Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader or in your child’s reading diary. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week at home. If you would like a paper reading diary to record your reading at home, please let us know and we can provide one for you.

We have sent home your child with a new class reader ‘Bea’s Pumpkin’. As we will not be reading this in school, we would appreciate if you could read this with your child over the Easter holidays. We look forward to hearing their thoughts when they return!

Handwriting:

Any opportunity to practise writing your letters using our cursive script at home would greatly help with developing and improving your child’s handwriting. We are focusing on ensuring our small letters are small, our tall letters are tall (and long) and that they are consistent in size.

Handwriting will be a big focus after the Easter holidays, with a set session daily to develop fine motor skills and reteach the orientation of each letter, both capital and lowercase.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – fifteen minutes every day will help your child stay in the Green Zone! We will set an assignment for your child to do each Friday, to be completed by the following Friday.

If you would like to practise other areas of Maths over the holidays, any addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (2, 5 and 10x tables) would benefit your child greatly.

Spellings:

There will be no spellings over the half term – enjoy the break!

This week!

What a whirlwind week we’ve had!

The children enjoyed Art where they finished their self-portraits. The children used guidelines to ensure their facial features were in proportion, used their knowledge and skills of shape and sketching to draw these features and finally added finer details such as freckles, beauty marks and hair to their portraits to complete them. They look fantastic!

The children also enjoyed DT this week where they used their knowledge of levers, sliders and pivots, and their skills of drawing, cutting and joining materials to create a poster of the Titanic sailing and hitting the iceberg. Some children even used a pivot to show the Titanic sinking into the water! We hope you enjoy their finished products as they have brought them home with them.

The children thoroughly enjoyed writing their instruction texts to catch the Witch from our CLPE book, Rapunzel. The children could use bossy verbs, time conjunctions, numbered steps and clear, simple instructions to ensure that the reader would be able to follow their instructions in order to create their traps.

In Maths we have recapped addition and subtraction using place value grids and visual representations to support our workings. We will continue to practise these skills in our arithmetic sessions after the Easter holiday to consolidate our understanding of regrouping and decomposing numbers when adding and subtracting.

The children have worked so hard and we hope that you all have a well-deserved Easter break, full of fun, family time and lots of chocolate!

Happy Easter!

The Year 2 Team