Please use the week over half term to carry on with your home learning pyramid projects and work on your online learning.

We look forward to a big show and tell of models and posters after half term.

Phonics

Please make sure you read every day over half term. This does not have to just be your school reading books but also library books, home reading books and information from the internet when you are working on your projects.

Maths

Please make sure you practice your 2x, 5x and 10x tables. If you know these off by heart then begin the 3x, 4x and 6x tables. Practice the four operations of +, -, x and ÷ by making your own number sentences, rolling dice of turning over digit cards.

Bug Club, Abacus

We are very happy to announce that Year Two were victorious in the pizza challenge!

We also won cleanest workstation overall…

Below are some photos for you to enjoy!

An excellent end to a fun and creative maths week.

Literacy: I could start thinking about planning my version of Rumplestiltskin for story writing next week.

Numeracy: I could play ‘guess my number’ using the dance equation number shapes I can make with my body. Remember 1 jump for a ‘tens’ number and 2 jumps for a ‘hundred’ number.

RE: I could start finding out about Sikhism and bring anything I find out to RE on Tuesday next week.

Phonics

Miss Smillie’s Phonics Group – ‘W’ words which all sound different e.g. who, where, when, was, why, what, witch, which

Miss Hele’s Phonics Group- Find words with the different spelling of the /oo/ sound e.g. ‘ew’, ‘ue’, ‘u’, ‘u_e’, ‘oo’.

Mrs Wickes’ Phonics Group- Find words with the different spelling of the /oo/ sound e.g. ‘ew’, ‘ue’, ‘u’, ‘u_e’, ‘oo’.

Miss Stinton’s Phonics Group- Find words where the letter ‘u’ is pronounced differently like ‘umbrella’, ‘unit’ or ‘put’.

Bug Club, Abacus

We were so excited this morning when we got to school and it was still snowing!

We spent half an hour with the rest of the school playing in the snow on the field.

We had so much fun!!

We really enjoyed collaborating this morning as we taught our classmates how to play our favourite games and puzzles.

It’s great to remember how much maths learning can be experienced through simple games and puzzles.

Hopefully we’ve got Year Two really excited about going home and carrying on playing board games and card games.

We have been very busy this week learning all about division, speech punctuation and parables!

Literacy: I could practice using speech punctuation in my own story. Don’t forget to check the blog to see the rhyme!

Numeracy: I could practice solving division problems like 21÷7=   (How many groups of 7 are there in 21?)

RE: I could think about the message of forgiveness and find some parables which teach me about this.

Phonics

Miss Smillie’s Phonics Group – Collect different suffixes (word endings) when looking at present and past tense verbs e.g. cry – cried, humming – hummed, running – ran

Miss Hele and Mrs Wickes’ Phonics Group– Investigate words with different spellings of the /ar/ sound e.g. calm, heart, are, bizarre, car, dancing. Practice spelling the tricky words: saw, through, some, was.

Miss Stinton’s Phonics Group– Find words where the letter ‘c’ is pronounced differently like ‘cylinder’ or ‘crow’. Practice spelling the tricky words ‘one’ and ‘out’.

Bug Club, Abacus

This week we have been learning all about using speech in narrative.

We have learnt a rhyme to help us to remember how to punctuate our speech correctly.

Inverted comma “

Capital letter  A

Actual spoken words  abc

Punctuation  ,   ?   !

End the speech marks “

Finish with a speech verb.

Ideas for creative speech verbs:

called

whispered

grumbled

mumbled

screamed

shuddered

croaked

shouted

murmured

NOT ‘said’!

Literacy: I could paint/ draw/ collage a new fairy-tale setting. I could then write a description about it in my home learning book.

Numeracy: I could practice my 2x, 5x and 10x tables. I could use an array to show what some of these multiplications look like.

RE: I could read the story of the Lost Sheep and think about how it teaches me about forgiveness.

Phonics

Miss Simllie’s Phonics Group – Change these words from past into present, to future tense: ate, ran, went, saw, sat, looked, visited, changed, shopped, said, called, shouted

Miss Hele’s Phonics Group– Open your home reading books and find words with the sounds ‘ou’, ‘ll’, ‘ue’, ‘a_e’, ‘ew’.

Mrs Wickes’ Phonics Group– Open your home reading books and find words with the sounds ‘ou’, ‘ll’, ‘ue’, ‘a_e’, ‘ew’.

Miss Stinton’s Phonics Group– Find words where the letter ‘g’ is pronounced differently like ‘ground’ or ‘ginger’.

Bug Club, Abacus

Year Two loved our visit to Oaklands to learn about Kings and Queens.

Here are some of the Oaklands children teaching us about Queen Elizabeth I’s  great victory of the Spanish Armada.

We were even in the paper! Hopefully you will have read the photocopy of the article which came home in book bags this week.

Literacy: I could write a character description of my favourite story character. Remember to use adjectives, noun phrases and a simile!

Numeracy: I could practice paying and giving change using 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p coins. What coins could I use to make 39p?

RE: I could find out more about Baptism and what happens when people are baptised.

Phonics

Miss Simllie’s Phonics Group – Write some sentences that change past tense verbs to present tense e.g. Yesterday I ate an egg sandwich and today I am eating an egg sandwich.

Miss Hele’s Phonics Group- Practice using words with the ‘ow’ sound in sentences – ‘ow’. ‘ough’, ‘ou’.

Mrs Wickes’ Phonics Group- Practice using words with the ‘ai’ sound in sentences – ‘ai’, ‘ay’, ‘eigh’, ‘a_e’, ‘a’.

Miss Stinton’s Phonics Group- Find words where the letter ‘i’ is pronounced differently like ‘tin’ or ‘blind’.

Bug Club, Abacus