Year 2 Deer

Mrs Wood (Mon - Thurs) and Miss Rigden (Fridays)

Home learning

Reading (10 minutes per day)

Please read with your child every day for approximately 10 minutes. 

I will collect reading records every Wednesday and check any comments (please record no more than 3 times a week)

Children can change their books every day or as needed.

There is a new reading challenge for the Autumn term (please see the front of your child's reading record). 

Spellings (15 minutes per week) 

This week we have been spelling Words ending in 'il'.  These are set in Ed shed. 

I have set it up, so you will only see the focus spellings for each week.

Your username and password for Ed Shed is at the beginning of your reading records.  

Maths (20 minutes per week)

X tables - have a go at the x tables test online http://www.timestables.me.uk/

 - times and divide 2

- times and divide10

Other home learning resources children can use at home: 

Scratch    Interactive resources  IXL   Purple Mash  Spelling shed   BBC Bitesize    Oxford Owl

Picture news

Notices

PE - Autumn 2 term 2023

PE will be on Monday and Tuesday.

Please ensure full PE kit is worn on this day, including jogging trousers / leggings and shorts. 

Library

Our Library day is Wednesday. Please ensure library books are in on this day to be changed. 

Taste of our learning

Friday 1st December

Class reader - All are welcome

What is the message in the story? What did you learn?  What features show that it is a fiction book?

Friday 24th November

Class reader - Gorilla

How do you think the gorilla is feeling and why? Where do you think he belongs? What might have happened to him?

Friday 17th November

Class reader - The lost words - range of different poems.

Which poem is your favourite? Why? How is a poem laid out differently to other texts that you have read? Which new adjectives did you learn this week?

Friday 10th November

Class reader -Peace Lily

Does this book remind you of any other stories?  Did it remind you of a character in another story? How did the story make you feel?

 

Friday 3rd November

Class reader -Where the Poppies now grow

Where is the story set? How did the story make you feel? What emotions did you feel throughout the story? Did they change?

Friday 20th October

Class reader - Hamilton's hats

Can you remember the type of hats that Hamilton had? What adjectives can you remember from the book? How did Hamilton help the mouse?

 

Friday 13th October

Class reader - The girl, the bear and the magical shoes

Why do you think the girl was running away from the bear? Can you think of other things that the shoes could turn into? Did you enjoy the story? Why?

Friday 6th October

DT - We made jam sandwiches!

To finish our writing topic on 'The lighthouse keepers lunch' we wrote instructions on how to make a jam sandwich. The children had fun giving me instructions on how to make a jam sandwich. They soon realised they had to be more specific with their vocabulary and recognised the importance of putting the instructions in the correct order.  

In their sandwich instructions they used 'Imperative verbs’ which are bossy doing words, such as 'spread', 'cut' and 'eat'.  They used time vocabulary such as 'first', 'then', 'after that' and 'finally'. 

After writing their instructions, they made their own sandwich and followed the instructions carefully. 

Can you follow instructions correctly at home? 

Were you successful in your activity if you followed the instructions carefully?

Class reader - The Tiger who came to tea

How did the author describe the tiger? How would you describe him? What activities did the tiger get up to?

 

Friday 29th September

We have been continuing our topic in Science called 'Animals including humans'. So far the children have been talking about the 5 different animal groups and finding out and discussing the word 'maturity'. This week the children have been looking at a variety of animals and sorting whether they look like their adult or don't look like their adult. They discussed their findings in groups and then shared as a class. They thought about whether there was a pattern of animals that did/did not look their adult in certain animal groups. Next week the children are going to be starting to think about humans and the different stages that a human goes through.

Don't forget your height recordings next week as we are going to be using these in the next two lessons!  

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Can you remember the 5 different animal groups?

What is meaning of the word offspring?

Class reader - Tabby McTat

How did Sock feel at different parts of the story? Why does his thoughts and feelings change throughout the story?

 

Friday 22nd September

We have been continuing with our maths unit on partitioning. The children have been using and finding different methods to find the tens and ones in a variety of different numbers. This week we have been looking at how we can partition the same number in different ways, such as the numbers 54 = 50 and 4, 54 = 40 and 14, 54 = 30 and 24, 54 = 20 and 34, 54 = 10 and 44.

The children have used a variety of dienes, bead strings and counters to partition a number in different ways. 

 

​Can you partition the number 67? Have a go at 99!

How many ways can you split these numbers?

 

Class reader: Sharing a shell

What objects did the slug choose as a shell? Why were those objects not good choices? What do you think the message was in the story?

Friday 15th September

Lighthouse keepers lunch

This week our writing has been focused around the story, The lighthouse keepers lunch. The children have been thinking of some amazing prediction's about what might happen to the lunch, such as the seagulls taking it, pirates stealing it, or the wire snapping and the basket falling into the sea. Throughout the week we have been focusing on the subordinating conjunctions 'because, if, when and that' and we have completed activities on how we use them in a sentence. 

We finished the week with the children thinking about all the disgusting things that you could put in a sandwich to make it less appetising for a seagull. They described their sandwich and gave their reason for the choice of filling using the subordinating conjunction 'because'. 

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Can you write a sentence with a subordinating conjunction? (if, because, when, that)

What would your favourite sandwich be and why?

Class reader: Little beauty

Did you enjoy the story? Why? How did the story make you feel? Why do you think Beauty lied for the gorilla?

 

Friday 8th September 2023

 

Hello and welcome to Year 2. It has been such a busy but lovely week getting to know everybody. It has been great to see how well the children work together and how independent they all are already. This week we have been going over Year 2 expectations and the children have created a class charter. They discussed the rules of the classroom that they believe should happen in Year 2 and everyone has agreed on them. The children created their own individual puzzle piece, we spoke about how we are all part of a puzzle and for our class to work well we all need to work together as a whole. 

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What is a successful learner? 

This week we read the story called 'The Rainbow Fish'. This is about a fish who chose to be unkind and to not work or share with others. We spoke about different attributes in our self which makes us a successful learner. We created our own Rainbow fish by all decorating our own fish scale. We spoke about the different qualities we need to be a successful learner and related this to the different story characters in our classroom. 

Year 2 ambassadors

Arts Ambassador: Noah

Eco Ambassador: Pippa

School councillor: Catherine

Well done to our ambassadors, I know that you will represent year 2 really well.