Year 2 Blog Friday 24th November 2023

Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 11:11am

Year 2 had a wonderful time at the library. The librarian read three Christmas stories and the children got to vote for their favourite, there was a clear winner! They also made Christmas cards and explored the library, choosing books that they would like to borrow. Everyone had lovely manners and were very respectful. In English, we did a drama workshop in the hall with Mrs Wood. We have a lot of budding actors and actresses and it was lovely to see everyone joining in with confidence and being creative. The nativity play is going to be amazing this year! In Maths, we have started our new topic - graphs, charts and tables. The children have been reading, understanding and answering questions about pictograms and block charts. It has been RSHE week, we learnt about communities, how to keep safe and meeting God in our community. In History, the children completed The Great Fire of London by making a timeline (chronological order) of everything they have learnt. In Art, we learnt about printing and produced some lovely prints. The count down to Christmas is definitely starting, learning Christmas songs, practising for the Nativity play and getting ready for all the Christmas fun.

Forest School

This week we cooked bread on a stick. We remembered our rules about how to keep safe around the fire. Mrs Corbett had already made the dough out of flour, sugar and water. We had to find a suitable stick that was long enough and strong enough to hold the dough. We rolled our ball of dough into a long sausage shape and wrapped it securly around our stick. We cooked the bread in the embers of the fire. We noticed it changed colour as it was cooking. We had to be patient.When it was cooked we put jam, chocolate spread or butter on it. It was delicious!

All of us had a go at the cooking and some of us had an extra session. We chose our own learning in the nature area.

Reading

In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an adult. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

We had a great time at the library. Everyone, spotted books that they would like to borrow. Maybe, you could visit the library again and borrow the books you saw.

Reading books are changed every Monday. However, if you need to change a book another time, we will change it as needed.

Please 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.

Reading resources:

Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled eBooks to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.

Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and login. Explore the site and enjoy reading 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 Wednesday. A sheet will go home every Wednesday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but also to call the words out and spell them out loud using the letter sounds or names. Other ideas include breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (people). You could look for words within words (whole)or think of your own ways to remember the word for example, spell it aloud using a tune or song.

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

This week’s spellings are (22.11.23 – 29.11.23):

could                     many

would                    clothes 

should                   busy

whole                    people

any                       water

Maths

At home, count forwards and backwards in 3s to 36. Start at different numbers each time. For example, start counting forwards from 12 or backwards from 30. Look at how this relates to the 3x table.

Practise 2-, 5-, 10- and 3-times tables on a game called Hit the Button. Follow this link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

You will have a graphs, charts and tables challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Reminders:

Santa Dash - wear Santa's hat, beard or coat on Monday 11th December. Fill in your sponsor form and bring it back to school.

Raffle tickets, £1 a ticket or £5 a booklet.

Year 2 are making a 'yellow' class hamper. If you have anything yellow to donate, please bring it in to school.

Have a great weekend.

Year 2 Team.