Year 2 Home Practice - 27th November 2020

Date: 27th Nov 2020 @ 8:35am

It was great to see smiling faces return to school this week. We continue to work hard in Year 2 and the children have had a great week. This week we have been carrying on from our Paddington story and carried out research on different types of bears. The children then created a non-fiction poster with the information gathered. In Maths we have continued to focus on strategies for solving addition and subtraction questions. Next week we ill be moving onto multiplication. In RE we have started our new topic of Advent/Preparation and we have discussed how we can prepare for Christmas/the birth of Jesus. In PE we have continued to look at racket skills and children have worked hard on being able to strike ball accurately. Another brilliant week, well done!

Reading

In Year 2 we aim to read for a minimum of 15 minutes every night and discuss the book with an older sibling or adult to help deepen your knowledge.

Reading books are changed every Monday.

Reading resources:

Oxford Owl – This resource has an exciting range of carefully levelled books to help children learn to read, and love to read.

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 red box ‘eBook Library for Letters & Sounds’

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

Spelling

This week we have been learning how to spell words with the ‘ur’ sound.

Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

This week’s spellings are:

hurt

burn

nurse

heard

earth

learn

girl

first  

Christmas

door

Maths

This week in Maths we have continued to focus on addition and subtraction strategies. We have looked at mental strategies as well as using concrete equipment like base ten, to help consolidate learning. There has been a particular focus on exchanging with subtraction. Please continue to use the challenges set on Sumdog.

Sumdog

Sumdog can be played from home, as well as in the classroom. To log in from home, students use the same details as they do in class.

Log in at www.sumdog.com

Additionally, students can access Sumdog via the app, which are free to download and play. In both cases, they'll need an internet connection.

Sumdog challenges

Multiplication –  x2, x5 and x10 tables

Maths – Addition and subtraction questions

Phonics  – Tricky words

Spellings - We have also uploaded a spelling quiz. Please practise these spellings ready for your quiz every Friday.

Thank you for all your continued support,

The Year 2 team