April 18^th March 2017

We hope that you all have a fantastic, well-deserved break. It is hard to believe that we are almost ready to begin our final term in Year 2! Please continue to read over the Easter break.

Our key learning objectives for our first week back will be as follows.

Maths: we will be interpreting different graphs and using bar graphs and pictograms to ask questions about data.

Reading- We will be continuing to read The Twits by Roald Dahl.

Writing- we will be writing our final draft of our healthy living leaflets using our plans.

We will also be doing a reading comprehension paper.

SPaG- our focus will be on spellings. We will be looking at words that end in le/ el and il/al.

Science- Our science topic this term is living things and their habitats.

We are continuing with our ‘How Are You?’ topic which has lots of links with history, art, georgraphy and PSHE.

PE: ball skills.

RE-Our RE topic this term is Christianity.

Music- Year 2 will continue to have ministrings on Friday afternoons. Please remember to collect your child from the dining hall on this day.

 Maths objectives that you could help with at home:

• Relationships between addition and subtraction (fact families)
• Counting on and back in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s (to help with multiplication and division).
• Quick recall of number bonds to 20/ 100.
• Quick recall of doubles and halves to 100.
• Reading scales with intervals, for example when weighing ingredients.
• Finding ways of making amounts of money using coins.

 

• SPaG objectives that you could help with at home:

• Homophones- words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning. For example: they’re, there and their / to, too and two.
• Spelling the year 2 common exception words.
• Adding suffixes to root words (ing, est, er, ly, ful etc).
• Adding conjunctions (joining words) between clauses e.g. and, then, so, because, when, if.
• Adding adjectives (describing words) to simple sentences.
• Exclamatory sentences. These start with ‘what’ or ‘how’, must include a verb and have an exclamation mark at the end. For example: ‘What a beautiful hat you are wearing today!’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 27^th 2017

Our key learning objectives next week will be:

Maths- this week we are going to have a strong focus on reasoning and problem solving in relation to place value.

Reading- We will be continuing to read The Twits by Roald Dahl.

Writing- we are going to be doing some shared writing before planning and writing our own information leaflets about healthy living.

SPaG- our focus this week is on homophones. These are words that sound the same but have a different spelling and meaning.

Science- Our science topic this term is variation.

Our new topic for this half-term is How Are You? Links with history, art, georgraphy and PSHE.

PE- We will be developing our ball skills and working on invasion games.

RE-Our RE topic this term is Christianity.

Music- Year 2 will continue to have ministrings on Friday afternoons. Please remember to collect your child from the dining hall on this day.

 Maths objectives that you could help with at home:

• Relationships between addition and subtraction (fact families)
• Counting on and back in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s (to help with multiplication and division).
• Quick recall of number bonds to 20/ 100.
• Quick recall of doubles and halves to 100.
• Reading scales with intervals, for example when weighing ingredients.
• Finding ways of making amounts of money using coins.

 

• SPaG objectives that you could help with at home:

• Spelling the year 2 common exception words.
• Adding suffixes to root words (ing, est, er, ly, ful etc).
• Adding conjunctions (joining words) between clauses e.g. and, then, so, because, when, if.
• Adding adjectives (describing words) to simple sentences.
• Exclamatory sentences. These start with ‘what’ or ‘how’, must include a verb and have an exclamation mark at the end. For example: ‘What a beautiful hat you are wearing today!’