Year 2 Blog Friday 9th June 2023

Date: 9th Jun 2023 @ 3:45pm

A great week in Year 2, made all the better with the sun shining and more opportunities to be outside. The children are working so hard and are very positive and happy about their learning. They are beginning to look ready for Year3!! On Monday morning, we were very lucky to take part in a story Yoga session. The children thoroughly enjoyed it and did good stretching and poses. We have been doing a lot of dancing in preparation for ‘Dance from the Heart’ which will be taking place next Thursday. Come along and join in, the children would love to show you their great moves. In English, we have been focusing on poetry, suffixes and joined handwriting. In Maths, we have finished our 2-D/3-D shape topic and will be moving on to place value. I have seen a great improvement in everyone’s arithmetic work, a huge well done. During PE, the children spent time learning to strike the ball with a bat and played mini rounders games.  In French, we began to put our new phonics learning to use by trying to read and write some colour words, thinking about the sounds in the words. Then we learnt some words for means of transport. We repeated a sentence about how we come to school. For example, Je vais a l'ecole en voiture. Then we tried to join in with the wheels on the bus in French! It was lovely to watch and cheer on the Year 5’s at their Sports Day.

Forest School and Outdoor Learning

We learnt how to safely use a new tool to make a hole in a wood disc. We also did some threading and tied knots to make a decoration. Mrs Corbett showed us how she had made a mobile but we had our own great ideas as well. The wood was quite hard so we had to really persevere to make the hole.

In our other session we used the logs and branches to make dens,obstacle courses, ladders and even some rope swings! Some of us climbed trees. Our teamwork is really good and our imaginations know no bounds!We found spiders and slugs too.

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.

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 (16.06.23). 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 16.06.23.

This week’s spellings:

Adding the suffix ‘ly’. Including two words from the Year 1/2 spelling list.

softly              loudly

firstly             happily 

wisely              lazily

nicely               could

slowly               should

Maths

Next week for our times tables quiz (Friday 16.06.23) we will be learning the 3x table in order. A x3 tables sheet has been sent home to help with this.

Count in 3’s forwards and backwards, see how quickly you can go, but it must still be accurate. Play the ‘follow me game’ – one person says ‘3’ the next person says ‘6’ and so on. Chant/sing the x3 table. Ask an adult to quiz you on them in order. Try playing ‘Hit The Button’ game from the maths games listed below.

You will have a 3x table and place value challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 16.06.23.

Here are some links to other maths games/apps the children can play to help them learn their number facts.

Topmarks.co.uk also have and English section for phonics/spellings games. If you explore the site you will find lots of different games that are relevant to Year 2.

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

https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/1-minute-maths

(I believe this app is free to download.)

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

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/multiplication-and-division

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.