Spellings - s pronounced as /z/ (e.g. television/usual/pleasure) and Homophones plane/plain
Reading - read and record on Boom Reader
Maths - Doodle maths (some assignments have been added this week for them to have a go at)
Spellings:
Next week is a review and consolidation week of all the spelling rules we have looked at this half term.
the 'or' sound spelt a before l/ll/lk: wall, talk, calling, smaller, stalk
the 'u' sound spelt o: mother, brother, oven
the 'o' sound spelt a: wash, wand, squash, want
the 'er' sound spelt or: work, worm, world,
the 'or' sound spelt ar after w: war, warm, warden, warble
the 'n' sound spelt kn/gn - knight, knock, knot, gnome, gnat, gnaw,
Adding ment/ness to the end of adjectives: kindness, sadness, forgiveness, happiness, enjoyment, fulfillment, statement, basement, pavement.
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'Snow White and the Jazz Band' book, your banded book or a book from home.
Maths:
Please practice Doodle Maths 45 minutes weekly - this can be in smaller chunks over a few days!
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
This half term has flown by!
A fantastic trip to Woburn last week was enjoyed by all - we loved seeing all of the animals, including rhinos, elephants, tigers, lions and bears on the road safari, as well as a range of land and sea creatures including meerkats, sealions, penguins, red pandas and lots of others on the foot safari! The children were so well behaved and represented our school so well - we are incredibly proud of them.
This week we have enjoyed our 'Vision and Values day' on Tuesday, where we looked at our school vision quote "in faith we act, for nothing is impossible with God". We linked this with all of the Sustainable development goals we have covered this year and made posters to show how we can be our best selves to try and make the world a better place for all.
Wednesday-Friday we have absolutely loved celebrating Buckden School's Science Week!
On Wednesday we participated in Buckden School's Big Science Quiz - the children could answer all of the questions and give reasons for their answers, all children earned house points for their teams with super engagement and lots of scientific conversation!
We also looked in depth at what Botanists do as part of their jobs - we then became botanists and studied a range of flowers in real detail, producing some beautiful botanical illustrations with scientific labels and vocabulary. We looked at the Botanist Agnes Arber, researched her job role and learned lots of facts about her, including that she was one of the first female Botanists to become a member of several scientific societies, as well as earned various medals for her work and achievements!
On Thursday we completed a carousel of activities around school, visiting year 4 to learn about paper aeroplanes and year 6 to conduct a bottle flip experiment! We had great fun and it was exciting to meet and learn with other teachers around school!
On Friday we took part in the great poetry share, where we looked in detail at a range of flowers and used adjectives to describe them, before exploring rhythm and rhyme. We used all the skills we leaned to then create some wonderful poems all about flowers. The children loved writing them up in neat and we have created a class poetry anthology of flower poems to add to our classroom library!
If you are available to walk to/from the Church on Monday 2nd June between 9am and 10:30am, please let us know via our individual/year group emails.
Have a wonderful half term - please rest and relax before we come back and get ourselves ready for the challenge of Year 3! We will be focusing on developing our listening skills further, developing stamina in our writing and really refining our handwriting!
Best wishes,
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team
Spellings:
This week we have been learning that the letters 'ar' can make the /or/ sound in words such as:
war, warm, warden
We have also been learning that the letters 'or' can make the /er/ sounds in words such as:
work, worm, word, bookworm.
Please continue to practise the rules we have been learning over the last few weeks, including:
The 'j' sound using the letters g, ge and dge - germ, age, bridge
The 's' sound using the letters ce, c, se - fence, certain, circle, sense
Comparing words ending in y/ey - funny, happy, money, donkey,
The /or/ sound using the letters al, all and alk - always, call, chalk
Reading:
Please read every day and log your reading on Boom Reader.
You can read your school shared reading book 'Lost', your banded book or a book from home.
