Home Learning
7.2.25
We have loved seeing all the different activities coming into school in the children's Home Learning books from wanted posters to yummy gingerbread men. We can see lots of children are also working hard on securing arithmetic methods on their maths practice sheets.
This week in maths, we have continued to work on representing data in pictograms and answer questions about most/ least popular and comparing how many more or fewer one item has than another by finding the difference. This skill is something that does need practice and reinforcement. We have learnt to look really carefully at the key as sometimes the pictures represent 1, 2, 5 or even 10 items. The children have used their knowledge of 2.5 and 10 times tables to support with this. We have also just begun our new topic of fractions by recongising fractions as equal parts. We will continue working on shading, recognising and writing fractions of shapes (halves, quarters and thirds) next week.
This week's maths task is further arithmetic practice. A sheet can be found in the front of your child's Home Learning book. Please encourage your children to show their working out and glue/ tape their sheets into their Home Learning book at home.
For spellings this week, please continue to work on practising spelling your child's indiviudal Y1 and 2 Common Exception words that they are working on. We are currently checking the children's spellings, so an updated sheet will be sent home before half term so you can see your child's progress with these.
Remember to read and share stories each night- reading is key to the rest of the curriculum!
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
31.1.25
This week, we have been introduced to collecting, recording and interpreting data. The children have collected data about an array of things from transport to school to favourite puddings! We have been using tally chart, block charts and pictograms (or picture graphs) to represent our data. We have discussion most popular and least popular options and have been comparing options to decide how many more/fewer one option has than the other. This has been tricky for some children: we have discussed it as a 'finding the difference' and subtracting the part that is the same to work out the difference and using blocks to help us physically break off the part that is the same. Any additional practice at home would be benefical on an ongoing basis.
You can create pictograms here: https://www.j2e.com/jit5#pictogram
This week's maths home learning task is futher arithemtic practice as being secure on the four operations ( +, -, x and divide) is crucial. An arithmetic sheet has been put in your child's Home Learning book.
Please continue to practise Y1 and 2 Common Exception words for weekly spellings and reading little and often each night.
Thank you for your support.
The Y2 Team
24.1.25
The children have been working exceptionally hard since their return and enjoying our new topic 'Once upon a time'. We have put a copy of this half term's Home Learning Grid in the front of your child's Home Learning book. It is always wonderful to see the variety of activities that come back into school!
During maths this week, we have been continuing our work on 'measure'. The children have been measuring mass in grams and kilograms, using balance scales to compare the mass of objects and have been practising using the scale on weighing scales to record the mass of an object (g and kg). We have also been working on reading thermometers to record and compare temperatures. Please continue to practise at any opportunity at home!
This week's maths task is arithmetic practice for further consolidation of Y2 arithmetic methods. It can be found in the front cover of your child's Home Learning book. Please ask your child to show their working out for column addition and subtraction. They may use drawings of the sharing or grouping method for division.
Take a look at which book your child has chosen as their Borrow Book. They always look forward to bringing this book home and sharing it with you!
Thank you for your support.
The Year Two Team
17.1.25
During maths this week, we have continued to work on our knowledge of measuring length in centimetres and metres.The children have also been working on solving 'mesaure' related word problems including applying the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We have reinforced using known methods to calculate including column methods for addition and subtracion and using drawings for multiplication and division.
This week's maths task is arithmetic practice for further consolidation of Y2 arithmetic methods. It can be found in the front cover of your child's Home Learning book. Please ask your child to show their working out for column addition and subtraction. They may use drawings of the sharing or grouping method for division.
For spellings this week, please continue to practice your child's individual Y1 and Y2 Common Exception words.
Take a look at your child's reading books they have chosen and brought home this week. Practising each night is crucial in supporting your child develop their reading fluency and comprehension.
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
10.1.25
Welcome back and happy new year! We hope you all had a lovely Chrismas break.The children have enthusiastically started our new topic 'Once Upon a Time' and are looking forward to lots of fairy tale related activities. This half term's Home Learning grid has been sent home today inside your child's Home Learning book. We cannot wait to see the mix of activities the children choose to do!
