Year 2 Home Practice Friday 1st July 2022

Date: 30th Jun 2022 @ 7:39pm

A great week of learning Year 2, well done to everyone for their lovely manners, fantastic listening and hard work. There were so many people on gold and there are lots of house points on the chart! In English, we have done plenty of writing, some super diaries and a dragon story. The children used excellent vocabulary and punctuation, there handwriting is so neat now! We have moved to addition and subtraction again in Maths. Year 2 are getting very good at using lines and dots (tens and ones) to add/subtract two 2-digit numbers with an exchange. The children did an investigation on hand size in Science. They came to good conclusions and really enjoyed comparing hand sizes. In RE, we started our new topic – Treasures. The children talked about their own special treasures and made/decorated a treasure box. Everyone has now completed their wild weaving, they were beautiful.  In French, the children listened to a song to see if they could understand the animal words, looking at the -on sound in the words. Then they learned some words to do with the beach and practised them in a game. It was lovely to see the children having fun and dancing at the disco.

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 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 (08.07.22). 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 is useful to write the words down on the spelling sheet and learn them by calling them out loud.

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

This week’s spellings:

word                 worst

work                 war   

worm                warm

world                towards

worth                ward

Maths

At home, work on your number facts to 20 (16 + 4 = 20, 11 + 9 = 20). These can also be number facts for numbers within 20. For example, 7 + 9 = 16, 8 + 8 = 16 or 5 + 11 = 16. Try writing then in a systematic order. We have done this in class.  

You will have a 2x, 5x, 10x, 3x and 4x tables and addition/subtraction to 100 challenges to complete by next Friday on Sumdog.

Sumdog

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Well done to these children in Golden Assembly:

Star – Zachary Mc

Bookworm – Willow

Writer – Florence and Dominic

Mathematician - Darcey

Super Learner – Bella

Special Mentions – Ebba and Leo H

Daily Miler – Eliza

Have a lovely weekend.

Year 2 Team.