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.

Handwriting will be a big focus after the Easter holidays, with a set session daily to develop fine motor skills and reteach the orientation of each letter, both capital and lowercase.

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.

If you would like to practise other areas of Maths over the holidays, any addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (2, 5 and 10x tables) would benefit your child greatly.

Spellings:

Please continue to practise your spellings over the weekend. You will have your test on Monday morning, and receive your new spellings on Tuesday to take home and practise.

This week!

Ruby has enjoyed our DT this week where we have used our skills learned from last week, to create our very own Bookmark, with a border and our initials. The children found this quite challenging but were very resilient and have produced some lovely creations!

Phoebe is very excited about Koinonia and sharing all of our learning with you from this half term.

Sonny has enjoyed our Art this week where we have finished off our Workhouse sketches – the children’s skills have developed so much over the course of the year, we are so proud!

Ollie has enjoyed Maths this week, we had a big natter on Wednesday all about numbers and we did a sorting activity where we looked at the different animals at the zoo, the number of legs they had and after half term we will be putting the data into a pictogram!

In Science this week, the children questioned ‘what is pollination?’. We acted out being bees, the Queen bee making the new bees, the drone bees and the worker bees who go out and find flowers to pollinate. We looked at the process of pollination, created a set of instructions for the pollination process and then we made an animation on Scratch Jr to show the process using our computing skills!

The children have continued to enjoy Music this week where we have practised our skills playing the recorder. We loved sharing our performance with you!

Have a wonderful half term break and a well-earned rest. We look forward to welcoming you back for the final half term of year two!

Best wishes,
The Year 2 Team