Maths:
Please practice either Numbots/TT Rockstars or Doodle Maths - 45 minutes per week of any/each of the apps to support our Maths learning.
You can also practise your 2, 3, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
What a week we have had in Year 2!
Despite being another four day week, we have managed once again to have a jam-packed week full of learning!
In English we have begun to explore the story's characters in more detail. We have produced a 'role on the wall' about Zeraffa's keeper, Atir, and this led to writing a character description. We looked at adding expanded noun phrases to our writing and encouraged the children to use a range of different elements of grammar and punctuation in their writing, including conjunctions to extend our sentences and suffixes to our words.
In Maths we have continued to look at time in more depth - the children have been practising telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes. Lots of children are secure telling the time past the hour and we have been working on securing time to the next hour.
In Science we have explored a range of seeds, and explored different ways of sorting and classifying them. The children thought about grouping the seeds by shape, size and colour, and we looked at how we could sort them based on what they would grow into - the children predicted some to be flowers, fruits and even vegetables!
We had a fantastic day on Thursday celebrating VE day. We learned all about how thousands of gave up their lives for our country, and we also talked about the impact that the war had on so many people with regard to being evacuated from their homes and had to ration their food for years, even after the war!
The children enjoyed our RE lesson on Tuesday where we explored the concept of being thankful for the gifts that we have been given. We explored the story of Jesus and the 10 Lepers, where only one man came back to say thankful for Jesus's kindness, and thought about the things that we should be thankful for.
We are very excited about our trip to Woburn next Friday - we will shortly be sending out some more information about what the children will need to bring on the day. If you have not booked on yet and your child wants to come, please make sure you do!
Have a lovely, sunny weekend!
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team
Spellings:
Next week is a review and consolidation week of all the spelling rules we have looked at this half term.
Adverbs
quickly, slowly, rudely, happily, lazily, horribly,
Irregular Plural Nouns
apple, benches, lashes, peaches, foxes, shelves
people, feet, sheep, teeth, women, children
Comparing j/d/ge/dge
jungle, bridge, edge, large, badger, hedgehog, intelligent
Comparing c/se/ce
ice, city, nice, fence, sense, once, rice, spicy
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'Anna's Homework' book, your banded book or a book from home.
Maths:
Please practice Numbots/TT Rockstars for 45 minutes weekly.
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Wow, is it really Friday again? We're not sure where the time is going at the moment but the children are continuing to work so hard.
Wyatt, Harriet and lots of the children have enjoyed Art this week where we have been learning how to draw a self portrait, including thinking about the proportions of our faces, where our body parts are and looking in detail at the features of our faces that help us to identify ourselves. George loved the gallery walk where we got to see everyone's finished portraits.
Heidi and Bode enjoyed Science this week where we learned about animals and how they adapt to suit their environment. This is called adaptation! The children knew loads of facts about a range of different animals and we even played a game where we had to memorise facts about camels and how they adapt to live in the desert - the children could remember lots of information!
Myra and Lennon loved our Englishh lesson on Thursday where we looked at a range of vocabulary to describe Rapunzel and we decided how relevant each word was to the character in the story.
Albert and loads of the children in the class loved making a potion on the field where we looked at how to describe the bubbling potions with a range of interesting ingredients inside!
Abby loved our Maths learning this week where we have continued to look at fractions, including recognising and finding 3/4 of shapes and amounts, and counting fractions to make one whole.
Caelan loved learning more about the Easter story and the days of Holy Week.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team
Spelling -
Rule - Compare: /se/ /c/ /ce/ e.g. sense, circle, science
CEW - Eye
Homophones: piece/peace
Maths - Numbots or TTrockstars 3 times a week
Reading - daily and logged on boom reader as much as you can
Spellings:
This week we have been learning about adding -s/-es to words to make them plural.For example:
shops, pots, hats, dogs, cats, flowers.
We learnt that when a word ends in ch, sh, s, ss, x, or z, we add -es instead.
