Spellings:
This week we have been learning about adding -s/-es to words to make them plural.For example:
shops, pots, hats, dogs, cats, flowers.

We learnt that when a word ends in ch, sh, s, ss, x, or z, we add -es instead. 
For example:
fox - foxes, watch - watches, hutch - hutches.

We then looked at pluralising irregular nouns and the rules above do not apply!
Tooth - teeth, foot - feet, sheep - sheep, child - children, person - people.

Reading:
Please read daily with your adults and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'Invitation to a Party' book, your banded book or a book from home. 
Please ensure you return your 'Invitation to a Party' book on Monday as we will be sending our our new class reader - Anna's Homework.

Maths:
Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
You can now access TT Rockstars using the TT Rockstars website - your login is the same as your Numbots Login. I have limited the times tables you can practise to your 2's, 5's and 10's. Have fun!
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables and lots of other maths games on Topmarks!
Hit the Button Game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button 

This week we have had a brilliant week learning a bit more about our new whole class reader, 'Rapunzel'. We have learnt a little bit about the main character, who is not your usual fairy princess. The children have read a few pages of the book, and we have stopped to write a character description.

The children have worked really hard to show us their fantastic writing skills, I have really enjoyed marking them over the weekend and seeing the progress in their writing!

In Maths this week, the children have been learning more about fractions - we have looked at 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3's of shapes and amounts, and have challenged the children to find the whole if they are only given a part! 

In PE this week we have practised throwing beanbags at targets and throw, clap, catching the beanbags to develop our throwing skills. The children particularly enjoyed dance this week, where we introduced some words and asked them to use their bodies to express these. They loved 'creeping' and 'stepping' to the Pink Panther theme tune, using their bodies at different levels to portray the music in a variety of different ways. We are looking forward to developing these sequences and adding in some more movements next week!

Have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team
 

Spellings:
Please continue to consolidate the spellings we have been learning throughout the half term.
words starting with 'wh' making the 'w' sound - whistle, whale, whine.
words starting with 'wr' making the 'r' sound - wrist, wrong, wrinkle.
words with split digraph endings - cake, theme, bike, phone, tune.
adding suffixes to split digraph words (bake - baking) - drop the 'e' add the suffix.

words ending in -le: table, stable, apple
words ending in -el: level, label, 
words ending in -il: until, evil, devil
words ending in -al: mental, royal, arrival
adding suffixes to words ending in -y: 
happy - happier - happiest
cry - cries - cried
adding endings to single syllable words ending in a vowel/consonant:
pat - patted, fun - funny, spot - spotting.

Y2 Common Exception words: revise all Y2 common exception words.

Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'The Dreams of Moxie Mouse and Cat Capone' book, your banded book or a book from home. We will be changing your books on the first Monday back after half term, and your child will receive their new shared reading book 'An Invitation to a Party'.

Maths:
Please practice Numbots 40 minutes weekly.
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

The children have been incredibly creative this week, in Art we have finished our final pieces of 'Frottage Collage' in which they drew and painted a water droplet, linked with our Global Learning Goal 'Clean Water and Sanitation'. They then added a range of 'frottage' through the form of rubbings around the classroom and school environment to add tone, tint and texture to their finished droplet.

In DT the children finished their final pieces of their mechanisms, they chose a character from our Class Reader 'The Lonely Beast' and decided whether they wanted to make their character into a Lever, using a pivot, or a slider, using a slot. The children's finished products looked fantastic and they were so proud to share their creations with you all today.

We loved having you all in this afternoon for Koinonia, the children were so excited to share their learning from this half term with you.

Thank you for all of your hard work and support, we look forward to welcoming the children back on the 24th February after a well earned rest.

Take care,

The Year 2 Team.

Spellings:
New Y2 spellings: Adding endings to single-syllable words ending in a single consonant (e.g. pat/patted)
Please practise the following words:
patted
skipped
hopped
ripped
tripped
trapped

Y2 Common Exception words: could, would, should
Contraction: couldn't, shouldn't, wouldn't
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'The Dreams of Moxie Mouse and Cat Capone' book, your banded book or a book from home. 
Maths:
Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

This week has been a very busy week in Year 2!
The children LOVED our Computing lesson where we learnt how to send and receive emails, as well as drawing pictures and adding attachments to our emails - we emailed Baby Bear, Anna and Doug about a range of different topics including Healthy Lunches, Celebrations and our favourite sports.

Some of the children enjoyed learning about how we get our clean water delivered to our houses. The water goes to a Water Treatment Centre where it goes through different stages to be filtered and cleaned properly.

The children also loved our English lessons this week where we have focussed on writing setting descriptions using expanded noun phrases and extending our sentences using conjunctions!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Miss Freeman and the Year 2 Team

Spellings:
New Y2 spellings: Words ending in: -al/-il
Please practise the following words:
total, arrival, local, royal, hospital
pupil, devil, evil, April, lentil
Y2 Common Exception words: father, past*, fast*, last*
Contraction: wasn't/isn't
Reading:
Please read daily with your adult and log it on Boom Reader.
You can read your 'Why do stars twinkle?' book, your banded book or a book from home. 
Maths:
Please practice Numbots 30 minutes weekly.
You can also practise your 2, 5 and 10x tables on Topmarks - Hit the Button Game 
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

We've had another busy week this week in year two and enjoyed lots of our learning.

The children have enjoyed learning lots of new skills in PE this week, in netball we have been practising three different passes - the chest pass, the shoulder pass and the bounce pass. The children have been developing their accuracy and we will be putting these into practise next week when we look at passing and moving to get the ball around the court.

We have had fun introducing the concept of division in our Maths learning. The children have learnt about arrays and making equal groups to divide numbers accurately.

In RE we have learnt about the story of the Crying Camel and been introduced to Bismallah in our topic of Islam, and have found out that Allah teaches Muslims to show compassion to everyone we meet, no matter who they are and how big or small they may be.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 2 Team

Spellings - this week is a Review and Consolidation Week. We will be going over all the rules we have learnt this half term. Please look back at previous blogs if you would some words to practice. Or practice the Common Expeception Words for Year 2 (wild, child, gold, climb, find, water, beautiful, because, people, again. These are just some examples). 

Maths - numbats 

Reading - please read daily and record on boom reader