Willow

Resources for learning at home

English

Learning about expanded noun phrases

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-53030-year-2-what-is-an-expanded-noun-phrase-resource-pack

PowerPoint about verbs

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-4871-verbs-powerpoint

Resource pack about adverbs

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/tp-l-006-planit-y2-spag-lesson-pack-adverbs-with-ly

Activity mats involving all Year 2 grammar questions

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-52161-year-2-spring-term-1-spag-activity-mats

Mathematics

Activity for telling the time to 5 minute intervals. There are also many interactive clocks online AND remember to use the clocks we made in class and sent home to help you with this!

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/5-minute-intervals-differentiated-activity-sheets-t2-m-4698

Times Tables Rock Stars. All children have their login and password in the front of their home spelling books

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth

Number bonds to 100 quiz 

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/tg-m-16-number-bonds-within-100-multiple-choice-quick-quiz-1

Geography/History

Clips about Neil Armstrong and Christopher Columbus 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjwvb82/articles/zhx4k2p

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhpchbk/articles/znchkmn 

Science

Life cycle of a plant

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpxnyrd/articles/z2vdjxs

Welcome to Class 2

Miss Whittaker is your class teacher. We have an amazing team of people to help us in Class 2- Miss Durkin and Miss Woodcock.

Miss Whittaker, Miss Durkin and Miss Woodcock have had a really enjoyable start to the year with Year 2; the children have been working extremely hard! We are looking forward to a very busy half term ahead, with lots of exciting things to learn about!

Spring 2 Topics

We will continue to focus on History, Geography and Design and Technology through our ‘Explorers' topic.

A space station has arrived in our class as we begin our new topic. We’re going to be learning lots of interesting facts about explorers; explorers from the past, where they’ve explored, the equipment they need and where you’d like to explore. We’ll be looking at polar explorers, explorers of the sea and might even get to try some astronaut ice-cream as we become space explorers!

In English, we will study the story 'The Bog Baby', The story links well to our explorers topic as two children explore the wild and make an exciting discovery! As we read the story, we will practise using 'when' for subordination of time e.g. I put my coat on when it was raining and will practise beginning our sentences with 'when' e.g. When it was raining, I put my coat on. We will also look at contractions, such as don’t=do not, we’ll= we will etc. 

During number work, we will once again focus on the four operations with a focus on solving division problems through sharing. We will also be practising telling the time to 5 minute intervals daily. We will continue to learn our 3 times table facts. 

 In Science, we will be learning about how plants grow and will enjoy having 'green fingers' as we plant our own vegetables.

Reading

Reading books are sent home on a Monday,, Wednesday and a Friday. They need to be brought to school everyday. Please remember the importance of asking questions about the story as well as reading for fluency.

Guided Reading lessons and Phonics  will take place daily at school.

Please continue to listen to your child read each evening.  Talk about the characters and what happens in the story, asking your child to re-tell the story once they have read it to you. What was their favourite part of the story? Why? Ask lots of 'who, what, where, when, why' questions. If you have time, why not sign up to Oxford Owl? There are hundreds of tablet friendly eBooks to read online and it's FREE! 

Timetable

Monday- Indoor PE

Tuesday- 

Wednesday-  RE with Mrs Smith, Art with Mrs Parkinson and homework in

Fri- Indoor PE

Spelling test and new homework out.