Year 2
Dahl Class - 2K Bryon Class - 2M
Teachers: Mrs Maund and Miss Keeling
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Banks and Mrs Buczkowska
Welcome to our Year 2 Newsletter for Term 4. We can’t believe we are halfway through Year 2 already! We have an exciting term planned with some great events for you to get involved with too, such as book week! We look forward to working together with you to support your child in their continued learning journey.
Please take a look at our curriculum for term 4 below and continue to support your child with their understanding of these areas of learning at home. We really appreciate all you do with your children at home. It makes such a big difference to their understanding and capability in school.
Please also refer to the termly newsletter for further information. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us on the Year 2 email account - year2@kingsnorth.kent.sch.uk.
THIS WEEK'S SPELLINGS: spelling test on :
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HOME LEARNING:
In order to support children's learning, we will be giving out weekly home learning tasks, which include: spelling, reading and maths tasks.
There is no expectation that this will all be completed. Please try to do as much as you can. This is so you know the learning taking place in class and can support your child to consolidate their understanding.
Home learning activities will go out on Fridays and will be due in on the following Friday. A copy of our weekly home learning can be found uploaded on our class page.
Spelling tests are now every Friday.
MATHS
In Maths we will be learning about grouping objects in different ways and relating this to doubling, halving and division. The children would benefit from regularly practising their 2, 5- and 10-times tables. Apps such as Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS), Whiterose, 1-minute maths and games such as ‘Hit the Button’ will help with their speed of recall.
White Rose 1-min Maths
www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
ENGLISH
Writing:
The children will continue with Read, Write Inc. lessons alongside daily Writing lessons which are planned through Writing for Pleasure. Our grammar focus continues with capitalisation and punctuation. Similar to last term, handwriting is very important in Year 2 and children will be encouraged to form their letters neatly. Year 2 children will also work on daily spelling tasks.
Attached below is a list of common exception words as well as high-frequency words. We would really appreciate your support in helping your child practise spelling these words so that they are confident in both reading and writing them independently.
We are often asked how you can support your child with writing at home. Here are a few ideas that will support your child in both their creativity and in practising the structure and content of various genres:
- Write a letter or postcard to someone
- Write a shopping list or a wish list
- Write a recipe or instructions on how to do something
- Keep a diary, updating it regularly
- Write a familiar story in your own words *maybe even change some of the elements i.e. character, setting etc.
Reading:
Please continue to listen to your child read daily at home and ask them questions about the story to develop their reading skills. Skills such as prediction and retelling are important along with answering inference questions. Children on AR are encouraged to complete quizzes at home before starting a new book.
The video below will help you to understand how to say each of the sounds from Set 1 to Set 3. It would be really beneficial for you to watch this to support you with your child's learning.
https://schools.ruthmiskin.com/training/view/3rQRQmLf/1PKrKlSi
For Accelerated Readers, here is the website link for completing the AR quizzes:
RE:
Why does Easter matter to Christians? In RE this term, we will be exploring Christianity. This will involve learning the Easter story and exploring why it is so important to Christians, as well as finding out what salvation means.
SCIENCE:
What is the life cycle of different animals, including humans?
We will be exploring various animals and their life cycles. This will include looking at the stages from birth to adult within humans as well as a variety of animals.
PE:
In PE, we follow the TLG scheme of learning. Below is a yearly overview of the topics your child will cover in Year 2.
Our units across this term will be Gymnastics and Net and Wall. PE is on Tuesdays and Fridays. Your child can wear their PE kit throughout the day. It would be useful if your child could wear shorts under their tracksuit bottoms as having bare legs helps them to climb and move around the apparatus more easily.
PSHE:
Healthy Me
We follow Jigsaw for our PSHE learning. This term we will be focusing on "Healthy me." We will explore how we can keep ourselves healthy in body and mind and the importance of positive relationships.
Geography:
Coasts
Our humanities subject for this term will be Geography. Following on from our work on the oceans and continents, we will be looking at coasts.