Year 2 Blog- Friday 7th February

Date: 6th Feb 2025 @ 11:31am

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 (14.02.25):

November    December   Monday   Tuesday   Wednesday  Thursday   Friday   Saturday   Sunday                 

Sumdog: Complete the 'Addition and Subtraction Problems' challenge. 

Counting: Play the two-digit target game below and work on your place value skills.

https://nrich.maths.org/problems/two-digit-targets 

Follow the link below to play 'Hit The Button' and do a bit more practise on your 2, 5, 10 and 3 times tables.

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

Recently, the children explored some of the interactive games on top mark maths.

If they would like to play at home, follow the link below.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting 

English

This week we started learning throught a new book, "The Magic Finger" by Roald Dahl.

We read and watched the first part of the story and wrote a prediction.

We also wrote some instructions about how to build a nest like the one the Gregg family built in the story.

We are trying so hard to make our writing look beautiful on the page.

SPaG

The children learned how to change an adjective into an adverb by adding 'ly'. For example, slow - slowly or helpful - helpfully.

Maths

We have completed the addition and subtraction topic and moved on to multiplication.

The children learnt how to find the difference between numbers.

We have also been learning about repeated addition, arrays and how these relate to multiplication.

PSHE

 We have been learning that there are times when people are trying to be kind to us and may touch us,

but we might not like or want this, e.g. when a friend gives us a hug but they squeeze us so tight that it hurts.

They might think it’s fun, but for us, it’s not - because it hurts. 

Science

We learnt about two inventors,John Dunlop and John McAdam.

Forest School

We planted the bulbs we looked at in our Science lesson last week. We also made a forest eye.

This is good for practising our knots and it also develops our fine motor skills.

P.E

Year 2 performed some excellent sequences on the large apparatus.

In their sequences they included a clear start, travel, balance, jump, roll and finish.

Geography

We discussed the weather and seasons and identified which clothes were appropriate for the different weather types.

The children also wrote about their favourite weather and explained why they liked it.