Year 2 Blog Thursday 20th October 2022

Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 1:59pm

Year 2 have had a really fantastic first half term, I am very pleased with how hard everyone has worked and how much progress has been made already. In English, the children researched facts and wrote their own Pet Information Sheet. They also focused on sentence structure and handwriting. In Maths, we continued our work on addition and subtraction with a focus on number bonds and their related facts and we added two, two-digit numbers. In R.E we looked at what happens at a Baptism. Celebrating Harvest in Church was a real highlight this week. The children produced colourful line art and sang beautifully during Music. I hope you all enjoy the Halloween Disco and have a lovely half term holiday. I’ll look forward to seeing you when we get back to school.

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.

You could look in a thesaurus and see what other words have the same meaning as the one you have found.

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 - 14.09.22 Max’s Box. Read to page 6, really enjoying the book or good sounding out of tricky words or struggled with the word – because/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 (04.11.22). A sheet will go home every Friday with the spelling list on. This is for home practise only and can be kept with you.

It will really help your children’s writing if they can spell the common words they use frequently in class. Attached are the Year 1 and 2 common exception words. Knowing sounds (phonics) will not help with these words, they just need to know them by memory/sight. Learning five or six of these words at a time will really help. Write them down and pin them up on the fridge or wall. We work on these in class as well and the children are tested (quiz) on them before Christmas.

You will have a Sumdog challenge on these words to complete by Friday 04.11.22.

This week’s spellings:

music                shield

human               head    

snow                  bread

grow                  laughed

field                  because

Maths

At home, play the ‘follow me’ counting game. We have played this in class! Count to a hundred forwards or backwards taking it in turns to say each number. As you get better try to go faster. You could play the game counting in 2’s, 5’s, 10’s or 3’s.

You will have a 2x, 5x and 10x tables and a subtraction challenge on Sumdog to complete by Friday 04.11.22.

Sumdog

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Thanks for bringing wellies in for Forest School. After Half Term, It would be great if they can be left in school as the children will be doing it at different times in the week come rain or shine!!

Have a lovely Half Term break.

Year 2 Team.