Week commencing
March 27th 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!’