Year 2
Rabbits (Miss McCauslin and Mrs Bevan), Otters (Mrs Reilly and Mrs Huggett) and Badgers (Miss Mears and Miss Wilson)
Meet The Teacher 2024
| Year 2 Learning |
Week beginning: Monday 9 December 2024
English - The children will be writing a letter of apology from a character in a Christmas advert.
Maths - The children will be learning about addition and subtraction.
Foundation Subjects for this half term
Geography - This half term the children will be learning how to locate the Arctic and Antartica on a map and learning about their physical and human features.
History - The children will be learning about what happened after the Great Fire of London.
Science - The children will be learning about living things and their habitats.
PE - The children will develop and apply their footwork and one leg balances.
RE - The children will be answering the key question: 'why is light an important symbol for Christians and Jews?'
PSD - This half term's Unit is 'Celebrating Differences'.
Computing - The children will be learning about algorithmns and using Scratch Junior.
Music - The children will be singing, listening and playing instruments.
DT - The children will be designing and making a fire vehicle with wheels and axles.
| Spellings and Homework |
Spellings
Autumn 2
Maths
Autumn 2
| Ways to help your child |
During the parent-teacher consultations, parents often asked how they can help their child at home. Below are the resources that were discussed with the year 2 staff that you might like to work on over the next few weeks. Please select the resources which are suited to your child if you would like to complete any additional learning. Note that this is optional and these resources have been provided to support parents.
1) Phonics screen resources
The BBC Bitesize website has videos to support the phase 3 phonics we have been revising this half term.
Phonics Play also have some free games which involve reading real and 'alien' words. You can choose all of the phases up to Phase 5. Click on the pictures to play the games.
You can also look a the printable resources below - or use them on screen. Practise reading the individual graphemes or try to blend them in the phonic screen resources.
2) Common exception words
This is the list of words your child should be able to read and spell by the end of Year 2. Below is a game to help them spell them - pick either Year 1 or Year 2. Also there is a printable list of the words you can practise with your child.
3) Letter formation
A lot of children in Year 2 have some strange ways of forming their letters. We have been doing a lot of work on getting the correct formation. Below are some printable resources you can use. Twinkl also have a guide to using the resources here on YouTube.
4) Writing sentences
Use these prompts to write sentences. Encourage your child to write either one or two grammatically correct sentences, including a capital letter and a full stop. They should read each sentence back to make sure it makes sense. It is better to focus on writing a little and often.
5) Number formation
Getting numbers around the correct way is really important. If your child is still reversing numbers such as 5, you can use the sheets below to practise numbers. You can also use this YouTube video from former Greswold teacher Mrs Johnson for ways to help get the numbers around the correct way.
6) Counting
Counting back and forwards in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s is a useful skill. Your child can use the 100 square below to practise their counting.
7) Number facts
We have previously set these number facts as homework. Knowing them off by heart is very useful, so you could continue to practise these with your child.
Maths Games
| Useful Websites and Videos |
Finding out about Kenya
Physical Geography
Human Geography
| Class Routines |
Each day your child should bring:
• Coat
• Water bottle
• Trainers (These are for the Daily dash and outdoor PE. They can be left on their pegs to change into when needed)
• Book bag (if it is their book bag day starting w.b. 19.9.22)
| Indoor PE day | Outdoor PE day | |
| Come to school dressed in: | • White PE t-shirt
Bring black pumps / plimsolls to change into (or bare feet). These can be left in school. | • White PE t-shirt • Blue PE sweatshirt • Navy / black joggers • White socks • Shoes / trainers for wearing outside and around school |
| For lessons your child will wear: | • White PE t-shirt • Blue PE shorts • White socks • Pumps / bare feet | • White PE t-shirt • Blue PE sweatshirt • Navy / black joggers • Trainers (kept in school for Daily Dash) |
| Term | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | ||
| Learning Theme | The Great Fire of London | Africa | Minibeasts | |||||
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| Science | Materials | Living things | Animals including humans | Animals including humans with a focus on a healthy lifestyle | Plants | Micro Habitats | ||
Personal & Social Development | Being me in my world | Celebrating difference | Dreams and goals | Healthy me | Relationships | The Great Growing up Adventure | ||
| Religious Education | How do we know what choices to make? | Why is light an important symbol for Christians and Jews? | Why is Jesus inspiring to some people? | How can we respond to the Easter story? | What happens during worship at a church and synagogue? | What does it mean to belong to a faith community? | ||
| Physical Education | Dance
Football | Coordination and Balance Throwing and catching | Gymnastics
Infant Agility | Racket and ball skills
Cognitive | sports day skills
Target games
| Coordination and balance
Olympics | ||
| Art & Design | Drawing & painting | Famous artists - Lowry | Colour mixing | African art | Famous artists - Matisse | Sculpture | ||
| Geography | Polar Regions | Africa | Mapping Skills | |||||
| History | The Great Fire of London | Who is the greatest history maker? | ||||||
| Music | Singing, chanting & rhyming | Playing tuned and untuned instruments - glockenspiels | Composing | |||||
| Computing | Keeping safe on the internet Scratch Junior | Algorhythms Computer art | Keyboard skills Stop motion animation | |||||
| Design & Technology | Mechanisms - Wheels & axles
Food technology - Winter soup | Textiles - It's a puppet! | Structures - stronger, stiffer, stable | |||||