During maths this week, we have started our new topic of 'measure'. The children have been busy measuring and recording the length and height of objects in metres and centimetres. We have also begun comparing the lengths of objects using the vocabularly: longer than, shorter than, taller than, shortest, longest and tallest.The children have brought home a maths home learning sheet for additional practice of estimating in cm and measuring in cm using a ruler. Please stick this into Home Learning books and return on Wednesday. The children could also practise using a ruler to draw lines of a set length e.g. 3cm..
For spellings this week, please continue to practice your child's individual Y1 and Y2 Common Exception words.
Take a look at your child's reading books they have chosen and brought home this week. Practising each night is crucial in supporting your child develop their reading fluency and comprehension.
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
6.12.24
This week, we have continued with our topic of division and have been concentrating on making the links between division and multiplication. The children have been practising creating 'fact families' that include two multiplication calculations and two division calculations to match pictures and arrays. We have also been working on division number stories and solving division word problems. For this week's maths task, please login to Doodle (login in front or back cover of your child's Home Learning book) and complete the two division assignments set.
For spellings, please continue to work through your child's individual Y1 and Y2 Common Exception Words.
Don't forget to check which books your child has brought home this week... reading is they key to the rest of the curriculum!
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
29.11.24
This week during maths, we have moved onto the topic of division. The children have been practising dividing by 2, 5 and 10 using grouping and sharing methods. The children are beginning to make links between using 2, 5 and 10 times tables facts to support division. For this week's maths home learning task, please loging into TT Rockstars (logins in front or back covers of Home Learning books) for further recall and reinforcement of 2,5 and 10 times tables and matching division facts.
When you log into TT Rockstars, click on 'single player' and 'Jamming'. Then, scroll down, select multiplication and division. We haved practsed 2s, 5s and 10s.
This week's spelling task is to continue working throgh your child's outstanding Y1 and 2 Common Exception words- keep picking a few each week to work on.
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
22.11.24
This week, we have continued to practise 2, 5 and 10 times tables and write multiplication calculations to solve word problems. For this week's maths home learning, please login into Doodle Tables (same login as Doodle maths). If you are using an iPad/ tablet, download Doodle Tables. We have set 2, 5 and 10 times tables for additional reinforcement.
For spelling practice this week, please continue to work through our Y1 and 2 Common Exception words from your child's individual spelling list.
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
15.11.24
During maths this week, we have continued with our topic of multiplication. The children have een practising making and counting in equal groups of 2, 5 and 10, writing multiplication facts and have been practising 2, 5 and 10 times tables. This week's maths tasks is further times tables practice. Please use your child's Times Tables Rockstars (TT Rockstars) login in their Home Learning book to login and practise times tables recall.
Once logged in, select on 'single player' and 'Jamming'. Then, scroll down, select multiplication only and 2,5 and 10.
For spelling practice, please continue to work through your child's individual outstanding Y1 Common Exception Words and continue choosing some Y2 common exception words to practice too.
Take a look at your child's Borrow Book to share with you and their new books to read to you.
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
8.11.24
Welcome back!
We have begun our new topic 'A Material World' and are looking forward to starting our other topic 'Christmas Around the World' later in the half term. This half term's Home Learning grid has been put inside the front cover of your child's Home Learning book. We can't wait to see which tasks the children choose to do. It is always a nice surprise to see the variety of tasks in Home Learning books each week.
During maths this week, we have begun our topic of multiplication. The children have been introduced to multiplication as equal groups, have been practising making and counting in equal groups of 2, writing multiplication facts and have been practising 2 times tables. This week's maths tasks is further times tables practice. Please use your child's Times Tables Rockstars (TT Rockstars) login in their Home Learning book to login and practise times tables recall.
Once logged in, select on 'single player' and 'Jamming'. Then, scroll down, select multiplication only. We have practised 2s but lots of children have been keen to give 10s and 5s a go too!
For spelling practice, please continue to work through your child's individual outstanding Y1 Common Exception Words and continue choosing some Y2 common exception words to practice too.
Take a look at your child's Borrow Book to share with you and their new books to read to you.
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
18.10.24
This week in maths we have countined with our topic of subtraction. We have continued to practise column subtraction, but this week has moved us onto column subtraction when renaming is required. We have had lots of practical exploration of this using the tens and ones to understand that if there aren't enough ones in the ones, then we have to rename a 10 for 10 ones instead. For Home learning this week, a maths sheet has been put in the front of your child's Home Learning book focusing on column subtraction (some questions involve renaming, whereas others do not). Please follow this link for an explanation video as a reference point for the children: https://youtu.be/Buyaqe_L5-Y?si=8B7VH3F0LVAtjH56.
