Home Learning

Reading:

Please read daily with your child and log on Boom Reader or in your child’s reading diary. We will be following up with children who are reading less than three times a week at home. If you would like a paper reading diary to record your reading at home, please let us know and we can provide one for you.

Handwriting:

Any opportunity to practise writing your letters using our cursive script at home would greatly help with developing and improving your child’s handwriting. We are focusing on ensuring our small letters are small, our tall letters are tall (and long) and that they are consistent in size.

Maths:

Please practise on Doodle Maths – fifteen minutes every day will help your child stay in the Green Zone! We will set an assignment for your child to do each Friday, to be completed by the following Friday.

Spellings:

We will be sending home a list of words for your child to practise at home each Tuesday. Don’t forget to practise this week’s spelling rule, words ending -le and -el, over the weekend ready for our quiz.

This week!

Dougie and Amelia have enjoyed learning about the character in our new class reading book, ‘The Beast’. We have thought about what we know, what we think we know and we have used our ideas to write a character description about the Beast.

Sophie, Hugo and lots of others have enjoyed Science this week, where we learned all about germs (both bad and good!), how quickly and easily they can spread, and how we can stop them!

Grace and Abel have enjoyed Global Learning this week, where we have been introduced to our new Goal – Clean Water and Sanitation. We thought about why it is important to have clean water, and the impact of drinking dirty water.

Phoebe enjoyed Computing this week, where we learned all about the buttons on a keyboard – we focused on the home row keys, and practised typing using both hands by playing a game on Purple Mash! If you would like to practise this at home, you can log onto your Purple Mash account and click on the ‘2 Type’ application.

Ollie, Charlie and Monty have enjoyed Maths this week, where we have been learning about doubling 2-digit numbers. On Friday we had a sneak peek of a practice Arithmetic SAT paper, and we loved using our whiteboards to show our methods when solving the different types of questions.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team