Year 2 Blog- Friday 6th December

Date: 5th Dec 2024 @ 11:41am

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 (13.12.24):

many      clothes        busy         people      water

again      half      money       Mr      Mrs

Sumdog: Complete the money challenge. 

Counting: At home, count in 2's, 5's, 10's and 3's. You could play the follow me game that we learnt in class.

The children still need to spend more time learning their doubles and halves. For example, double 8 is 16, double 12 is 24 or half of 18 is 9, half of 30 is 15.

Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and practise doubling and halving.

You could also practise your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.

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

English

We continued reading our novel, The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine. In the book the characters have to wash a rabbit so we read some instructions on how to clean a pet rabbit. The children found out about the key features of instructional writing. We discussed the use of numbered points, pictures, time connectives and bossy verbs.They planned their own set of instructions and will be writing them next week.

Maths

This week we have been learning about money. We discussed the value of all the coins. We made amounts using Base 10 equipment and used this to calculate the answer when adding amounts together.

Science

We learnt about the importance of exercise. We carried out an investigation to measure the effect of exercise on our heart rate.

PSHE

We listened to a stoey about acts of kindness. We discussed acts of kindness and drew a picture of some of them.

Art

We have made some wonderful Christmas cards for the Booths competition.

The children used tape to design and decorate a tree.

Winners will be revealed at Golden Assembly.

My Happy Mind

Year 2 have finished their first topic - Meet Your Brain.

We recapped our learning, thinking about our favourite bits and what we will try to do more of so we can be at our best for learning and growing. A lot of the class said they would like to do more happy breathing.

RE

We read a piece of scripture from Luke's Gospel about the Annunciation and birth of John the Baptist. The children retold the story beautifully and enjoyed learning that John the Baptist and Jesus were cousins.

This week we have been involved in lots of rehearsals for our Nativity.

We are performing it in Church on Tuesday 10th December at 2pm and 6.30pm.