Year 2 Home Learning for the Easter Holidays

Dear Parents,

Thank you for all your support and help over the Spring Term it is greatly appreciated. We wish you a Happy and Holy Holiday this Easter. There is no formal homework over this special break but we’ve ensured all the children will be returning home with books to read - from class and the school library. Please continue to enjoy reading - it is the gift that keeps on giving!

If you find yourself with time to spare on a rainy day. You could complete one of the optional homework tasks or find out who Shakespeare was. When we return we’ll complete a two week block of learning on Shakespeare and the play “The Tempest”. On Tuesday 29th April we’ll be off to the Grand Theatre in Blackpool to watch the RSC close encounters version of the play! This trip is on parent pay £8.

Have a lovely break- God Bless

Year 2 Home Learning to be handed in Monday 31st March

LINES TO LEARN

Welcome Year 2 to the Easter Assembly story! Each Year each class form Year 2 to Year 6 takes one part of the Easter story and performs an assembly one each day over a week. Together we tell the story to the whole class and it is wonderful for everyone especially our youngest children. The assemblies help us to piece together the events of Jesus final days and his glorious reresection.

Year 2, we have the job of producing the opening assembly- telling the story of Palm Sunday (Monday 7th April). We have already started staging the play. We have limited time in the hall so it is super important that you know your line and who you come after before this Friday. We all have a line to learn. I have given everyone a copy of the script to take home and I have attached the script here too in case it is mislaid. Remember to practice with your biggest voice. I have also attached the song we are learning which we sing at the end “The Lord of the Dance”

MATHS- GAMES

I have given the children a copy of the maths games WEEK 3 of 5 on card and the instructions and diary. A massive thank you to parents who completed the diary last time (printing it out at home) and giving some feedback. Have fun with these. I’ve attached here again just incase the pack is mislaid.

HANDWRITING AND SPELLING

When marking I have noticed a join the children are struggling with - this is the r. I have given the children a practice sheet with this join (attached below too). I have also chosen 5 red word to learn. These are “words for life” they also have the r join in them. Ask your child to show you how we learn these spelling in school using a piece of paper folded into quarters. We write the word (correctly): then copy; then fold and hid to spell without looking; then we finally write it with our eyes closed.

very

every

everyone

everybody

friends

Have fun

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!