Rowan Year 2 - Miss Jesson
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In Year 2 we have all come back to school eager to learn and ready for new challenges. Rowan class are enthusiastic and positive learners who show increased independence and confidence in the classroom. Year 2 is about becoming even more independent and the children taking responsibility for themselves. The children already know the high expectations that they need to show and this will continue to increase throughout the year.
Take a look at our curriculum map and home learning ideas for our new topic 'Inspiration and Ingenious'.
Useful information:
Spellings:
Each Friday, your child will be sent a set of spellings to learn/ revise over the course of the week. They will be assessed on these spellings on the following Friday. Please send their sheet back into school on the day of the test. Some spellings will be words they can ‘Fred talk’ to spell e.g. th-i-s = this, however some are ‘red’ words that they will just have to learn e.g. after. Many of these red words are words which have a high frequency in the English language so it is important that children learn to spell them correctly.
In order to practise, the children need to:
Homework:
The children will be given a piece of homework to complete around each half term or holiday in their learning journal. There are dos and don'ts of how to present their homework at the front of their learning journal.
As well as this, they will receive a piece of maths or literacy homework each week. This will be handed out on a Friday and will be due in on the following Wednesday. We encourage parents to support their children with their homework but prefer that this work is child led as the homework will reinforce the work that we have been completing in class.
SATs:
I will be responsible for judging the standards that your child is working at by the end of the year. To help inform those judgements, pupils sit national curriculum tests in English and maths, commonly called SATs. These are merely a tool to help measure your child’s performance and identify their needs as they move up to Year 3. The tests will take place during May. I will use the results from these tests, along with the work your child has produced throughout the year, to help me reach my own judgements. As with the phonics screening check in Year 1, your child will not know that they are completing a test.
MyBookBlog:
To increase the children's comprehension and encourage their love of reading, the children will have access to MyBookBlog. Here they can blog, collect facts, take comprehension quizzes and learn new vocabulary linked to books they choose to read themselves. Your child will be able to take a look at the books on offer in the school library. Please encourage your child to talk about and blog about the books they have read and tease out vocabulary when talking to them. The children have already had some experience of MyBookBlog in Year 1 as we have blogged as a class.
Click here to login to MyBookBlog.
Click here to login to TTRockStars.
Click here to login to Oxford Owl.
Take a look at our curriculum map and home learning ideas for our new topic 'Inspiration and Ingenious'.
Useful information:
- PE is on Wednesday and Thursday. Please ensure your child has their named, correct PE kit in school and that earrings are not worn on these days.
- The children have access to their water bottles in the classroom during the day. Please ensure that your child has a named water bottle in school which is taken home regularly to be washed
- Reading books will be changed as regularly as possible. Your child will be responsible for changing their own book - please record the date and title of the book that they have chosen in their reading record. Please also make sure that your child’s reading record is signed to say they have finished their book and read as regularly as you can with them at home.
- Any questions, please come and speak to me!
Spellings:
Each Friday, your child will be sent a set of spellings to learn/ revise over the course of the week. They will be assessed on these spellings on the following Friday. Please send their sheet back into school on the day of the test. Some spellings will be words they can ‘Fred talk’ to spell e.g. th-i-s = this, however some are ‘red’ words that they will just have to learn e.g. after. Many of these red words are words which have a high frequency in the English language so it is important that children learn to spell them correctly.
In order to practise, the children need to:
- Look at the word
- Say it
- Cover it
- Write it
- Check it and edit it (if necessary)
Homework:
The children will be given a piece of homework to complete around each half term or holiday in their learning journal. There are dos and don'ts of how to present their homework at the front of their learning journal.
As well as this, they will receive a piece of maths or literacy homework each week. This will be handed out on a Friday and will be due in on the following Wednesday. We encourage parents to support their children with their homework but prefer that this work is child led as the homework will reinforce the work that we have been completing in class.
SATs:
I will be responsible for judging the standards that your child is working at by the end of the year. To help inform those judgements, pupils sit national curriculum tests in English and maths, commonly called SATs. These are merely a tool to help measure your child’s performance and identify their needs as they move up to Year 3. The tests will take place during May. I will use the results from these tests, along with the work your child has produced throughout the year, to help me reach my own judgements. As with the phonics screening check in Year 1, your child will not know that they are completing a test.
MyBookBlog:
To increase the children's comprehension and encourage their love of reading, the children will have access to MyBookBlog. Here they can blog, collect facts, take comprehension quizzes and learn new vocabulary linked to books they choose to read themselves. Your child will be able to take a look at the books on offer in the school library. Please encourage your child to talk about and blog about the books they have read and tease out vocabulary when talking to them. The children have already had some experience of MyBookBlog in Year 1 as we have blogged as a class.