This method does take lots of patience and practice, but the children are working very hard tp conquer the method!
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
11.10.24
This week in maths, we have moved onto subtraction. We have been practising subtracting through counting backwards on a number line, partitioning numbers into tens and ones to help us subtract and spotting the patterns between subracting in ones and subtracting in tens (e.g. 7-3 = 4 so 70 - 30 = 40). We have also been practising subtracting using column method. This week's maths Home Learning task is further practice of column subtraction. A sheet can be found inside the front cover of your child's Home Learning book.
For this week's spelling task, please continue working through your child's individual Year 1 Common Exception Words from the grids sent home. If they are secure with these words on their own and within a sentence, please begin practising the Y2 words.
Thank you for your support,
The Year 2 Team
4.10.24
This week in maths, we have continued with our topic of addition. We have been practising adding two 2-digit numbers, with renaming. This method does take practice, but the children have been working very hard. This week's maths Home Learning task is further practice of column addition. A sheet can be found inside the front cover of your child's Home Learning book. There is also a video explanation of the method at the bottom of this page.
For this week's spelling task, please continue working through your child's individual Year 1 Common Exception Words from the grids sent home. If they are secure with these words on their own and within a sentence, please begin practising the Y2 words.
Thank you for your support,
The Year 2 Team
27.9.24
This week in maths, we have begun our topic of addition. The children have been making links between adding in ones and adding in tens (if we know 2+3 = 5 then we know 20 + 30 = 50) and have been practising adding two 2-digit numbers using column method.
For this week's maths task, a sheet with a variety of column addition questions has been put inside the front cover of your child's Home Learning book.
For this week's spelling task, please continue working through your child's individual Year 1 Common Exception Words from the grids sent home last week. If they are secure with these words on their own and within a sentence, please begin practising the Y2 words.
Thank you for your support,
The Year 2 Team
20.9,24
This week in maths, we have continued reinforcing our place value knowledge of numbers within 100, have practised partitioning numbers in different ways (e.g. 67 = 60+7 or 50 +17 etc...) and have been practising recognising and completing number patterns. We have been practising counting forwards and backwards on a 100 chart and finding different numbers. The children would benefit from additonal practice using the chart to count forwards and backwards from different starting points, particularly when you cross over into the next set of '10'. This week's Home Learning activity is additional practice of this key skill. Please click on the this link: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue and choose the 'count on and back' option along the top. There is also a Doodle assignment set to practise reading and writing number to 100 in numerals and words.
For this week's spellings, please continue to practise any outstanding Y1 Common Exception Words. We have assessed the children's spelling of Y1 words this week and have put a highlighted sheet of the words in the front cover of your child's Home Learning book, so you can see which words to work on. If your child is spelling all Year 1 words accurately, please begin to practise spelling Y2 words. We have uploaded blank 'look, cover, write, check' sheet if you would like to practise spellings in this way, or you may wish to practise these an alternative way e.g. flashcards, writing in water, writing the spellings in different coloured pens, seeing how many times you can write a word in a set time.
Take a look at your child's Borrow Book that they have chosen. They are always excited to share this with you, along with their own reading books.
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team
13.9.24
We have been working so hard in Year 2! The children have been engrossed with our first topic 'Where We Live'. This half term's Home Learning Grid can be found in the files section and inside the front cover of your child's Home Learning book.
During maths, we have been working very hard on counting within 100, partitioning numbers into tens and ones (e.g. 53 = 50 + 3 or 53 = 5 tens and 3 ones), ordering 2-digit numbers friom greatest to smallest and smallest to greatest and have also been introduced to < and > signs to compare numbers.
This week's maths task has been set as an assignment on Doodle Learning. Please see your child's Home Learning book for their login details. If you have any problems logging in, please email [email protected].
This week's spelling task is reinforcement of Year 1 Common Exception words - overlearning is key for the children to be secure. Click on this link, to practise a range of Y1 Common Exception words.
Take a look at your child's Borrow Book that they have chosen. They are always excited to share this with you, along with their own reading books.
Thank you for your support.
The Year 2 Team