Year 2 Blog Friday 7th October 2022

Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 3:59pm

Year 2 have been great this week, full of enthusiasm and joy for learning. They really are becoming super learners! In English, we have moved on to non-fiction writing. We are looking at information texts and letters. The children wrote sentences that were made-up (fiction) and fact (non-fiction). They are trying hard to always sit their letters on the line and do neat handwriting with lead-ins. We will be writing our own letters and information texts about pets. In Maths, the children have been measuring length and weight (mass). They learnt about metres and centimetres, measuring objects/lines with rulers, some of them even got the trundle wheels out to measure the playground. Everyone enjoyed using the balance scales to measure objects around the classroom. In Art, we used collage to create Pablo Picasso style portraits. In Geography the children located the seven continents on a map and learned facts about each one. We love to sing the continents song! We looked at microhabitats during our Science lesson. Outdoor learning has been very popular. Year 2 will be doing this every week so please could your child always have a coat and a pair of wellies that can be kept in school.

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.

You could find the meaning of new words by looking them up in a dictionary. A great skill for your child to learn. We will be doing this in class soon.

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 - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or good sounding out of tricky words or struggled with the word – because/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 (14.10.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

It will really help your children’s writing if they can spell the common words they use frequently in class. Attached are the Year 1 and 2 common exception words. Knowing sounds (phonics) will not help with these words, they just need to know them by memory/sight. Learning five or six of these words at a time will really help. Write them down and pin them up on the fridge or wall. We work on these in class as well and the children are tested (quiz) on them before Christmas.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by next Friday 14.10.22.

This week’s spellings:

ride                flute

white              cube   

stone              cute

home               again

rule                 thought

Maths

At home, count to 100 forwards and backwards. Ask questions like, what is one/two/five or ten more/less than_? The blank _ could be any number up to 50 or 100. This will help with next week’s learning on addition and subtraction.

You will have a 5x and 10x tables, and another measure challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday 14.10.22.

Sumdog

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It's our Harvest celebration next week and we would appreciate some tins or packets of food for our collection, which will be donated to the Penwortham foodbank.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.

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