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 spellings – a selection of Year 2 Common Exception Words.

This week!

Amelia, Martha and Hugo have enjoyed History this week where we learned all about the history of the toilet! We learned that toilets have changed lots over time, they now have flush and people don’t have to go outside at night!

Ollie has enjoyed Maths this week where we have recapped telling the time to the hour and to the half hour, and begun to explore a range of 3D shapes, looking at their names and their properties.

Sunny has enjoyed reading this week, lots of the children have been inspired by the Roald Dahl books we have been looking at and are taking the time to read them at home!

Jonah has enjoyed our three-minute talks this week – Seb gave a fabulous talk on his hobby playing football, and Sunny told us all about his trip to see Hercules at the Theatre in London, Drury Lane!

Phoebe and Dougie have enjoyed writing our newspaper reports in our English learning. The children could summarise the main event from the book, ‘The Lonely Beast’, they could write an interesting headline and talk about the key events from the story. Some of the children even managed to include a quote in speech marks!

Have a lovely half term and a well deserved break.

The Year 2 Team

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, adding suffixes to words ending in the –y sound (cry, fly, shy) where we drop the y and add an i when adding s, ed, but not when adding er, est and ing.

This week!

Ruby has enjoyed our RE learning this week, where we have learned about Ramadan, a time of year where Muslims fast during the day and consider those who are less fortunate than us.

Sonny has enjoyed

Charlie and Hugo have enjoyed Maths this week, where we have learning about division by grouping. We know that the biggest number has to be divided into groups of an amount, and we count the number of groups to find the answer.

Sophie enjoyed Art this week, where the children learned all about Max Ernst, a German artist who created ‘frottage’ which means rubbing. The children used pastels to create different rubbings by laying paper onto different textures and then create a collage using their rubbings.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

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, words ending -al and -il over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday.

This week!

Thank you to everyone who has read our homework expectations letter – the number of you who are reading at home regularly and completing your doodle learning has improved significantly – this will continue to help your child make progress with their reading and their maths, and we really appreciate your support.

Harry, Hugo and lots of other children have enjoyed our Science learning this week, where we have started an investigation into which conditions make germs grow the fastest. We touched a slice of bread with dirty hands, clean hands (soap) and clean hands (sanitiser) and have zipped the bread in a bag which we have taped to our cupboard door in order to observe the growth of mould over a period of two weeks. We predicted which bread we thought would grow mould the fastest and talked about why we think this is. We are looking forward to seeing the bread change and hope it doesn’t smell too much!

Phoebe has enjoyed our Reading this week, where we have continued to focus on our shared reading book, Kongy arrives. It is quite a lengthy read but the children can remember what happened and can answer questions about the text.

Dougie has enjoyed our English learning this week, where we have continued the Beast’s journey into the water – and then turned our focus onto Jellyfish. We have explored what Jellyfish are like, thinking about their appearance and their movement, and have turned our phrases into poems which we have written up in neat today!

Seb has enjoyed our RE learning this week, where we have been learning about how Muslims are encouraged by their God, Allah, to show compassion for living things. We looked at how some cats and dogs aren’t lucky enough to have homes, and that some people who are very kind, give up their time to adopt them and look after them, giving them a forever home.

Bertie has loved our English work this week where he wrote a lovely poem about a Jellyfish, and has loved handwriting too!

The children have worked really hard this week, we have given them two Maths test papers to try, which Amelia and lots of the others enjoyed completing, which has shown us how much progress the children have already made, even though we aren’t even half way through the year yet! We are really proud of the children’s resilience and determination.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. 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 – ten 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 over the Christmas holidays – these question words are words that we are finding the children are commonly misspelling in their independent writing.

There will not be a quiz style test, but we will be testing their knowledge of these words in our dictation lesson on Monday 6^th January.

This week!

Jasper L and George L has enjoyed our DT learning this week, where we explored tabs and different ways of joining two pieces of cardboard together. We put these skills into practice by making our very own prison cells – linking our DT learning with our Global Learning topic all about the Police!

Jude is very excited about Christmas, we have spent today participating in lots of Christmassy activities including having a Christmas buffet today! Jude and lots of the boys and girls enjoyed our Football interhouse on Friday afternoon where the children put their PE learning into practice and worked as a team to win as many games as they could!

Jonah loved making our Christmas cards this week – Dahl and Woodson class were lucky enough to pair up and work together to make their lovely Christmas cards which you will be receiving today! The children were amazing and worked so hard in a workshop style classroom setting, cutting, sticking and writing lovely Christmas messages.

The children have continued to work so hard at the end of a very long Autumn Term – we wish you all a restful break and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year for another term of working hard!

Best wishes,
The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. 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 – ten 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 – this week we are looking at apostrophes to show possession, for example: the lady’s hat, the boy’s football, the girl’s shoes.

Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rule over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday morning!

This week!

Bertie has loved our Maths learning this week where we have been subtracting a one digit number from a 2 digit number, but we have had to exchange! It has been challenging but the children have been very determined and we’ve all been successful in our learning 😊.

Hugo has enjoyed writing some poetry this week – we used our senses and imagined we were birds flying through the sky. We thought about what we could see, hear, feel and then wrote some descriptive phrases. We worked hard to improve the presentation of our written work and have produced some lovely poems.

Sonny, Dougie and Martha have enjoyed our Art learning this week where we have learned about Nick Park – the creator of Wallace and Gromit – we looked at the characters and thought about what shapes we could see within the clay and the skills needed to achieve the effect. We even got to have a little sneak peak of the Wallace and Gromit Series, watching ‘The Wrong Trousers!’

Harry loved our Music lesson this week, as we think most of the children did, where we gave them each their own recorder. We looked at how to hold the recorder properly, and how to blow into it properly. The children listened well and understand the contract we made – when to blow and when to hold their recorder in a variety of different positions, including rollercoaster, Pinocchio, pirate and bow tie!

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader. 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 – ten 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 – this week we are looking at apostrophes to show possession, for example: the lady’s hat, the boy’s football, the girl’s shoes.

Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rules over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday morning!

This week!

Nigel has enjoyed Art where we used the sketching skills that we learned last half term to complete an observational drawing of a police badge. Some children remembered how to create different shades by pressing harder and softer using their pencils.

Sunny has enjoyed Maths this week, where we have been practising our addition and subtraction skills to add ones, tens and groups of tens to different numbers.

Sonny has been reading another Roald Dahl Classic at home, George’s Marvellous Medicine, and has loved reading Fantastic Mr Fox in class as it is our class reading book this half term!

Phoebe enjoyed our English lesson today, where we learned about the prefix -un, meaning the opposite of the word it is in front of. We hunted for ‘un’ words and had to find their opposite word!

Sophie has enjoyed History this week where we learned all about crime in London in the past, and how people took it upon themselves to police the areas in the 1700’s – we then realised that they were not very good at their jobs and it took Sir Robert Peel to create the Metropolitan Police Act in 1829, and introduce the Police Force, to keep the community of London much more safe.

Dougie has enjoyed our Power of Reading text, the Magic Finger, which has given us lots of mature discussions linking with our Sustainable Development Goal ‘Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions’ – we have talked about Fox Hunting and the reasons for and against it. The children had some really interesting thoughts and we turned our ideas into a discussion and a debate – the children argued their cases really well and were very grown up in their responses.

If your child would like to sign up to sing at the Buckden Light Switch On event, please do this through Arbor – it should be going live this weekend and Mrs Farmer will begin rehearsals next week in preparation for the occasion!

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team