Year 2

Weekly Update

Friday 17th June 2022

Dear Parents,

We hope you are all well.

In English the children have been writing our innovations of our text The Great Kapok Tree. Next week we will begin our next text Meerkat Mail.

In Maths, we have been recapping fractions and time. Next week we will be recapping time.

In Science, we have been learning about how habitats are suited to different animals & plants. Next week we will exploring local habitats.

Homework:

Phonics- If you would like to support your child further in their phonics knowledge the link will take you to a video showing the pure pronunciation of phonemes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhXUW_v-1s

Please continue to practice sounding out and blending words at home.

Maths work at home -

Please practice telling the time to o’clock, half past, quarter to, quarter past as well as time in 5 minute intervals for both analogue clocks and digital clocks. Counting in 2s,5s and 10s as well as adding and subtracting up to 100.

Spellings- Please work with your child and help them to learn the year 2 common exception words and practice spellings at home. Encourage your child to use their diagraphs and trigraphs to help them.

Reading:

Please continue to read with your child as much as possible, please ensure your child’s yellow reading record book is brought into school each day in their home learning folder. Please make use of our online resource bug club, if you need your child’s log in details please contact/ ask your child’s teacher.

Reminders:

If you are able to help facilitate any of the following swimming lessons we would be very grateful. Please note that Year 2 have 2 swimming sessions as they had 4 sessions in the Autumn term, every year group has a total of 6 for this academic year.

Monday 4^th July

Friday 8^th July

Friday 15^th July

Monday 18^th July

Green class

9-10:30

Turquoise class

10:30 - 12

Turquoise class

10:30 - 12

Green class

9-10:30

Violet class 10:30 – 11

PE days are now as follows; ALL classes have Dance on a Monday, Turquoise has PE on WEDNESDAYS and Violet & Green have PE on FRIDAYS.
Please can all children bring a NAMED sun hat and water bottle to school as the weather becomes warmer.
Please can all children remove earrings before dance and PE.
Please could all water bottles, snack pots and jumpers/cardigans brought into school be NAMED, we are finding lots of items that have no names and children are unable to identify them.
Please can we remind parents/carers to select their child’s lunch prior to the start of the school day as this takes away from our learning time in the morning.

If you are unsure of how to access/use showbie please follow this link and It provides instructions for this. https://support.showbie.com/en/articles/3790477-joining-a-class-as-a-student

If you have any queries or questions for your child’s class teacher, please send an email to:

year2@eastwick.thpt.org.uk

Thank you for your continued support,

The Year 2 Team

Curriculum Maps

Curriculum maps will be updated on a half-termly basis in 2021-22.

Autumn 1 2021-22	Spring 1 2021-22	Summer 1 2021-22
Autumn 2 2021-22	Spring 2 2021-22	Summer 2 2021-22

Curriculum Information 2021-22

Year 2 Curriculum Presentation 2021

Year 2 Home Learning

To contact the Year 2 Team, please use this email address: year2@eastwick.thpt.org.uk.

Resources

English

Bug Club: Please do log on and read the books and try the phonics games. If you complete the books, we can upload more. Don’t forget to explore this website as there are grammar and phonics activities to be accessed.

https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0

Spelling: https://www.sirlinkalot.org/ This spelling site is offering the opportunity for parents to download an app with a free subscription.

Phonics:

Phonics guide for home learning

Keep practising your Phonics – play some of the games, try learning ‘ed’ endings playing Past Tense Penguin.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Phonics Songs: Here are some songs you can listen to help you with your phonics, learning about connectives and suffix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2Ff8H7oVo&safe=active – ly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPoBE-E8VOc&safe=active – Conjunction Junction

Live author streams: https://www.culturewhisper.com/r/immersive/live_streams_for_kids/15296

Free audiobooks: https://www.storynory.com/

Free e-books: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?fbclid=IwAR32--2tIvuFT7sic5GnESJCx73Jn1YqBjbzkgEWEQmnS4nf8Wrd2IIOEiA