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.

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:

Please continue to practise your spellings over the bank holiday weekend. You will have your test on Tuesday morning, and receive your new spellings on Tuesday to take home and practise.

This week!

Jonah has enjoyed English this week where we have tapped into ‘character’, looking in particular at Atir – the keeper of Zeraffa. The children decided he was a kind man, for caring for a baby giraffe, and a brave man, for travelling all the way from Egypt to France on a long, dangerous journey!

Charlie and lots of children have enjoyed our Maths this week, where we have finished looking at coins, and looked back at addition and subtraction using our place value grids to help us. We began looking at measurement on Friday, and the children were experts at using their rulers to measure lines in centimetres! We also thought about what else we can measure, and discussed things like weight, temperature and the amount of water that could fit in a bottle! We will delve into this more next week.

The children have particularly enjoyed our History this week, where we began learning about life in the Workhouse in the Victorian period – the children decided that life was not very fun back in those days, especially when you had to sleep in a dormitory with up to 20 other children, share a bed with a stranger and wee in a pale, as well as only see your family for 30 minutes on a Sunday! We look forward to turning our notes into a Fact File which we hope to share with you soon!

The children have continued to enjoy Music this week where we have practised our skills playing the recorder. We have begun to learn some notes and we will be working towards learning a song!

Don't forget! Next week is class photo day - Year 2 photographs will be taken on the Wednesday. 

Have a lovely long weekend.

The Year 2 Team