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:

Miss Freeman’s class will have until Tuesday to practise their spellings as they came out late this week. Mrs Jayne’s class will have their test as usual on Monday.

This week!

Jonah and Autumn have enjoyed English this week where we have been discussing whether or not the Pasha should send Zeraffa, the giraffe, from her habitat all the way to Paris. We gave reasons for and against sending the giraffe, and the children wrote a letter giving their reasons and their final opinion.

William, Ollie and lots of children have enjoyed our Maths this week, where we have looked at the different coins we use, practised counting coins and then used a range of different coins to make different amounts!

Teddy enjoyed setting up his plant investigation in Science this week - the children had to decide what conditions they would like to grow their cress in. Teddy chose to grow his cress in water!

Jude and Jonathan enjoyed learning the recorders today - the children learned the B and A notes. We will be using these notes along with G to learn a song with Mrs Routledge!

Bertie has enjoyed our spellings this week, the children have been practising the ‘o’ phoneme spelt with an ‘a’ in words like watch, wasp and wallet, and the ‘u’ phoneme spelt with an ‘o’ in words like love, brother, another.

Ruby, Grace, Charlie, Darcie and so many children really enjoyed our DT learning this week. We learned new skills – threading a needle, tying knots and even practised our running stitch. Miss Freeman was so surprised and very impressed by the number of children who were already skilled sewers! Darcie thought it was really calming and quiet and enjoyed this time.

Sophie has enjoyed learning about the Workhouses and locating them on a local map. We found out that there was one in Eaton Ford, St Neots, just a few miles down the road. We talked about what problems were solved through building Workhouses. Poor people, ill people, elderly people and children were taken off the streets and supported through the Workhouse movement.

Sonny and Amelia have enjoyed our Art this week where we sketched parts of Workhouse buildings using our hatching and cross-hatching skills to add shading. Ella also enjoyed Art this week, where we did a practise sketch of St Neots Workhouse, looking closely at shapes and details so that they were accurate. 

Phoebe and Martha enjoyed Music this week where we have continued to practise our skills playing the recorder. We have begun to learn some notes and we will be working towards learning a song!

Sunny has enjoyed sketching club this week where we learned how to draw from a one-point perspective, starting at a vanishing point, drawing perspective lines and then drawing a corridor and adding details using horizontal and vertical lines.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team