Year 2 Home Learning for Thursday 7th January 2020

Dear Parents and Carers

Below is the lesson overview and resources needed for today’s learning. I will be available to contact between 10 am and 12 pm if you have any questions about the learning or if any of the children want to chat. There will be a teaching video posted to Class Dojo.

Thank you for your continued support,

Mr Stocking

Lesson Overview

Thursday 7th January Lesson Overview

Maths

Maths Adding Equal Groups

Writing

English Past and Present tense verbs PowerPoint

English Past and present verbs sheet

Reading

Guided Reading Park text and picture

Topic

Great Fire of London PowerPoint

Great Fire of London Pictures

 

Year 2 Home Learning for Wednesday 6th January 2021

Dear Parents and Carers

Thank you for an excellent first day of home learning. It was wonderful to see the children working hard and to read about all of their Christmases.

Below is the lesson overview and resources needed for today’s learning. I will be available to contact between 10am and 12pm tomorrow if you have any questions about the learning. There is a teaching video posted to Class Dojo for today’s English lesson.

Mr Stocking

Lesson Overview

Wednesday 6th January lesson overview

Maths

Maths making equal Groups

Writing

Expanded Noun Phrases PowerPoint English

Reading

Guided Reading Questions for Chapter 1 of the Hodgeheg

Guided Reading Answers

RE

The Lord’s Prayer

Tuesday 5th January 2021 Year 2 Home Learning

Dear Parents and Carers

Below you will find the lesson overview and resources needed for today’s learning. There will be two videos posted to the Class Dojo to help with the children’s learning. I will be available to contact between 10am and 12pm if you have any questions about the learning. I will also be providing feedback for the children during this time. I will be looking at the ClassDojo at other points throughout the day, but if you would like an immediate answer to a question then between 10am and 12pm is the best time to ask.

Thank you for your continued support in these difficult times. I hope everyone had the best Christmas they could and a rested holiday.

Mr Stocking

Lesson Overview

Tuesday 5th January 2021  Lesson Overview

Maths

Maths 05-01-21

Writing

Recount-Diary Frame

Reading

The Hodgeheg by Dick King Smith (PDF)

Hodgeheg Character drawing and description

Science

Healthy Eating PowerPoint

Food Journal

 

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Dear Parents and Carers

We have reached the end of our first term in Year 2, and the children have been brilliant. From the start of September right up to today, the children have worked hard, learnt a lot and most importantly, they have been very kind to each other in these very different times.

This week, the children enjoyed their Christmas Party. We finished our letters and posted them home, hopefully they have started to arrive already! Yesterday we all watched our Christmas Show which everyone should be able to watch through the school website.

Next term, we are starting our whole lot of history topic, starting with the Great Fire of London. We will be learning our Year 2 times tables and starting to read new, longer texts in guided reading and English lessons.

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas, a very happy new year and the children all have a well earned rest! Finally, I just wanted to say a huge thank you from myself and Mrs Killy for the very generous Christmas gifts, it is very much appreciated.

Mr Stocking

1 week to go!

Dear Parents and Carers

The children have had a very different week in school this week. We started the week with the children becoming actors and the teachers becoming directors as we filmed our Christmas show. Thank you for the fantastic costumes, all of the children looked excellent! The children were wonderful role models to the younger children in Year 1 and we are all very proud of them. Photos from the show will be uploaded to the blog next week.

For the rest of the week we have been preparing and writing our detailed letters to Father Christmas. The children will publish their letters on Monday and Tuesday and we will be walking to the post box on Wednesday to post them home. This is an excellent opportunity for you to see some of the lovely writing the children have been doing this term. If you haven’t already, please can you send in an addressed envelope with a stamp by Tuesday 15th December. 

In maths, we have finished our learning for this term and are now consolidating all of our learning through practical activities and various number games. In RE, the children learnt about and created Christingles. Next week we will be finishing off the topics that we have been looking at in Geograpgy, RE, music and Science.

