Year 2 - Maths Learning - Week Beginning 18th September 2017

This week we have been refining our place value skills.  The children have been confidently moving into 3 digit numbers and have begun partitioning two digit numbers in different ways.  This means that they can say:
42=40+2, but they can also say 42=30+12. 
We use 10s and 1s to show this and children seem to pick up the pattern of moving a ten across quite quickly.  Next week we will continue practicing this skill as it is very important when we come to addition and subtraction.
If two digit numbers are a little tricky you could try partitioning smaller numbers in different ways.  Use bricks, pasta, stones, whatever you have to hand to make a group of say 8.  How many different ways can you split 8 into two groups?
8=4+4, 8=3+5, 8=2+6, and so on...  praise the children each time they make a new grouping.  Once confident at single digit numbers try the teen numbers!

Year 2 - Literacy Learning - Week beginning 18th September 2017

This week we have been using our research skills to find information about India.  The children have gathered information from a range of sources including pictures, from the internet, books and real artifacts.  The children have made their own notes which will be used next week in order to write statements about India in their own non-fiction books.  We are encouraging the children to give answers to questions in full sentences when talking about what they have found out, this will help them next week when they will be writing in sentences.  At home you could encourage the children to answer you in a sentence instead of giving one word answers.  For example:
"What would you like for breakfast?"
Instead of answering "Toast please!" you could try encouraging them to say, "I would like some toast please!".  Good luck!

Year 2 - Spellings - Week ending 29th September 2017

The spellings for this week are as follows:
Red Group:  Looking at adding ing to verbs.
hitting, putting, jumping, standing, joking, sliding
Orange Group: Revising the ea / ey sound.
read, treat, least, money, honey, donkey
Yellow and Green Group: oo as in book.
book, look, took, shook
Superhero points will be given for practicing these as well as getting them all right in the check next Friday 29th September.

Year 2 - Fun at the Farm - 22nd September 2017

We had a lovely morning at the farm on Friday.  We noticed all sorts of interesting things on the way and Hazel taught us all about the harvesting of crops at the farm.  We learned the difference between straw and hay, how crops were harvested and saw a real combine harvester.  We looked at grain and how it is mashed for the animals to eat at the farm.  Hazel showed us the big food mixer for cows and how the food could be measured to make tasty food for the cattle.  We smelt silage, got licked by cows and saw Tom's very cheeky pigs!  Many thanks to Hazel and Phillippa for showing us around and teaching us so much about harvest time on the farm!

Year 2 - Home learning - 22nd September 2017

Year 2 Home Learning – 22^nd September

Fruit and Veg Challenge:  A Harvest Themed Challenge!

Please choose one of the following as your home learning this week:

1.  Choose your favourite vegetable and make it into an animal or person – give it a name and think about what it is like.

2.  Write a fruit and veg A-Z.  Can you think of a fruit of vegetable that starts with each letter of the alphabet?

 

3.  Practice your drawing and sketching skills and draw a fruit or vegetable.  Make sure you use your shading skills, try to include what it looks like inside.

   
or 4.  Can you find out about a fruit or vegetable that nobody has ever heard of?  Write it down and tell us about it.

Bring in your home learning by next Friday 29^th September and remember you only need to do one of the above ideas.  We will display as much of your home learning as we can at our Harvest Celebration next Friday.

Year 2 - Building Learning Powers - 20th September 2017

If you would like to work on your learning powers at home, here are our three characters that we have met so far in year2.  We hope they help you as much as they help us in school!

Year 2 - Parents' information session - 15th September for Wednesday 20th September

This Wednesday we will be having a parents' information session for year 2.  I will be telling you all about what exciting things we have planned for this term in year 2 and you will have the opportunity to ask any questions you may have.  The session will run from 9am until 9:30am in the school hall.  Please come along and see what we will be getting up to in year 2
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