Spellings
Revisiting Year 1 - Compare: /ou/ /ow/ (shout/ crown)
New for Year 2 - Apostrophes for possession
CEW - hour
Special Skill - Homophones: hear/here
Maths use numbots 3 times a week
Reading Read daily and record on boom reader
Spellings:
Practise some of the following common exception words: great, break, steak, because, again, even, people, find, kind, mind, wild, child(ren), climb, old, cold, gold, hold, fold, told, most, only, clothes, both, hello.
This week has been a super week in Year 2!
Hugo has really enjoyed our shared reader this week, where we have been practising reading to develop our fluency, and even performed our favourite animal poems to our friends!
Jesse has enjoyed getting outside to collect our natural materials ready to fill our newly made Bug Houses next week. We can't wait to share these with you on Friday at koinonia!
Bode has enjoyed our first rehearsal of the play where we teamed up with Year 4 to sing some of the songs and to share our fabulous dances!
Jacob has enjoyed learning all about the different 2D and 3D shapes. We have learned how to count the number of sides, the number of vertices and we have even learned about lines of symmetry. Reuben knows that a line of symmetry shows us that both sides of the shape are exactly the same, and can be vertical, horizontal or even diagonal.
George enjoyed PE this week where we have practised dribbling a range of balls with our feet showing control and coordination.
Just one more week to go until we can sit back and relax... the children have worked so hard and deserve a well-deserved rest!
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team
Talk Homework: This week we have been learning about dependency within habitats in our Science learning. Dependency is when a group of plants and animals who live in the same habitat rely on eachother to survive. For example, oak trees, squirrels and foxes all depend on one another to survive.
The squirrel spreads the acorns from the oak tree allowing more oak trees to grow, the squirrels depend on the oak tree for their food and shelter, and the fox depends on the squirrels to survive.
The fox also depends on the oak tree as without them, there would be less squirrels to eat, and the oak tree also depends on the fox, as if foxes didn't eat squirrels, they may eat all of their acorns and no more oak trees would grow! Can you think of any other examples of dependency within a habitat, for example, the ocean?
Spellings
Rule - Adding suffixes to split digraph words and other words ending in ‘e’
Common Exepction Words (CEW) - old, cold, gold, hold, fold, told
Special Skill - Contraction: don’t
Maths - Numbots 3 times a week
Reading - Read daily and log it on boom reader
On Monday we will be going to church, any walkers would be greatly appreciated. Please let Mrs Farmer or Miss Freeman know :)
Spellings -
Rule: Practise adding suffixes to split digraph words and other words ending in e
CEW: find, kind, mind, wild, child(ren), climb
Contractions: I’ll, you’ll, we’ll
Maths - Numbots
Reading - read and record on boom reader.
Talk Homework: Talk to your adults at home all about Sir David Attenborough. If you have time, have a look at some of his documentaries in which he talks about how to save Planet Earth and life on it.
Spelling Rule: Adding endings to split digraph words - i.e. wake = waking, gaze = gazed, shade = shady.
Year 2 Common Exception Words: great, break, steak.
What a lovely week we have had in Year 2!
We started the week reading a little more into our Power of Reading book, 'The Last Wolf' and we have discovered that the last wolf on earth (in the story) is in fact not a typical scary, storybook wolf, but a kind, old wolf who lives in a cosy tree-cave with his friends, the lynx and the bear. We can't wait to find out more next week...
In Maths, we have looking in detail at multiples of 10. We have been looking at multiples of ten and using our prior knowledge of our number bonds to 10 to help us in adding and subtracting numbers to 100, for example: if 3 + 6 = 9 then 30 + 60 = 90. We also looked at how we can add and subtract ten from any number, and we noticed that the ones number stays the same and the tens number increases or decreases by one - for example, 36 + 10 = 46 and 78 - 10 = 68. Some of us even challenged ourselves to add and subtract more than one multiple of ten, and we still saw the same pattern!
In Science this week, we have been learning about local habitats. We learned that a habitat is a place that an animal lives in, that provides it with everything it needs to survive, for example, shelter, food and water. We visited our new school pond area to discover the different animals that use it as their habitat, and we revisited our learning from last week by finding things that were alive, dead and that had never been alive!
Have a lovely weekend, and please ensure that as the weather gets a little bit cooler that your child has appropriate clothing and footwear for our ever unpredictable weather.
Best wishes,
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team
Spelling
Rule - Adding endings to split digraph words
Common Exception Words - because, again, see, sea
Special Rule - sea, see
Maths - using numbots 3 times a week
Reading - daily and log on boom reader