For example:
fox - foxes, watch - watches, hutch - hutches.
We then looked at pluralising irregular nouns and the rules above do not apply!
Tooth - teeth, foot - feet, sheep - sheep, child - children, person - people.
Reading:
Please read daily with your adults and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'Invitation to a Party' book, your banded book or a book from home.
Please ensure you return your 'Invitation to a Party' book on Monday as we will be sending our our new class reader - Anna's Homework.
Maths:
Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
You can now access TT Rockstars using the TT Rockstars website - your login is the same as your Numbots Login. I have limited the times tables you can practise to your 2's, 5's and 10's. Have fun!
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables and lots of other maths games on Topmarks!
Hit the Button Game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
This week we have had a brilliant week learning a bit more about our new whole class reader, 'Rapunzel'. We have learnt a little bit about the main character, who is not your usual fairy princess. The children have read a few pages of the book, and we have stopped to write a character description.
The children have worked really hard to show us their fantastic writing skills, I have really enjoyed marking them over the weekend and seeing the progress in their writing!
In Maths this week, the children have been learning more about fractions - we have looked at 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3's of shapes and amounts, and have challenged the children to find the whole if they are only given a part!
In PE this week we have practised throwing beanbags at targets and throw, clap, catching the beanbags to develop our throwing skills. The children particularly enjoyed dance this week, where we introduced some words and asked them to use their bodies to express these. They loved 'creeping' and 'stepping' to the Pink Panther theme tune, using their bodies at different levels to portray the music in a variety of different ways. We are looking forward to developing these sequences and adding in some more movements next week!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team
Spellings:
This week we have been looking at adding -ly to adjectives to turn them into adverbs.
e.g.
gentle - gently
horrible - horribly
nice - nicely
happy - happily
Sometimes we remove the 'e' and add ly, sometimes we replace the 'y' with an 'i' before adding -ly, and sometimes we just add -ly to the end. Feel free to explore adding these endings to adjectives to create some adverbs.
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'An Invitation to a Party' book, your banded book or a book from home.
Maths:
Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on TopMarks - Hit the Button Game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Asia has enjoyed our English this week where we have introduced our new CLPE book - we had to predict what we thought the story might be about by only looking at a picture.
Roxie enjoyed our Science lesson this week where we created lifecycles out of play dough. We learned that frogspawn turns into tadpoles, which then grow arms and legs as they become froglets, before losing their tail when they fully form a frog.
Reuben and lots of other children loved presenting designing and presenting their Eco Heroes to the class.
Lennon has enjoyed our new topic in Maths, where we have started our new topic on Fractions.
George enjoyed sharing his book with the class on World Book Day, we also enjoyed our hot chocolate and biscuits whilst we listened to a range of stories.
We will be looking closely at our learning behaviour as a year group, in order to get through all of our very busy learning - by making sure that we are listening to instructions, not talking at the same time as others and making sure that we are completely focused during independent learning activities to ensure that we complete them to the best of our ability.
Have a lovely weekend.
The Year 2 Team
Spellings:
Please continue to consolidate the spellings we have been learning throughout the half term.
words starting with 'wh' making the 'w' sound - whistle, whale, whine.
words starting with 'wr' making the 'r' sound - wrist, wrong, wrinkle.
words with split digraph endings - cake, theme, bike, phone, tune.
adding suffixes to split digraph words (bake - baking) - drop the 'e' add the suffix.
words ending in -le: table, stable, apple
words ending in -el: level, label,
words ending in -il: until, evil, devil
words ending in -al: mental, royal, arrival
adding suffixes to words ending in -y:
happy - happier - happiest
cry - cries - cried
adding endings to single syllable words ending in a vowel/consonant:
pat - patted, fun - funny, spot - spotting.
Y2 Common Exception words: revise all Y2 common exception words.