Next week we will also be having our Christmas party. This will take place on Wednesday 16th December. They must bring in their clothing in a named bag on Monday 14th December so that it is able to be left for 48 hours before our party on Wednesday. Due to COVID guidance, the children must bring in their own party food for them to eat by themselves. They can bring the food in a snack box and will have the opportunity to eat it in the afternoon. Please remember the food must not contain any traces of nuts, peanuts or seeds.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mr Stocking, Mrs Killy and Mrs Fenwick

Grumpy snowmen, Christmas letters and the start of advent!

Dear Parents and Carers,

The children have had a different week this week with extra show and singing practises in preparation for filming the show next week. The children have approached the show with excellent attitudes, fantastic acting and singing and have been wonderful role models throughout.

Spelling Shed this week continues to have 3 groups. All 3 groups will have a mini test next Friday. Please make sure the children are going on and checking their spellings, even if it is only a couple of games at a time. It really helps with their writing and enables us to talk about the sound they are learning in greater depth. One group is looking at the /n/ sound spelt kn and gn, one group is looking at the /j/ sound spelt -ge and one group is looking at the /ou/ sound.

This week in English the children have been preparing and planning to write a letter to Father Christmas. This letter is different to a normal letter to Santa, because the children won’t only be talking about what presents they would like, but will also include extra details about their Christmases, as well as ask Father Christmas a few questions that they have for him. After these are complete we want to have the children post the letters home, so that you can see an example of the excellent writing they have been doing this term. Could you please send in an addressed envelope with a stamp by Monday 14th December.

In Maths, we have finished money and started looking at multiplication and division which will continue through to the end of term. In topic, we have been looking at animals native to Australia. In RE, the children learnt about advent and created an advent calendar of kindness for our classroom. Next week the children will be learning more about the festivities of Christmas and thinking about how they celebrate the holiday. In Art, the children started creating grumpy snowmen for our show, and will finish these next week. In Science, the children learnt about the different stages of human life.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mr Stocking, Mrs Killy and Mrs Fenwick

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Dear Parents and Carers

This week for the children’s homework I have posted some more Phonics practise, as well as some maths booklets the children can have a go at. Each week I will post a different one to match the topics we have covered. This week the children can look at questions based on place value (our first topic covered this year). The children have worked very hard at consolidating their phonic knowledge, and I feel confident that all of the children are ready for our test next week.

In English, we have been continuing our adventure through the Aaron Becker Journey series, with the second book Quest. The children created wanted posters for the magical king from the story, focusing on creating exciting character descriptions. The children have really enjoyed exploring these books, and we have got some incredible creative writing from it. In maths, the children started learning about money. We learnt how to recognise coins and notes, how to count in pounds and pence, and how to select the correct amount of money.  If you have any coins at home, ask the children about what they have learnt!

In science, the children learnt about the names of different animal babies, which animals look different to their parents (such as tadpoles and frogs), and the life cycles of living things. In R.E., the children learnt about Saint David, and tried to answer the question what saints mean to Christians. In our topic lesson, we explored different facts and features about the Isle of Wight and Australia.

Next week, we will be writing acrostic poems in English, continuing to look at money in maths, learning about the wildlife of Australia and how it is different to what we have in the UK in topic, and in science, the children are learning about the different stages of humans. In R.E., the children will be creating pictures of what a saint means to them or others. In P.E., we will be moving from dance to yoga, and continuing football in outdoor PE.

Below are all the phonics and maths resources needed to continue their learning at home. Don’t feel as though you have to look at all of the resources. Have a lovely weekend, and well done to all of the children for another fantastic week, we are all very proud of the effort you are putting into each and every day!

Mr Stocking, Mrs Killy and Mrs Fenwick

Phonics

Phonics Revision 1

Phonics Revision 2

Phonics Revision 3

Phonics Revision 4

Phonics Revision 5

Maths

Maths Place Value

 

Story writing, alien words and Christmas music!

Dear Parents and Carers

This week the children’s homework is slightly different to normal. Spelling Shed and Maths shed can both be accessed, but I haven’t set any specific work. Instead you can find revision PowerPoints on this blog post to help the children prepare for the phonics screening check. It will be completed in a few weeks and all of the children are well prepared. Look through some of the previous tests with the children at home and help them to practise any words they are still finding tricky.

