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

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.

We have sent home your child with a new class reader ‘Bea’s Pumpkin’. As we will not be reading this in school, we would appreciate if you could read this with your child over the Easter holidays. We look forward to hearing their thoughts when they return!

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!

What a whirlwind week we’ve had!

The children enjoyed Art where they finished their self-portraits. The children used guidelines to ensure their facial features were in proportion, used their knowledge and skills of shape and sketching to draw these features and finally added finer details such as freckles, beauty marks and hair to their portraits to complete them. They look fantastic!

The children also enjoyed DT this week where they used their knowledge of levers, sliders and pivots, and their skills of drawing, cutting and joining materials to create a poster of the Titanic sailing and hitting the iceberg. Some children even used a pivot to show the Titanic sinking into the water! We hope you enjoy their finished products as they have brought them home with them.

The children thoroughly enjoyed writing their instruction texts to catch the Witch from our CLPE book, Rapunzel. The children could use bossy verbs, time conjunctions, numbered steps and clear, simple instructions to ensure that the reader would be able to follow their instructions in order to create their traps.

In Maths we have recapped addition and subtraction using place value grids and visual representations to support our workings. We will continue to practise these skills in our arithmetic sessions after the Easter holiday to consolidate our understanding of regrouping and decomposing numbers when adding and subtracting.

The children have worked so hard and we hope that you all have a well-deserved Easter break, full of fun, family time and lots of chocolate!

Happy Easter!

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, 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

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 a consonant before an ending to words with one syllable, ending in a vowel and a consonant. i.e. pat – patted, swim – swimming.

This week!

Ruby enjoyed thinking about how to look after a pet in our Science learning this week.

Phoebe has enjoyed our introduction to our new CLPE book, Rapunzel. We loved looking at the characters and the Witch’s bright, colourful underwear!

Nigel and Sophie’s three minute talks were very interesting this week, we’ve learned lots of facts about Cheetahs and we now know how much Nigel loves Lego!

Sonny and Dougie loved Computing this week where we looked at sequences of events and how we need a starting block to begin a new sequence of instructions. We loved learning about Scratch Jr!

Hugo loved our Rugby lesson on Monday where we learned how to throw and catch a rugby ball. We enjoyed playing a game of pass the ball as a round robin!

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, adding a consonant before an ending to words with one syllable, ending in a vowel and a consonant. i.e. pat – patted, swim – swimming.

This week!

Sunny and Hugo enjoyed our RE lesson this week where we learned all about what Muslims do to celebrate Eid.

Charlie and Harry have enjoyed Maths this week where we have been learning the different ways to solve division calculations, including grouping, skip counting and even sharing. We know that we need to look out for key vocabulary in the word problems we encounter, such as ‘share equally’ or ‘groups of’.

We’ve enjoyed lots of three-minute talks this week, including Ruby, Dougie and Grace’s – we learned about fossils, pandas and hockey!

Sophie and Sonny enjoyed Art and DT this week, where we made sliders – a mechanism that makes a movement. Sliders move from side to side, up and down. We are excited to practise making our own lever mechanism next week before designing and making our own information page incorporating both a lever and a slider mechanism.

Phoebe has enjoyed our English learning this week, where we have been looking at newspaper reports and identifying their features. Next week we will be writing our own newspaper reports about the Lonely Beast!

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 ‘when adding a suffix to words ending in -y, i.e. ‘happy’, we drop the y and add an ‘i’ before adding the suffix, except for when we add -ing where we keep the y’ over the weekend ready for our quiz on Monday.

This week!

Sophie, Sonny and Ruby have enjoyed our English learning this week, where we planned, prepared and wrote a diary entry about our journey under the sea. We made sure to include key events, our emotions at the time and we even challenged ourselves to use ‘because’ to explain why we were feeling that way. All of the children gave their independent writing a really good go and we are so proud of their finished diary entries!

George, Hugo, Harry and lots of other children have enjoyed learning about shapes this week! We have drawn around a range of 2D shapes, learned their names and how to spell them, as well as looked at their properties. We now know how many sides and vertices that lots of different 2D shapes have.

Phoebe has enjoyed Geography this week where we have learned about the different sources of water on our planet, including those that are made naturally such as a pond, rivers and streams and rainwater, as well as those made by humans, which include wells, dams and tubewells!

Jonah and lots of other children enjoyed Charlie’s 3 minute talk this week, where he brought a sturgeon into class and could share lots of facts all about it!

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team