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'The Dreams of Moxie Mouse and Cat Capone' book, your banded book or a book from home. We will be changing your books on the first Monday back after half term, and your child will receive their new shared reading book 'An Invitation to a Party'.
Maths:
Please practice Numbots 40 minutes weekly.
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
The children have been incredibly creative this week, in Art we have finished our final pieces of 'Frottage Collage' in which they drew and painted a water droplet, linked with our Global Learning Goal 'Clean Water and Sanitation'. They then added a range of 'frottage' through the form of rubbings around the classroom and school environment to add tone, tint and texture to their finished droplet.
In DT the children finished their final pieces of their mechanisms, they chose a character from our Class Reader 'The Lonely Beast' and decided whether they wanted to make their character into a Lever, using a pivot, or a slider, using a slot. The children's finished products looked fantastic and they were so proud to share their creations with you all today.
We loved having you all in this afternoon for Koinonia, the children were so excited to share their learning from this half term with you.
Thank you for all of your hard work and support, we look forward to welcoming the children back on the 24th February after a well earned rest.
Take care,
The Year 2 Team.
Spellings:
Next week is a review and consolidation week of all the spelling rules we have looked at this half term.
words ending in -le:
table, stable, apple
words ending in -el:
level, label,
words ending in -il:
until, evil, devil
words ending in -al:
mental, royal, arrival
adding suffixes to words ending in -y:
happy - happier - happiest
cry - cries - cried
adding endings to single syllable words ending in a vowel/consonant:
pat - patted, fun - funny, spot - spotting.
Y2 Common Exception words: could, would, should
Contraction: couldn't, shouldn't, wouldn't
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'The Dreams of Moxie Mouse and Cat Capone' book, your banded book or a book from home.
Maths:
Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Heidi and lots of other children really enjoyed Wednesday when we did RE for the whole day - we did crafts, - Bode enjoyed making a poster all about the importance of water in our lives and to Christians. Harriet loved that we had two assemblies and learned a song about respect! Asia loved the crafting too.
Kobe has loved our Maths learning this week where we have been learning about the 5 and 10 times tables, and learning how to divide by these numbers - as well as solving lots of problems involving the times tables.
Caelan has really enjoyed our English learning, where we used our own adjectives to write expanded noun phrases about a setting. He really enjoyed sharing his writing and up-levelling it to make it more interesting.
Lennon really enjoyed making our watercycle craft out of paper plates, fluff and lots of different coloured paper.
Myra enjoyed sharing what she knows in our spelling test!
George loved our PE this week, where we practised our passing and moving. We started to think about Netball as a game and will be practising shooting next week!
Hugo and lots of children have enjoyed the opportunity to play hockey at lunchtimes - they showed they could play in teams and had lots of fun!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team
Spellings:
New Y2 spellings: Adding endings to single-syllable words ending in a single consonant (e.g. pat/patted)
Please practise the following words:
patted
skipped
hopped
ripped
tripped
trapped
Y2 Common Exception words: could, would, should
Contraction: couldn't, shouldn't, wouldn't
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'The Dreams of Moxie Mouse and Cat Capone' book, your banded book or a book from home.
Maths:
Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
This week has been a very busy week in Year 2!
The children LOVED our Computing lesson where we learnt how to send and receive emails, as well as drawing pictures and adding attachments to our emails - we emailed Baby Bear, Anna and Doug about a range of different topics including Healthy Lunches, Celebrations and our favourite sports.
Some of the children enjoyed learning about how we get our clean water delivered to our houses. The water goes to a Water Treatment Centre where it goes through different stages to be filtered and cleaned properly.
The children also loved our English lessons this week where we have focussed on writing setting descriptions using expanded noun phrases and extending our sentences using conjunctions!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team
Spellings -
Rule -Words ending in: –y (cry)
CEW - any, many, busy, does
Special Skill - Contraction: doesn’t
Reading -
Read your books and record them on Boom Reader
Maths -
Do Numbots
