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:

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

This week!

Nigel and lots of the children have enjoyed break the rules day today! We have had some crazy blue and green hair, ties around heads, lots of cuddles with our teddies and the girls have enjoyed having their hair down!

Dougie, Sunny, Sonny and Sophie have loved learning to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes. We’ve done lots of chanting, counting in 5s up to 60 to tell the time to the minutes past, and then we’ve even challenged ourselves to stop at 30 and count back to 0 to tell the time to the nearest five minutes ‘to’ the hour! The children have worked so hard and been so resilient, we are so proud of their learning.

Phoebe and Bertie have enjoyed getting to know our new CLPE book, ‘Zeraffa Giraffa’! We began the week with a story bag and some items which the children had to predict or guess what they thought the story might be about. The children’s predictions were interesting and very close to the real story!

Seb and Abel loved Science this week where we discussed our prior knowledge of plants, what they need to survive and thrive, and we did some observational drawings of tomato slices, labelling them accurately using rulers.

Jonah and Hugo enjoyed our PE yesterday where we practised our throwing and catching skills, both with a partner and on our own.

Sophie has enjoyed the introduction to our Global Learning Goal ‘No Poverty’. We discussed what Poverty is and what it might look like. We will be delving deeper into this in our History and Geography learning as the term goes on!

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team