Year 2 Friday Blog- 29.11.24

Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 1:33pm

 

 

 

Dear parents,

Welcome to the Year 2 Friday blog!

Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings / times tables and lots more. 

Homework

Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Question prompts are provided within reading books, coloured book marks and reading records. Asking questions improves key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference.

Please note that reading books will be changed on a Tuesday and two books will be given to each child to read for the week. Please write a note in your child's reading record book when a book has been completed and sign the relevant parent signature box. Thank you in advance.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to spelling frame. 

Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 5th December (see the files section on our Year 2 class page for the spelling/times tables overview for Autumn Term 2). Children learn spellings of words through use of a variety of strategies. Your child might prefer to write them down, say them aloud to an adult or use a combination of methods.

Times tables - Times tables are a vital skill. On December 5th, the children will be tested on the 2x tables (in a random order).

I will be keeping track of all children logging into both Spelling Frame and TT Rockstars. I recommend 10 minutes, every night, on each of the websites.

 

Handwriting Homework

To help support your child’s learning, I would like all of the children to use the letter chart below to write given sentences at home.

Please see the jumbled sentences below. To enable each child to concentrate solely on their handwriting, I would like them to unjumble the following sentences and write them out. These are not to be handed in. It would be greatly beneficial to your child if you could celebrate their handwriting achievements with them. Thank you in advance.

Remember to use capital letters and full stops.

Our learning this week in Year 2

English

This week in English, we have been focusing on planning and producing persuasive posters. We have used persuasive language to plan a poster encouraging people to sign up to a day trip on the moon. Using vocabulary collected from our text, The Man on the Moon, we thought about the most effective way to persuade others to take the trip. We have made cross-curricular links with our History topic, drawing on knowledge gained about space travel through the ages. 

Maths

In our maths lessons this week, we have been looking at capacity and volume. We have learning about millilitres and litres, as well as measuring and recording capacity. We have also started our topic of Money and have studied the value of coins. Next week, we will be  learning about adding amounts without bridging, as well as adding amounts with bridging.

Oracy- National No Pens Day 

As part of National No Pens Day, we played a number of games to help develop our oracy skills. The children loved playing the 1-20 numbers game and the describe it game. All of of the games focused on the use of social and emotional skills, including:

• working with others
• listening & responding
• speaking with confidence and showing awareness of the audience.

The children were also amazing speakers and active listeners during our show and tell session.

School Council Elections

Congratulations to our new school council representatives for Year 2. I am sure they will do a fantastic job, as did our Year 2 school councillors who were elected last year.

Have a look at our gallery to see some of the photographs taken during our No Pens Day.

 

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 2 team