Year 2 Home Learning to be handed in on Monday 13th January

Welcome back everyone.

It was lovely to see all the children excited to see their friends and ready to learn again. We have dived straight back in!

CHANGES

There are some changes to the home learning. We now combine the spelling and handwriting together. We also introduce sentence dictations. This allows the children to listen, sound out and check over. In Maths we will be introducing fluency games to play at home. I’m just waiting for some training on this for myself and then I’ll introduce it to you and the children. This week we have a video explaining the bridging we are doing in class.

READING

Please make reading your priority each evening. Allow your child to build up their fluency and please do read to them - this is were new words and worlds open up!

HANDWRITING/SPELLING

Please watch the film here you will find CAPITAL LETTER PRACTICE and the dictated sentences.

SPELLING

Spelling rule this week changing single nouns to plurals - change the y into i and add es.

Play “Ping Pong” You say and show the word single. Then the child says the plural and writes the plural - this time dropping the y and adding ies.

cherry cherries

baby babies

family families

story stories

army armies

WHAT MY BOOK LOOKS LIKE

MATHS

Before half term, the children were learning how to bridge through ten when adding two numbers. We broke down this process over a number of lessons. We revised it immediately on our return. Some children are finding it tricky and it highlights our need to have automacitiy with all number bonds for numbers below ten. I have made a film especially for you so you can see how we are recording the bridging process. You will see how, over time, and with lots of practice this bridging becomes a mental strategy.

We have glued the maths sheets into their book - if the book was in school. If not it has been handed to the child and placed in their bag.

Having explained all this - we have a number of children in class who can already mentally bridge through ten. For those children it would be good for them to continue with their numbots.

Below is the button for our optional extra learning opportunities. These tasks link into the learning taking place over the next 6 weeks. We love to see your work and it is lovingly displayed in class.

Enjoy!

Year 2 - Home Learning to be handed in on the final Monday of term (15th July)

As we reach the end of Year 2 I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support with home learning throughout the year. Thank you for working alongside your child: reading, playing numbots, spelling and using letter join to develop their cursive handwriting. It really has made the difference.

READING

Lots of super reading going on in class. It is clear that when they read with you and you chat about the story they are super confident when quizzing!

How many books can you read in this final week? Books will be handed back next week so we can take stock. Time now to turn to the library - members of St. Annes library have been to school to share the “Summer Reading Challenge”. Why not pop along this weekend and get cracking!

MATHS

There is so much excitement around Numbots. We have a group of children who are about to get through the final level- DIAMOND. Please keep going! Please don’t stop - we continue to use Numbots in Year 3. We want everyone to get to the end so that all our addition and subtraction facts and structures are secure. This is a target you can keep working towards during the break from school.

SPELLING

Final spelling list - words ending in al

animal

equal

magical

metal

royal

signal

HANDWRITING

We have been writing stories this week and I’ve had lovely creative conversations. We have also chatted about handwriting and which letters are tricky. I would like the children to go into letter join and click on “Hard letters” in the menu bar - watch/try and practice K F Z and X.

Thank you!