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 continues to be a big focus this half term 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.

This week!

This week we have been building up to a big write of our recount to Woburn Safari Park! The children have worked really hard to showcase all of the skills they have learned this year and we are so proud of their work!

We have enjoyed learning about the different types of buildings in the village, and have put them on a timeline to show the differences and the changes in features. We will be walking around the village, looking for Tudor, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian buildings!

The children have been learning about turns, position and direction in our Maths learning, which we will continue to look at next week. The children can accurately make a quarter, half, three quarter and full turn in both clockwise and anticlockwise direction!

The weather is due to be even warmer next week, so please make sure that your child comes into school with plenty of water, a sun hat, sun glasses and some suncream so that they can reapply throughout the day. We will encourage the children to stay in the shade and minimise their time outside in the sunshine during the warmest parts of the day!

Have a lovely sunny weekend.

The Year 2 Team