St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 2 Blog Friday 25th November 2022
Date: 25th Nov 2022 @ 4:05pm
Another great week in Year 2, the time is going by so quickly! We have started to prepare for our Nativity Play already. The children have been amazing, learning the songs/actions and acting out their parts so confidently. In English, we read The Sand Horse by Ann Turnbull and the stories about sand creature adventures that Year 2 wrote were really fantastic. Everyone has been trying to use more exciting adjectives to describe things in more detail. We have finished our topic on multiplication and we are moving on to tables and graphs in Maths. In RE, we learnt about the Advent Wreath and what the different parts symbolise. In Computing, the children are learning about digital photography and they took careful photos of objects/people around the classroom. In French, they focussed on the words for parts of our face and even began to read in French too - managing to read the correct colours and body parts for the worksheet. Tres bien!
Click here to see some Outdoor learning photos
Reading
In Year 2, children should read for at least 15 minutes every night and talk about the book. This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.
Please date, sign and leave a small comment when you have read with your child and make it clear that you have finished a book, then we know we can change it. For Example - 14.11.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or finished the book. MG.
Reading books are changed every Wednesday. You will receive 2-4 books depending on their length, they should last the week, if you read a little each night. However, if you need to change a book at any other time, we will change it as needed.
Reading resources:
Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read and really enjoy it.
If parents and children decide to use this resource, we ask they access phase 5 books. Go to https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and select ‘my class login’. Scroll down to the ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’. You could also explore the rest of the site and read books from the Oxford Owl eBook library or listen to audio books.
Username: sto2
Password: 1234
Resources for questioning your child while they are reading - https://www.literacyshedblog.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/ks1_reading_vipers.pdf
In addition to this, reading a good bed time story to your child is so worthwhile and really helps towards a lifelong love of reading.
Spelling
Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (02.12.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.
You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 02.12.22.
It has been brought to my attention that occasionally the spellings game can cut off. This is a minor tech issue, if this happens and you have completed your work, there is no need to do it again.
This week’s spellings:
relax thief
record only
dream she
speed key
swede great
Maths
At home, count forwards and backwards in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. Play the ‘follow me’ game. Start at different numbers and speed up for more of a challenge.
You will have a 2x, 5x and 10x tables and an array/repeated addition challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 02.12.22.
Sumdog
Log in at www.sumdog.com
Remember coats and wellies for Forest School!
Please sing Nativity songs at home and do the actions that you can remember!
Sponsored Santa Dash next Friday 2nd December.
Library visit on Tuesday 29th November.
Have a lovely weekend.
Year 2 Team.