Year 2 Blog Friday 2nd May 2025

Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:40am

Home Practice

Reading:

In Year 2, children should read for at least 15/20 minutes every night and talk about the book.

This will help with understanding the text and learning new words.

Remember you will get a sticker on your book mark for every book you read!

Spelling:

Please practise these spellings for your quiz on Friday (09.05.25):

dropped   hopped   chased   looked   danced

dried    cried     tried      placed    raced 

Sumdog:

Counting:

Starting at one quarter count forwards in quarters. For example, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4, 1, 1 and 1/4, 1 and 2/4, 1 and 3/4, 2, 2 and 1/4, 2 and 2/4, 2 and 3/4, 3.

We enjoyed doing this in class and the children started to spot the pattern.

You could try counting in halves too! 

Times Tables:

Great work on your division facts for 5 in order.

Next week, Thursday (08.05.25) we will quiz your knowledge of the division facts for 5, in a muddled order.

English

We wrote about something sad which has happened to us as this is something Lila has to think about in the story.

We learnt about rainsticks and made our own out of a cardboard tube.

We wrote instructions for how to make a rain maker and tested the instuctions on Miss Whiting.

SPaG

We learnt about the different rules for adding ed to the end of words.

dropped   hopped   chased   looked   danced

dried    cried     tried      placed    raced 

Maths

Our new topic is fractions.

We built on our knowledge of halves and worked on finding quarters of shapes.

Art

Our project this half term is stick people.

The children spent time in the nature area searching for the perfect stick to use for making their own stick people.

Back in class, they used their sketch books to explore and draw some of their great ideas.

Forest School

This week we did some wild weaving. This is really good for developing our fine motor skills, creativity and imagination. We carefully put the rubber bands on the base and then used grasses, leaves and flowers in our piece of work. Usually we do not pick anything but today we could pick a few things. At the end of the session we had a reflection, we told whoever was next to us what we liked about their work. 

We also discussed the cotton tree seeds and how they are all being dispersed by the wind.

Science

We planted beans to investigation the effects of different conditions on germination.

Geography

The children completed a quiz and looked more closely at the animals and geographical features of Nigeria.

History

Our new topic is Kings, Queens and Castles.

We thought about the Kings and Queens that we know already, including what information/facts we know about them or their reign.

R.E

The children retold and illustrated the story of the Ascension so well.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week- Devyn

Super Learner-Eliza

Superstar Writer- Elyse

Bookworm-George

Mathematician-Harper

Special Mentions-Felicity and Noah B. in Reception for super wild weaving in Forest School.

Amelia L. - Being a lovely friend to everyone.