Click here to login to MyBookBlog.
Click here to login to TTRockStars.
Click here to login to Oxford Owl.
Home Learning
As always, any support you can give at home is greatly appreciated as it really does make an enormous difference to children’s confidence and progress in school.
Try some of these ideas and activities at home to reinforce learning that has taken place at school and to bring learning to life for your children in everyday contexts:
Maths:
White Rose Maths Home Learning - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Nrich - https://nrich.maths.org/primary
Number recognition - www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/blast-off
Odd and even - www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/coconut-odd-or-even
1 more and 1 less - www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/chopper-squad
Number bonds to 10 - http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html
Number bonds to 10 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zx3982p#z2whnbk
Addition - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8hyfrd#ztr8k7h
Subtraction - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/ztpmrwx#z29wcj6
Missing number calculations - www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids
2D Shapes - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/ztpwdmn#zw7rg82
3D Shapes - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zcsjqty#zp7grdm
Capacity - http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zp8crdm#z9g44j6
Time - www.ictgames.com/hickory4.html
Time - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zydsb82#zywfgdm
Count by 5s song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FaBDqOmiyI
Cooking Measure ingredients and set the timer together. Get them to work out how much more food will you need if extra people are coming for dinner.
Talk about the shape and size of objects - Look online for interesting facts, like tallest and shortest people, or biggest and smallest buildings etc.
When you are sharing food like pizza or cake, ask your child to help you share it equally between the number of people eating.
Solve maths problems at home - ask them how many apples to buy at the shop and why, or how long will it take you to get to Gran's house if you go to the library on the way.
Collect information and create a tally chart, for example to find out the family’s favourite animal or fruit etc.
Make patterns with objects, colouring pencils, paint or Play-Doh, and build structures with Lego or boxes
Play the coin game - trace around coins and colour in the shapes; ask your child to match the coin to the image and talk about each one's name. (Note: toddlers may put coins in their mouth, so always keep an eye out!)
Play shops - You could make pretend money or use Monopoly money for your play shop, and use items around the house as shop items. By 'buying' things with play money, your child begins to understand that different things cost different amounts of money.
Play with cards - take 2 cards and add the numbers together, the player with the highest number wins.
Play with blocks - get them to think about size, colour, shape, weight and texture. Create patterns and structures, ask them to guess how many blocks they could pile up without them falling down.
Play 'I spy' - with numbers and shapes.
Play with containers e.g. how many socks can you fit in the box, which container holds the most sand, water or beads etc.
Play the Clue Game - pick an object and give your child clues to that object by using directional language, such as up, down, over, under, between, through, beside, behind, in front of, and on top of. Make the game more challenging by giving two part directions e.g. "It's on top of the table and to the left of the TV".
Board Games are great for developing skills. Try games like Connect 4, Jenga or Snakes and Ladders
Go on a shape hunt - how many circles, squares, rectangles or triangles can your child find? Are they 2D or 3D? Try getting them to look for patterns and symmetry.
Play outside games that use counting - hopscotch, hide and seek, What’s the Time Mr Wolf, skipping or hula hooping are a great place to start. Practise times tables by counting in multiples e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.
Ask them to give you directions to local landmarks or important places. Get to work out how long each stage of the journey takes.
Use sticks for shape challenges - ask them how many triangles can they make with 9 sticks etc.
English:
Phonics - www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/
Phonics - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Phonics - https://www.phonicsbloom.com/
Phonics - http://www.oxfordphonicschecksupport.co.uk/
RWI Resources for Parents - https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/
Oxford Owl free eBook library - https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/
Parent RWI support - https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/
Other:
Dance - ask your child to create dance routines along to their favourite songs.
Sport - sports are the perfect chance to think about speed, scores, time and angles. Get competitive; try out different angles to score from, ask them how many star jumps can they do in a minute.
Explore the local area - ask them to guess how many buildings do they think are on the street, how far is it to the nearest river or How many dogs and cats live in your town. Ask for the reasons behind their answers.
