Year 2 Blog Friday 9th December 2022

Date: 9th Dec 2022 @ 4:20pm

A really magical week in Year 2, well done to everyone. The Nativity was amazing and the children did excellent singing and acting. We have been busy doing Christmas crafts during Art. In English, the children re-told a story from the perspective of a toy robot. They learnt to use the first person (I, me and myself). In Maths, we have moved on to the fractions topic. We looked at halves and quarters and folded a square to demonstrate this. In French, we listened to the legend of St Nicholas, the patron saint of children. He brings treats to many European children who leave their shoes out for him on the 6^th December. We made a Christmas card with some shoes on to remind us of the story. During Forest School, the children made some great nature Christmas decorations.

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.

We will not issue school reading books over the Christmas Holiday, so you can enjoy any books you have at home, get for Christmas or you may even want to visit the library.

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

Spelling

There will be no spellings to learn for next week.

However, you will have a Sumdog challenge on common words to complete by next Friday 16.12.22.

You could also have a look at your Year 1/2 common exception word list.

Maths

At home, count forwards and backwards in halves. For example, one half, two halves, three halves, four halves, five halves etc. We did this in class so well. Notice when you have a whole (two halves).

You will have a 2x, 5x, 10x and 3x tables and a fractions (finding halves) challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 16.12.22.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Please send book bags in for collection next week. We will hold on to them over Christmas.

Remember, Wednesday is Christmas jumper/dinner/post day.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.