BEEN READ. THANK YOU.