Harry Potter at home - https://www.wizardingworld.com/collections/harry-potter-at-home
Music Lab - https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
Primary Games - https://www.primarygames.com/
Make me Genius - https://www.makemegenius.com/video_play.php?q=3&g=Grade2
Funology - https://www.funology.com/
National Geographic Kids - https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Useful links:
SATs information for parents/carers by the Department for Education
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-1-and-2-national-curriculum-tests-information-for-parents
Oxford Owl - www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Apps:
Check your Phonics by Pearson Education
Times Table Rock Stars
ScratchJr
Try some of these ideas and activities at home to reinforce learning that has taken place at school and to bring learning to life for your children in everyday contexts:
Maths:
White Rose Maths Home Learning - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/
Nrich - https://nrich.maths.org/primary
Number recognition - www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/blast-off
Odd and even - www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/coconut-odd-or-even
1 more and 1 less - www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/chopper-squad
Number bonds to 10 - http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html
Number bonds to 10 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zx3982p#z2whnbk
Addition - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z8hyfrd#ztr8k7h
Subtraction - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/ztpmrwx#z29wcj6
Missing number calculations - www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids
2D Shapes - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/ztpwdmn#zw7rg82
3D Shapes - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zcsjqty#zp7grdm
Capacity - http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zp8crdm#z9g44j6
Time - www.ictgames.com/hickory4.html
Time - www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zydsb82#zywfgdm
Count by 5s song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FaBDqOmiyI
Cooking Measure ingredients and set the timer together. Get them to work out how much more food will you need if extra people are coming for dinner.
Talk about the shape and size of objects - Look online for interesting facts, like tallest and shortest people, or biggest and smallest buildings etc.
When you are sharing food like pizza or cake, ask your child to help you share it equally between the number of people eating.
Solve maths problems at home - ask them how many apples to buy at the shop and why, or how long will it take you to get to Gran's house if you go to the library on the way.
Collect information and create a tally chart, for example to find out the family’s favourite animal or fruit etc.
Make patterns with objects, colouring pencils, paint or Play-Doh, and build structures with Lego or boxes
Play the coin game - trace around coins and colour in the shapes; ask your child to match the coin to the image and talk about each one's name. (Note: toddlers may put coins in their mouth, so always keep an eye out!)
Play shops - You could make pretend money or use Monopoly money for your play shop, and use items around the house as shop items. By 'buying' things with play money, your child begins to understand that different things cost different amounts of money.
Play with cards - take 2 cards and add the numbers together, the player with the highest number wins.
Play with blocks - get them to think about size, colour, shape, weight and texture. Create patterns and structures, ask them to guess how many blocks they could pile up without them falling down.
Play 'I spy' - with numbers and shapes.
Play with containers e.g. how many socks can you fit in the box, which container holds the most sand, water or beads etc.
Play the Clue Game - pick an object and give your child clues to that object by using directional language, such as up, down, over, under, between, through, beside, behind, in front of, and on top of. Make the game more challenging by giving two part directions e.g. "It's on top of the table and to the left of the TV".
Board Games are great for developing skills. Try games like Connect 4, Jenga or Snakes and Ladders
Go on a shape hunt - how many circles, squares, rectangles or triangles can your child find? Are they 2D or 3D? Try getting them to look for patterns and symmetry.
Play outside games that use counting - hopscotch, hide and seek, What’s the Time Mr Wolf, skipping or hula hooping are a great place to start. Practise times tables by counting in multiples e.g. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.
Ask them to give you directions to local landmarks or important places. Get to work out how long each stage of the journey takes.
Use sticks for shape challenges - ask them how many triangles can they make with 9 sticks etc.
English:
Phonics - www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/phonics/play/
Phonics - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Phonics - https://www.phonicsbloom.com/
Phonics - http://www.oxfordphonicschecksupport.co.uk/
RWI Resources for Parents - https://www.ruthmiskin.com/en/find-out-more/parents/
Oxford Owl free eBook library - https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/
Parent RWI support - https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/
Other:
Dance - ask your child to create dance routines along to their favourite songs.
Sport - sports are the perfect chance to think about speed, scores, time and angles. Get competitive; try out different angles to score from, ask them how many star jumps can they do in a minute.
Explore the local area - ask them to guess how many buildings do they think are on the street, how far is it to the nearest river or How many dogs and cats live in your town. Ask for the reasons behind their answers.
Harry Potter at home - https://www.wizardingworld.com/collections/harry-potter-at-home
Music Lab - https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
Primary Games - https://www.primarygames.com/
Make me Genius - https://www.makemegenius.com/video_play.php?q=3&g=Grade2
Funology - https://www.funology.com/
National Geographic Kids - https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Useful links:
SATs information for parents/carers by the Department for Education
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/key-stage-1-and-2-national-curriculum-tests-information-for-parents
Oxford Owl - www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Apps:
Check your Phonics by Pearson Education
Times Table Rock Stars
ScratchJr
