Year 2 Friday 18th March 2022

Date: 18th Mar 2022 @ 3:44pm

Another great week for Year 2, Freddy Fit came to school and the children did exercises to upbeat/loud music. They learnt about team work and being healthy, there was a lot of fun and laughter. We also voted for our favourite books in the Lancashire Brilliant Book Awards. The winner was… Nappy The Pirate Baby. Well done to all the children who have been reading and enjoying these books, if you have not read one of the books yet, you will still get a chance to bring one home. In English, the children have completed/edited their newspaper reports and we will be ready to start our new novel very soon. They have also written some fantastic dragon stories and poems. We are learning about addition and subtraction in Maths, thinking about using lines and dots (tens and ones) and partitioning numbers to add/subtract them. For Science, we did a live lesson on minibeasts. The children enjoyed looking at the different habitats and learning new things about predatory beetles and pollinators. The tulips that the children drew and painted during our art lesson were extremely good. Keep up the great work year 2.

Reading

In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an adult or older sibling. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

You could write down these new words in a word book and find out what they mean. It is amazing to see the list grow, something to be very proud of, especially when children realise how many more words they understand and can use!

Please 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.

Reading books are changed every Monday and sent home on Tuesday. However, if you need to change a book another 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. A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practice only and can be kept with you.

It is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet, but also to call the words out and spell them out loud using the letter sounds or names. Learn them in a different order, not just how they appear on the list below.

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

This week’s spellings: adding ‘ies’ to words ending in ‘y’.

flies                      carries

tries                      cries 

replies                   dries

copies                    marries

babies                   families

Maths

At home, count forwards and backwards in halves. For example, 0, ½, 1, 1 ½, 2, 2 ½, 3 and so on. You can play the ‘follow me’ game that we played in class, taking turns to say each whole number and fraction.

Practise 2-, 5-, 10- and 3-times tables on a game called Hit the Button. Follow this link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

You will have a true or false addition challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.