Year 2 Home Practice Friday 11th March 2022

Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 12:54pm

This week’s highlight was our trip to ‘Bring Yer wellies’. The children had a fantastic time and learnt so much. The day was packed with activities like planting herbs, den building, playing on the sand beach and watching our model Tudor Houses burn, as though it was the real Great Fire of London! Year 2 had lovely manners and listened so well, a real credit to the school. In Maths, we have been focusing on arithmetic. In English, the children have written letters to Grandad about the pet dragon and looked at commas. They have also written a crime report about one of the villains in a traditional tale of their choice. Our D.T. day was busy but very productive. The Tudor Houses looked amazing, the children did so well designing and building them. What an exciting week!!

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 practise 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. Other ideas include breaking the words up and writing them down in different colours (multiply) or think of your own ways to remember the word for example, spell it aloud using a tune or song.

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

This week’s spellings are, the sound ‘igh’ spelt with a ‘-y’:

cry                      sly

fly                      shy 

dry                     terrify

try                      sky

reply                    multiply

Maths

At home, count forwards and backwards in 10s. Start at different numbers each time. For example, start counting forwards from 24 or backwards from 39. See if you can count past 100!

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 an addition challenge on Sumdog to complete by next Friday.

Sumdog

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Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.