This week the children have written excellent stories based on our book Journey. The children were fully immersed in their imaginative worlds that they created and all wrote exciting stories based in these worlds. In maths, we completed our work on addition and subtraction by looking at number bonds to 100 and adding three 1-digit numbers together. Next week, we will be moving onto money. In Science, the children learnt about the basic needs of humans and other animals required for survival. We will be moving onto learning about healthy diets, the names of different animal offspring and how we can stay fit and active.

In music, the children continued learning out song, ‘Ho Ho Ho’. Miss Luetchford has agreed to let us sing it in our Christmas celebration which the children are excited about. In topic, we wrote postcards as if we had been to the Isle of Wight. The children talked about all of the things they have learnt to create convincing recounts of their imaginary holidays to the south of England. In Art, we looked at drawing and colouring in landscapes. The children practising mixing different colours together when colouring with pastels.

I was also pleased to hear that the children worked fantastically well and their behaviour was brilliant while I was away earlier this week, well done everyone!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mr Stocking and Mrs Killy

Year 2 Phonics-Screening-Check-2013-Childrens-Materials-Powerpoint

Year 2 Phonics-Screening-Check-2014-Childrens-Materials-Powerpoint

Year 2 Phonics-Screening-Check-Childrens-Materials-PowerPoint

A brand new Journey!

Dear Parents and Carers

The children have returned to school this week ready to continue their learning with excellent energy and enthusiasm. They have showed excellent resilience in these difficult times and I am very proud of all of them.

This week we have started looking at our new story ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker. It is a wordless picture book that has already inspired fantastic and imaginative writing from all the children. Using Journey (and it’s sequels Quest and Return) we will be writing stories, acrostic poems, wanted posters and letters over the course of this half term.

You can watch the story with your child here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9VfGbDezuc

In maths, we have been learning how to complete 2 digit addition and subtraction. The children have been learning the column method in conjunction with the practical methods they already know. We will be doing more of this next week to consolidate the children’s learning.

In RE, we have been thinking about Remembrance Day. The children made their own poppy wreaths that you will be able to see below. In Science, we have started to learning about animals and humans. This week we recapped some of our learning from Year 1 on the different animal groups. In music, we looked at our new Christmas themed song for this half term. In geography, we started looking at Australia, and comparing landmarks and features in Australia and the Isle of Wight.

Spellingshed has been set for this week, I have also showed the children exactly which lessons to complete on maths shed if they want to practise their addition and subtraction at home.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mr Stocking and Mrs Killy

Architects, Historians and Dancers!

Dear Parents and Carers

We have come to the end of our first half term in Year 2, and I would like to start by saying a big thank you for how well everyone has adapted to this new school year, it is different, but we’re trying to keep it as normal as possible for the children.

It was lovely to see lots of you at parents evening, and I wanted to clarify some things about the phonics screening test I spoke about to all of you, as I have been told there has been some confusion. The phonics screening is a national requirement for Year 1 children to sit, and it happens every year. As all school testing was cancelled in the last school year due to Covid, it has been rescheduled for the end of this term. If your child doesn’t pass it then, they will have another go at the end of Year 2; again, this is the standard procedure. We are doing all we can in school to make this as easy as possible for everyone, and to ensure that every child is supported appropriately.

With this in mind, the children have brought home a small pack of resources to help you to help them practise at home. They also came home today with the parents evening notes. These are not school reports, and are simply a record of what was said at the meeting. Because of these resources being sent home, I have not set any specific spellings on Spelling Shed this week, but both Spelling Shed and Maths Shed can still be accessed if your child would like to use them.

This week the children have written information pages linked to our topic. They have built Jewish Sukkahs, celebrating the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot (linked to our R.E. topic of Judaism). In maths, we have been learning how to add and subtract when crossing the tens. We have been using dienes to visualise exchanging ones into tens, and vice versa.  In History, we learnt about Rosa Parks, looking at her life and how an ordinary person did extraordinary things. In P.E., we continued our dance lessons, with the children creating their own dance sequences.

I hope you all have a lovely and restful half term,

Mr Stocking and Mrs Killy