Year 2 Blog Friday 2nd December 2022

Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 3:59pm

Another fabulous week in Year 2 and it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, especially after our Santa Dash this afternoon and all the effort the children are putting into our Nativity rehearsals. In English, we wrote letters to Father Christmas, using neat handwriting, capital letters and full stops, joining words and exciting vocabulary. In Maths, we learnt about block graphs, pictograms, tables and tally charts. The children are getting very good at understanding the data and answering questions. We read the story of the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary and thought about what they said to each other. In French this week, Year 2 recapped some animal words through a song, repetition of vocabulary with actions and a game. They also managed to say their own sentences about pets for the first time! Tres impressionant, Y2! In Art, we designed Christmas Trees in the style of Mondrian, next week we will paint them. This week’s highlight was the trip to the library, the children had a great time listening to a story, searching for books and doing a craft activity, well done everyone.

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.

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 - 14.11.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or finished the book. MG.

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 (09.12.22). 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 09.12.22.

This week’s spellings:

chew             argue

grew              suit    

huge              fruit

cute              jumped

untrue           stopped

Maths

At home, count in 3’s forwards and backwards. Write it down and spot any patterns that help you remember. When we count in 3’s, the numbers we say are actually the 3x table.

You will have a 2x, 5x, 10x and 3x tables and a tables and tally chart challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 09.12.22.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Please sing Nativity songs at home with the actions.

Nativity Performances Tuesday 6^th December at 2pm and 6.30pm.

Have a look at the gallery section, you will see some Santa Dash and Library Trip photos.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.