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.

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.

Spellings:

We will be sending home a list of words for your child to practise at home each Tuesday. Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rule, the different ways of spelling the ‘j’ sound, including j, g, ge and dge.

This week!

Nigel and Ruby have enjoyed learning our new spelling rule this week in our spelling sessions. It has been quite a challenge to work out where we need to use a j and a g, but we are super confident that when the ‘j’ sound is at the end, we need to use ge and dge.

Martha and Hugo have enjoyed our Maths learning this week where we have mastered the fraction! We know that the bottom number (the denominator) tells us how many parts the whole has been split into, and the top number (the numerator) tells us how many of those parts we have. The children can confidently find ½, 1/3, ¼ and even 2/4 and ¾ of shapes and amounts, and some children even noticed the equivalence between 2/4 and ½! Well done, you’ve all worked so hard on this, this week!

Sunny and Grace have enjoyed PE this week, where we learned the movements of an Irish Jig! We are looking forward to learning some more next week, and comparing it with last weeks Waltz.

Charlie enjoyed our Geography learning this week where the children mapped out the journey of the Titanic – we looked at where it began it’s Maiden Voyage, where the cruiser was supposed to travel to and where the disaster took place, which resulted in the sinking of the ‘Unsinkable Ship’!

Sonny, Dougie, Ollie and the whole class have really enjoyed learning more about the Titanic in our History learning this week – we looked at the similarities and differences between the three classes and discovered that the majority of people who died were in the Third Class. We discussed whether this was fair, and if the ship showed equality.

Sophie and lots of the children have enjoyed showing us their understanding of lots of different areas of the curriculum in our PixL assessments this week and we are incredibly proud of their resilience.

Abel has enjoyed Science this week where we have been continuing to look at the life cycles of animals including humans. The children could order from babies to elderly and could talk about their different needs.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team