Year 2 Looking Back and Forth 19th November
Friday 12th November 2021 – Looking Back & Forth in Year 2
Looking back:
We have written some amazing stories this week, full of noun phrases, interesting verbs, conjunctions and more! The children have loved this book and it’s been great to see this enthusiasm. We continue to read every day either in small groups or as a whole class. Reading is part of almost every lesson we do and it has been great to see how everyone is improving. In maths we have continued to work on subtraction and used our own number-lines.
In Science we investigated materials around school and began to look at their properties. Some were flexible, shiny or made a ringing sound. In history we looked at the children’s homes and identified the type of house, before making a human timeline to build on their understanding of the concept of time and history. PE has seen us enjoy gymnastics with the sports coaches. The children have also enjoyed geography, music, nativity songs and zumba.
Year 2 – Pupils’ Highlights:
- The River story
- Spelling quiz
- Reading
- Subtracting
- A human time line
Family discussion questions:
- Ask your child what they know now about different types of materials
Looking forward:
- Reading books will be changed on Monday. Please ensure your child has their pack with them every day.
- Nativity songs
- Multiplication
- Editing and publishing the story
- Houses through History
- Science -materials
- Parents' Evenings this week after school. These are face to face for one parent. Please wear a mask and test before coming into school. Thank you.
- Raffle tickets for the festive hampers are £1 a strip. Please send the correct money to school in a named envelope and I will send the tickets home in the reading folder. They look amazing so please support if you are able.
Homework in Year 2
Please ensure all homework is completed and do let me know if you have any concerns
Maths: counting fluency work for Friday and ongoing
English: reading comprehension
Spellings: sheet sent home for the quiz on Friday.
Please read with your child every day. Many children are decoding their reading books well but find answering the comprehension questions much harder. We are working on this at school but it will really help if you can also ask questions during home question time. Please see our class page for further ideas (files section).