Whiteley Year 2 2024 - 25

  Hello everyone! O ur learning this term is going to be all about... SUPERHEROES! If you could have a super power, what would it be and why? As always, please email us if you need anything! year2@whiteleyapps.com Reading Please continue to read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling Our spellings this week are ... call, tall, ball, walk, talk, always, warm, towards We will also be using this game during the half term. It revisits many of the spelling rules we have learnt in year 2 and luckily for us, it also has a superhero theme! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zncgvk7 Maths Next week we will be learning about fractions in maths. Here is the  link  to the Supermovers Fractions video if you would like to watch it.  Can you look at the fractions below and decide if they are a half, a quarter, ...

Happy Friday! We hope you will all have a lovely weekend. Here are your tasks for this week... As always, please email us if you need anything! year2@whiteleyapps.com Here are your activities for this week..... Reading Please continue to read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling Our spellings this week have been words that end in different  suffixes copy copying worry worried happy  happier funny funniest Now that we have practised a range of different suffixes for our spellings you might like to try this game... https://spellingplay.co.uk/planning-and-resources/year-2/more-suffixes/connies-consonant-suffixes Maths In maths this week we have been adding and subtracting two two digit numbers and solving missing number problems. For example: Use your addition and subtraction skills to check which of the following number sente...

  Hello everyone!  We hope you had a great half term break.  Here are your activities for this week... Reading As always, please read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling These are the words we have been working on in spelling this week.  middle circle little tunnel angel label Maths This week we have been learning about placing numbers on a number line. https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/37/placing_numbers_on_a_number_line week's task... Earlier in the year we looked at animal life cycles in science. This half term we will be looking at plant life cycles. Watch this to find out more... https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zpxnyrd/articles/z2vdjxs Find a plant to look at in the woods, a park or your garden. Can you find the part of the plant that will produce the seeds? If you are able to find several...

 There won't be any official home learning set for you in the half term break. If you would like something to do, please look back over the last few weeks and revisit some of the spellings and maths games that we've put on the blog before. We have also noticed that some children are still finding it hard to tell the time on an analogue clock, so if you'd like to practise that, there is a game here... https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/ We'd love it if you kept reading every day too! Mrs. Yeo has found a free book club you can join if you like, with quizzes, book recommendations and author interviews! Have a look at this link here... https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/blue-peter-book-club Have a lovely break and we'll see you on Monday 2nd June!

  Happy Friday! Here are your tasks for this week... As always, please email us if you need anything! year2@whiteleyapps.com Reading Please continue to read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling Our spellings this week are nouns that have possessive apostrophes to show that something belongs to them... boy's girl's man's woman's child's Try writing sentences with these words this week. The boy's shoes were too small for him. The woman's hat fell off her head. Or maybe you could try this game... https://www.spellingplay.co.uk/planning-and-resources/year-2/apostrophes/possessive-apostrophe Maybe you could try writing them backwards and forwards? Maths This week we have been solving a range of different problems involving the things we have learnt this term. Here are some games you can play to recap some of th...

Happy Friday! We hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend. Here are your tasks for this week... As always, please email us if you need anything!  (year2@whiteleyapps.com) Reading Please continue to read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling Our spellings this week are words that are plurals (more than one of something.) We have looked at words that end in y and how they change to plurals. fly, flies carry, carries,  baby, babies lady, ladies This week you could have a go at the activities on BBC bite size linked to plurals. Click this link to access the activities;  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3dw4xs Maths This week we have been continued solving multiplication and division calculations. If you want to see the methods that we use for multiplication and division, there are the videos again that you can...

  Happy Friday!  Thank you to the helpers who joined us on the trip last week. The children all seemed to enjoy themselves, hopefully they have told you all about it! As always, please email us if you need anything!  year2@whiteleyapps.com Here is your home learning for this week.... Reading As always, please read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spelling This week we have been looking at words where the 's' makes a 'sh' sound, and we have revised some homophones that we learnt last term.  These are the spelling words to practise... treasure, usual  new, knew  there, their, they’re Maths This week we have been solving multiplication and division calculations. If you want to see the methods that we use for multiplication and division, there are some videos here that you can watch.  Here are some games tha...

 It has been a great week back after the Easter break. We have enjoyed hearing the children talk about their time off. Although this has been a shorter school week, it has been jam packed! Yesterday we had a wonderful time on our school trip to Fort Nelson. The children did a great job of representing Whiteley Primary School! Here are this week's activities: Reading Please continue to read every day. This might be your reading book from school or a book from home. Don't forget, you can also log on to bug club phonics.  https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Spellings This week and next we would like the children to focus on spelling the common exception words correctly. Please choose from the list, some words that your child is less confident at spelling and encourage them to use the range of strategies they have learnt to practice them.  Maths This week we have been learning about angles, measuring the temperature using a thermometer and measuring capacity and vo...