Month: March 2016

The Seaside

Lots of people really enjoy spending time at the seaside. If you’re one of those people then you’re in luck as Class 2 will be studying the seaside as their Geography topic during the Su1 half-term.

If you have ever visited the seaside, you can share your experiences and you can even bring in some photos or objects you collected on your visit.

When thinking about the seaside, try to answer these questions.

What things did you see at the seaside that you don’t anywhere else?

Why do people usually visit the seaside?

What activities do people normally do at the seaside?

What jobs do people have at the seaside?

In Literacy, we will be studying Dear Greenpeace by Simon James to think further about the seaside.

Class 2 have achieved so much of the course of the Spring Term. Highlights include: the trip to the National Portrait Gallery to see the Samuel Pepys and Charles II portraits; visiting Redcross Gardens to observe and measure growth in plants; taking part in the Easter Service at the Cathedral; working hard and learning lots in every lesson and, most memorably, performing the Great Fire of London Assembly to the whole school.

Have a very restful and enjoyable Easter.

With the Year 2 SATs not far away, any extra work that you can do at home over the holidays will be very beneficial.

If you would like to do some additional work then the following activities will be particularly helpful.

1. Read as much as possible (remembering to write any reading you do in the Reading Record).
2. Practise addition and subtraction skills. These will be particularly important for the Year 2 SATs.
3. Learn how to identify, and use, adjective, nouns, verbs and adverbs.
4. Practise writing sentences using conjunctions (because, and, or, but, that, which).
5. Find words that have a suffix (words ending with -ful, -ly, -ness, -less, -ing, -ed) when reading and learn to spell these words. Extend yourself by identifying words that have the same letters at the end but are not actually words with suffixes (e.g. king has ing at the end but there’s no root word so it’s not a word with a suffix).

Weekly Spellings – words with silent letters

Below are the spellings for this week’s Spelling Test in Class 2. The theme for this week’s spellings is –words with silent letters.

Words with silent letters – silent k

1. know
2. knew
3. knife
4. knock

silent b

5. comb
6. climb
7. thumb

silent g

8. sign
9. high

silent h

10. hour

Extension Challenge

1. knight
2. answer
3. doubt
4. crumbs
5. castle
6. ghost

Additional spelling challenge

Find antonyms (words that have an opposite meaning) for the words that have opposites, e.g.

High – low

Additional writing challenge – write these words in different sentence types

(There are four different sentence types: commands (an instruction); statements (give facts); questions (need answering); and exclamations (in Y2 they take the form of What or How statements. What a mistake! or How noisy!) More SPaG resources are available on the Class 2 blog.

Who left these crumbs on the table?                   How delicious were those final crumbs!               

Put the crumbs in the bin.                                   I left crumbs on the table earlier this morning.

 

Arithmetic – Adding when crossing the tens boundary

Below is an outline of how to develop skills in addition.

1. Write out a range of 2-digit numbers, e.g. 25, 37, etc
2. Partition the numbers into tens and units, e.g. 20 + 5, 30 + 7
3. Add the tens values together, e.g. 20 + 30 = 50
4. Add the units values together, e.g. 5 + 7 = 12
5. Add the two totals together to calculate the final answer, e.g. 50 + 12 = 62 so 25 + 37 = 62

The tests will be on Thursday 24th March.

Weekly Spellings – words with an ied ending

Below are the spellings for this week’s Spelling Test in Class 2. The theme for this week’s spellings is –verbs with a y ending that change to an ied ending in the past tense. Please note, the children will only be tested on the word with the ied ending.

Words with an ied ending

1. marry – married
2. worry – worried
3. carry – carried
4. hurry – hurried
5. bury – buried
6. copy – copied
7. cry – cried
8. try – tried
9. dry – dried
10. fry – fried

Extension Challenge

1. classify – classified
2. deny – denied
3. empty – emptied
4. justify – justified
5. miscopy – miscopied
6. multiply – multiplied

Additional spelling challenge

Find synonyms (words that have a similar meaning) for these words, e.g.

Cried – wept, sobbed

Worried – concerned

 

Additional writing challenge – write these words in different sentence types

There are four different sentence types: commands (an instruction); statements (give facts); questions (need answering); and exclamations (in Y2 they take the form of What or How statements. What a mistake! or How noisy!

Who emptied the bin?                How empty is this party bag!       Empty the bin now.        I emptied the bin earlier this morning.

More SPaG resources are now available on the Class 2 blog.

Arithmetic – Creating equivalent calculations

Below is an outline of how to develop skills in creating equivalent calculations

1. Write out multiplication facts from the 2, 5 and 10 times tables, e.g. 5 x 7 = 35
2. Write out addition facts that give the same answer, e.g. 10 + 20 + 5 = 35
3. Write the multiplication facts together in one number sentence, e.g. 5 x 7 = 10 + 20 + 5
4. Write different examples using the same multiplication facts, e.g. 5 x 7 = 15 + 15 + 2 + 3

The tests will be on Friday 18th March.

What a fantastic day! World Book Day proved to be another fantastic occasion. Class 2 enjoyed dressing up as a book character as well as spending time listening to stories read by all the teachers in the school.

Have a look at some of the creative, colourful and wonderful outfits below:

Weekly Spellings – words with wh

Below are the spellings for this week’s Spelling Test in Class 2. The theme for this week’s spellings is – words with wh

Words with wh

1. whale
2. which
3. where
4. who
5. what
6. when
7. wheel
8. white
9. why
10. while

Extension Challenge

1. whine
2. whip
3. wheat
4. whose
5. whirl
6. whole

Additional writing challenge – write these words in a question

Why is this wheel broken?

Arithmetic – Reading analogue clocks

Below is an outline of how to develop skills in reading analogue clocks.

Clocks

1. Look at a clock at home, identify the hour hand, the minute hand and the second hand.
2. Learn how many seconds there are in one minute.
3. Learn how many minutes there are in one hour.
4. Learn how many hours there are in one day.
5. Read the clock so you know when it is 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock, etc
6. Read the clock so you know when it is half past 1, half past 2, etc
7. Read the clock so you know when it is quarter past 1, half past 2, etc

Extension Challenge

8. Read the clock so you know when it is quarter to 1, quarter to 2, etc
9. Write a list of things you would do in the am and pm, e.g. At 2am I will be sleeping. At 2pm I will be in lessons at school.

The tests will be on Friday 11th March.