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Year 2 Class Blog 2020-2021

Week 4

25/11/2020

 

Dear Parents, 

I loved seeing you at parents evening. Thank you for taking the time and effort in your busy evenings to connect. It was great to have such constructive conversations about the children's academic and social progress. I look forward to seeing the rest of you on Tuesday 1st Dec.

For those of you who had technological issues, I look forward to seeing you at our rescheduled times. Considering it was Virginia's first ever zoom parent teacher conference I am very impressed by the overall success. 
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We have also LOVED seeing all the musical instruments that they have been making at home. 
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Maths Homework

For maths this week, the children are adding amounts of money. If they are finding it tricky to add the amounts mentally, they can use this interactive base-ten tool to help them. 

 apps.mathlearningcenter.org/number-pieces/

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Spellings 

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Can you write each one in a sentence? ​
Poetry Slam! 

We have been practising Spike Milligan's 'On the Ning Nang Nong' for poetry slam this half term. The children have asked if they can practise home so we have given them copies of the poem. An audio recording of the poem can be reached by clicking on the poem. 

Enjoy! 
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And finally, I think I can retire early! Rayyan has taken over my job and is enthusiastically teaching his friends sight words! Thanks, Rayyan! 

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Anti - Bullying Week

18/11/2020

 
Dear Parents, 

We loved the children's odd socks combinations on Monday and we have been extremely impressed by their emotional literacy as they have given their insights while we have worked through various Anti-Bullying themed activities this week. We have used resources from the Anti-Bullying alliance and BigFoot theatre company to facilitate some great conversations. 


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Spellings

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Challenge: Can you change the verbs from past to the future tense? 

Make up a sentence for each one.
​You could write it down or say it out loud to someone in your family. 

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We absolutely LOVE all the extra bits of homework that come in from home, we are especially enjoying the musical instruments and the musical themed stories that the children are writing. We know they take lots of patience and time on your part to facilitate so we want to say thank you. 

We are looking forward to seeing you (virtually) at parent's evening next week. 

All the best, 
​
The Year 2 Team. 

Week 2 - Homework

11/11/2020

 

Children in Need Day!

We had great fun this morning joining in with Joe Wick's 24 hour work out! We found out that Joe raised one million pounds for children in need!!!! WOW!! Thank you, parents, for your financial contributions and for sending the kids in their snuggliest PJs! They all look very cute. 
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A Message from the Student Council 

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Dear Parents,

Next week is Anti-Bullying week and Virginia Primary School Council would like everyone at Virginia to show their commitment to Anti-Bullying by wearing... ODD SOCKS! 

Your child can choose their most mis-matched socks to wear to school on Monday 16th Nov. 

We look forward to seeing their crazy combinations! 

Thank you for your support, 

The School Council. 

Maths Homework 

In Maths this week, the children have been using mental strategies such as number bonds and doubles to add together three one-digit numbers. This exercise will help them practise those skills. 
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<-----They can try this magic square as an extra challenge! 

They need to: 

​Write the numbers 1 to 9 in each of the squares below, so that each row, column and diagonal adds up to 15.

Next week in Maths we will be moving onto money! It would be great to spend some time over the weekend discussing money with your child and maybe taking them to the shops to participate in the shopping process. 

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Reading 

We hope the children are enjoying their reading and feeling appropriately challenged by the books being sent home. Please do feed back to us via their reading records. Your observations are very useful to us. 

That's all for now! 

Have a lovely weekend.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon (virtually) for Virginia's first ever Zoom parents' evening! 
The Year 2 Team. 

Welcome to Autumn Term 2

4/11/2020

 

Our First Week Back 

Our first week back has been a busy one! The children have been introduced to our key text for this half term, 'The Bear and the Piano' by David Litchfield. They have made predictions about the text based on some objects that relate to the front cover and used the beginning of the story to learn about conjunctions and contractions. This term we will be responding the the text in many ways and they will build the skills to re-write the story with their own characters and settings. 
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In maths, they have been using their knowledge of base ten to add and subtract, mainly focusing on number bonds to 10, 20 and 100. 

Topic Homework 

 Our topic this half term is 'Music Makers'! As you will know from the newsletter, we will be listening to a range of different kinds of music and thinking about where different genres originate from and the history of music technology. In Science, we will investigate the science of sound. 

This topic take-away menu is optional but can be used as a starting point if you would like to do extra homework with your child. You can also use it to supplement home learning in the case that your family needs to self isolate. 
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If anyone in your family bubble is musical please let us know by sending an email via Joan as we would love your contribution to our learning this half term. 

Maths Homework

This week we have been learning how to represent number bonds using a bar model. This activity will help to consolidate your child's understanding of the bar model. They need to find the value of the blank bar. For example, the answer to the first one is 12 because 12 + 8 = 20. If they are finding it difficult to recall the number facts, they can use a set of 20 objects (pasta pieces, beads, wooden blocks or anything else you have to hand) to solve the problems practically. 
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Spellings 

Our spellings this half term will again relate to our topic and our key text. The children will apply the vocabulary learned in their story telling later in the term. 
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Reading

So that children can practise reading over the weekend, we will hand out reading books on Friday going forward. Please remind your child to hand their book back in by Wednesday so that we have time to disinfect and change the reading books. 
Many thanks. 

That's all for now! 

If we can support you and your family in any way through Lockdown 2 please don't hesitate to reach out. 
Have a peaceful weekend, 
The Year 2 Team. 

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