Year 2 Blog Friday 23.06.23

Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 11:54am

Wow, year 2 had so much fun at the ‘Tough Kidda’ event this afternoon. Thank you to everyone who brought sponsorship money into school. Don’t worry if you forgot, it is still possible to bring it in next week. In English, the children wrote some amazing adventure stories, using paragraphs. Their handwriting was also extremely neat and well presented. Mrs Wood loved reading them and seeing how much everyone has progressed since the beginning of the year. In Maths, we did addition and subtraction with exchange using lines and dots as tens and ones. In Re, we learnt about Islam and how Muslims pray. The children drew some beautiful prayer mats. During History, we labelled the parts of a castle. This will help when we go on our trip to Skipton Castle next Thursday. In Computing, we worked on coding and had the opportunity to play some of the games the Year 3 class made themselves. In French, we continued our French phonics by looking at the numbers 6 to 10. Then we learnt how to say some ice cream flavours. We will reinforce this new vocabulary next week. Music was especially exciting as the children have been given their own ocarina to learn to play.

Outdoor Learning and Forest School

For our first session we used lots of techniques, skills and knowledge which we have learned over the year to make a butterfly. We joined sticks or lolly sticks together using pipe cleaners, wire or tape. We then attached pipe cleaners and beads to create the antenna and body of the butterfly. Then we chose our wool to make the wings. Great perseverance was shown. Some of us also made different animals, forest eyes and bracelets-lovely creativity and imagination.

For our second session we went into the nature area. We built dens, always trying hard to improve on our previous attempts. There was more equipment in the mud kitchen so some of us used that. We also played on the rope swings from last week.

Thanks for the questionairres which have been returned this week.

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

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (30.06.23). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 30.06.23.

This week’s spellings:

Words ending ‘– tion’. Including two words from the Year 1/2 spelling list.

nation               section

motion              fraction

lotion                position

action               any

fiction              many

Maths

Next week for our times tables quiz (Friday 30.06.23) we will be learning the division facts for the 3x table in order.

Count in 3’s forwards and backwards, see how quickly you can go, but it must still be accurate. Chant/sing the division facts for the x3 table. Ask an adult to quiz you on them in order. Try playing ‘Hit The Button’ game from the maths games listed below.

You will have a multiplication and division by 3 challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 30.06.23.

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

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.