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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.

Class 2 have been learning about the Growth Cycle in plants.

Watch these two videos to witness the magical process of plant growth.

Think to yourself: What things do plants need to grow?

What is the first thing to grow on a plant?

What is the last thing to grow on a plant?

 

Weekly Spellings – words with double consonants

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

Words with double consonants

1. really
2. silly
3. apple
4. dinner
5. messy
6. funny
7. little
8. Summer (it has a capital letter because it’s a name of a season)
9. coffee
10. comma

Extension Challenge

1. skipping
2. hissing
3. running
4. popping
5. wrapping
6. flapping

Additional writing challenge – write these words in a command (a command is an instruction)

Wash the apple before you eat it.

 

Arithmetic – Doubling and Halving numbers to 20

Below is an outline of how to develop doubling and halving skills:

Doubling

1. Write all the numbers from 1 – 10 in order.
2. Underneath these numbers, write what double that number is.

Extension Challenge

3. Write the numbers from 1 – 5 in order.
4. Next to these numbers, write what 10 x the number is, e.g. 1 – 10, 2 – 20, etc
5. Underneath each number, write what double that number is, e.g. double 1 is 2 so double 10 is 20. 

Halving

6. Count up in 2s from 0 – 20, e.g. 0, 2, 4, etc
7. Underneath these numbers, write what half that number is (look at your doubling pattern for help).

Extension Challenge

8. Count up in 2s from 0 – 10, e.g. 0, 2, 4, etc
9. Write the numbers from 2 – 10 in order.
10. Next to these numbers, write what 10 x the number is, e.g. 2 – 20, 4 – 40 etc
11. Underneath each number, write what half that number is, e.g. halve of 2 is 1 so halve of 20 is 10.

The tests will be on Friday 4th March.

 

 

Below you can find some questions that will help you to revise spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Spelling

Click on the link to learn about contractions

Click on the link to learn more on contractions

Click on the link to learn about plural – es

 

Punctuation

Click on the link to learn about commas in a list

Click on the link to learn about punctuation between sentences

Click on the link to learn about punctuation between sentences

Click on the link to learn about capital letters

 

Grammar

Word Types

Click on the link to learn about word types

Click on the link to learn more on word types

Click on the link to learn about nouns

Click on the link to learn about subordinate conjunctions

Click on the link to learn about verbs

 

Sentence Types

Click on the link to learn about sentence types

Click on the link to learn more about sentence types

Click on the link to learn about questions

 

Tense

Click on the link to learn about past, present and future tense

Click on the link to learn more about past and present tense

Click on the link to learn even more about past and present tense

Click on the link to learn about verb tense

Click on the link to learn more about verb tense

 

Please note that P.E. will be on Thursdays during the Spring2 half term.

 

Weekly Spellings – words with suffixes

Below are the spellings for this week’s Spelling Test in Class 2. The theme for this week’s spellings is – words with suffixes. The children need to know the spelling of all words, however the test will only include the words with the suffix.

-ful suffix

1. colour – colourful
2. beauty – beautiful
3. wonder – wonderful
4. power – powerful

-ness suffix

5. happy – happiness
6. sad – sadness
7. kind – kindness

-less suffix

8. home – homeless
9. power – powerless
10. care – careless

Extension Challenge

1. delight – delightful
2. thought – thoughtful
3. sick – sickness
4. friendly – friendliness
5. thought – thoughtless
6. use – useless

Additional writing challenge – write these words in a question

What makes the garden so beautiful?

 

Arithmetic – Number bonds to 20

Below is an outline of how to develop number bond skills:

1. Add together all numbers that = 20, e.g. 0 + 20 = 20, 1 + 19 = 20
2. Write all calculations with the answer at the front (20 = 4 + 16) and at the end (4 + 16 = 20) of the number sentence
3. Write related subtraction facts, e.g. 4 + 16 = 20 so 20 – 16 = 4 and 20 – 4 = 16

Extension Challenge

Complete addition calculations with missing numbers, e.g. __ + 5 = 20 and 3 + __ = 20 and 20 = 6 + __ and 20 = __ + 15.

Complete subtraction calculations with missing numbers, e.g. __ – 5 = 15 and 20 – __ = 13.

 

The tests will be on Friday 26th February.