Year 2 - Praise Assembly - 13th October 2017

Today year 2 children were praised for their resilience in working to achieve awards and certificates through their online learning.  Lexie, Jason, Oscar, Able, Kurtis, Beau and Isla all achieved certificates.  Well done, keep up the hard work!
We have also had some excellent writing and planning at home in preparation for our BIG WRITE tomorrow.  Well done Jason, Florence, Jasmine, Oscar and Andreas for bringing in your writing and planning so far.  I look forward to seeing more tomorrow, I've heard talk of a puppet theatre... can't wait!
We also had to show our Diwa lamps which we have made for our India day next week and in response to our learning about Hinduism in RE.  The children were very focused in their approach to using clay and carved some super detail into the surface using clay tools.  The Taj Mahal group and The Jungle group were praised for their work so far...
Don't forget our India Day next Thursday, a blog will follow inviting you all to our Indian Restaurant.

Year 2 - Praise Assembly - 6th October 2017

Well done to the following children who were praised today for their amazing maths, writing, musicianship or artwork.
Abel, Alyce, Ella, Emilie, Erin, Harlan, Indi-Rose, Imogen, Jacob, Jasmine, Joey, Kurtis, Lexie, Lily, Phillippa and Sam.

Year 2 - Wonderful Wacky Hair - 6th October 2017

Well done to all of the amazing hair dos we saw at school today.  The children really enjoyed showing off their out of the ordinary wacky hair and we raised lots of money for Weldmar.  Photos will follow on Monday.

Year 2 - Maths Learning - Week Beginning 2nd October 2017

This week we have been looking at simple addition and subtraction.  We have added many small numbers by adding pairs of numbers that total 10.  This makes us much quicker at adding small amounts together.  We have also added and subtracted multiples of 10 and explored how if we know 3+4 =7 we also know 30+40=70 and 300+400=700.  We have practiced counting on from the biggest number using number lines and hundred squares.  Why not carry on practicing on Mathletics - addition and subtraction activities?

Year 2 - Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 2nd October 2017

This week we have been looking at adjectives to describe characters and scenes from The Jungle Book.  We have used our VCOP superheroes to help us improve our writing.  We have continued to look at full stops and capital letters and have also introduced the comma for when we write lists as Captain connective doesn't like using lots of "and".  So for example when we write a list we use a comma except with the last two terms:
Instead of writing: In the hot and calm and beautiful jungle...
Captain connective would write: In the hot, calm and beautiful jungle...
The children have also begun to write their own version of the Jungle Book which they will continue with next week in our BIG WRITE.  Please see the home learning blog.

Y2 - Spelling - 6th October 2017

Spellings for this week to learn for next Friday 13th October:
Red Phonics Group: (Looking at plurals)
dishes, matches, crashes, babies, loaves, leaves
Orange Phonics Group: (Revising oy/oi)
enjoy, loyal, royal, annoy, noise, choice
Green and Yellow: (or as in fork)
for, fork, cork, fort, short

Y2 - Home Learning - 6th October 2017

Year 2 Home Learning – Friday 6^th October 2017

Next week year 2 will be taking part in their first Big Write of year 2.  This time we plan to write stories.  We have used the Jungle book story to help us describe the scene and characters in our own story.  The children have written the beginning of the story, but need help at home this weekend to think about what might happen next! 

At home you could help by trying one of the following:

1.  Talk about the story and watch the film. (Disney 1967 version)

2.  Use the pictures below as puppets to act out the children’s ideas

3.  Help them to write ideas down. 

4.  Make a cartoon strip of what happens next.

We will be doing the Big Write on Friday, so that you have got plenty of time to think of ideas.

Here is what we have already done in class as well as some of the characters you could cutout and use as puppets: