Hello Dove adults! Next week (beginning 9th November) we will be having parents evening via a phone call. This will be from a withheld number. I will be making these calls Monday 9th November, Tuesday 10th November and Wednesday 11th November. I have created a google document so that you can select your preferred parents evening slot. You should be able to see the time … Continue reading Dove Parents Evening
Hello Year 2 and Year 2 adults, As I’m sure you’ve heard, Year 2 have earned their marble treat days tomorrow! Every class has worked incredibly hard and managed to earn their class marbles this half term. We couldn’t be prouder of them! Dove, Robin and Owl- your treat will be that every child is allowed to wear pyjamas or a costume to school tomorrow … Continue reading Year 2 Treat Day!
PE Blogs – 21.10.20 Morning! We would have had PE today so here are some fun activities to do from home. Here is a video posted by “Little Sports”. These activities are designed to help Year 2s get stronger, practicing things we have been doing recently. These can be completed indoors or outside. You can do the whole video at once, or do a little … Continue reading 21.10.2020 PE (home learning)
Good morning home learners! Remember to email us any questions at : year2@selsdonprimary.org.uk Starter: Last week in computing we used digital technology to record videos. Here are some questions to recap: What makes a good video? What things do you need to take into account when taking a video? How do you make a video on a iPad? . Today we are going to be exploring … Continue reading Wednesday, 21st October- Computing
Good morning everyone! Thank you for your patience and understanding on this unusual day. Hopefully you all received our text this morning. Due to the boiler being broken you shall all be learning from home today.We have posted today’s activities already this morning. These are now pinned to the top of the blog or can be found in the side bar under ‘Home Learning’. Our … Continue reading Wednesday 21st Key Info – Update!
Remember to email us at: year2@selsdonprimary.org.uk Can you point out the words and say what they are? Recap phase 3 sounds: Recap: Play a game of ‘clap clap think and frown, I say a sound, you write it down’. Children to write previously learnt sounds /oi/ ear/ air/. Words such as coin / joins/ beard/ fear/ chair/ fair. Today’s sounds: /ure/ /er/ Geraldine Giraffe: /ure/ … Continue reading Phonics 21.10.20 /ure/ /er/
Good morning home learners! Remember to email us at: year2@selsdonprimary.org.uk Warm up: handwriting heroes – 5 minutes of number formationStart with finger wiggles, sitting properly, feet on the floor, anchoring the pageYou need to write the alphabet in all capitals. We are going to be exploring root words and suffixes today. Quick questions:What is a root word?What is a suffix?What is a prefix?Where does a … Continue reading Wednesday, 21st October – English
Remember to email us at: year2@selsdonprimary.org.uk Over the last two days, we have been using known facts (number sentences within 10) to discover new facts about numbers within 20. Today, we will be using these known facts to fill in the blanks for different number sentences. If I know that 5 – 4 = 1 Then I know that 15 – 4 = 11 Have … Continue reading Maths – 21/10/20
Hello Year 2 adults! Just a quick note from the Year 2 teachers to say a huge THANK YOU!Thanks for all of your support so far this term. It’s been a strange start to the year and we are so grateful for your understanding. Thanks also for all of the cardboard box donations for our DT tomorrow – this has been greatly appreciated. We are … Continue reading Thank you adults!
Hello! Just a quick update, our Year 2 door has moved. It is now around the side of the building near the main playground. There is orange netting opposite the door. It is clearly labelled with a Year 2 sign. The entrance/exit for Year 2 has been moved for a more convenient and spacious drop off and pick up location. At the end of the … Continue reading Year 2 Door Update
This is a schedule of the activities to expect on the blog each day: The activities in purple will alternate every week. Please do reach out if you have any questions. Thanks! – Y2 team Continue reading Daily Home Learning Schedule
Thank you for all the hard work that you all have done over the past two weeks. It has been great to have all the comments on the activities that we have designed for you. We would ask that your child responds to at least one of the activities posted daily, with any queries, problem, or to just let us know their progress. If your … Continue reading Commenting on posts.
L.I: To recognise the values of different coins. Today we are going to be continuing with money. Have a go at these questions to recap your learning from yesterday: Do you know what money we use? What coins do we have? What notes do we have? What is the money called in the UK? Do you know names of money in other countries? . 1p … Continue reading Maths- 24/11/2020
Good Morning Year 2 Home Learners! Who can remember what we looked at yesterday in English?Instructions!Tell someone in your home what order we brush our teeth in. Quick questions:What are instructions?What do we need instructions for?What features of instructions do you know?Have you ever used instructions before?What have you used instructions for? Today we will be exploring a lot of different examples of instructions!We need … Continue reading Tuesday 24th November – English
This week in phonics, we are recapping all the sounds we have learned so far. These will include both real and alien words and sounds that are part of ‘sound families’. The focus is reading and being able to segment then blend the sounds to read a word. Please take a look at today’s powerpoint: Useful links: Any work/photos please email year2@selsdonprimary.org With thanks, Ms … Continue reading Phonics 24.11.20 Lesson 2
Hello lovely home learners! For History today, we are putting our research skills to the test and discovering as much about one significant figure as possible. Who are we researching today? Their name is… Nelson Mandela Consider what might make a good research question to type into a search engine? It should: Include the name Nelson Mandela so that we get results specific to them. … Continue reading History – 24/11/20
L.I: To identify the different coins used in the UK. This week we are going to be focusing on money in maths. Here are some questions for you to think about: . Do you know what money we use? . What coins do we have? . What notes do we have? . What is money called in the UK? . Do you know names of … Continue reading Maths- 23/11/2020
Happy Monday Home Leaners!We are starting a new focus for our writing today!Have a look at these pictures below. What are they showing? Questions:Did they brush their teeth well? Why not? What did they do wrong? Was it in the right order?If you have never done something before how do you know how to do it correctly the first time. What could you use? INSTRUCTIONS! … Continue reading Monday 23rd November – English
This week in phonics, we are recapping all the sounds we have learned so far. These will include both real and alien words and sounds that are part of ‘sound families’. The focus is reading and being able to segment then blend the sounds to read a word. Please take a look at today’s powerpoint: Useful links: Any work/photos please email year2@selsdonprimary.org With thanks, Ms … Continue reading Phonics 23.11.20 Lesson 1
Hello lovely home learners! In Science this week, we are doing a practical investigation. You will need: Something to plant seeds into Soil Seeds (in school, we are using cress seeds but you can use anything you have! This could even be seeds from a piece of fruit!) We are going to plant some seeds so that we can predict what we think might happen … Continue reading Science – 23/11/20
Happy Friday Year 2! Here are next week’s spellings. We will practise these in school, please try to practise at home too! Spellings (test- 27th November):Find Floor Gold Grass Great Has He Here His House Thanks and have a fantastic weekend!Year 2 Continue reading Spellings (test: 27/11/20)
Super busy week here in Dove class!Have a look at our photos of super learning happening.First set of photos is actually our art from last week! This was the beginning of our Yinka Shonibare inspired book covers. Later in the photos is this week’s designs using wax crayon which is imitating Shonibare’s use of Dutch Wax Print!In phonics we have been practising our split vowel … Continue reading Dove’s Wicked Week (w/b: 16/11/20)
