Whiteley Year 2 2023 - 24

  We hope you have a restful and enjoyable Easter holiday! Please take some time over the next couple of weeks to do some reading and if you'd like to recap some of the spellings and maths strategies from this term, see the information below...  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 Look back at the spellings we've learned this term (see previous blog posts) and practise them using a strategy of your choice! Maths If you want to practise the methods that we use for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, here are the videos that you can watch... You might like to play one of these games once you've practised these methods... https://www.topmarks.co.uk/number-facts/number-fact-families https://www.visnos.com/demos/addition-subtraction-facts https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/res

It has ben so lovely to see so many of you this week. Thank you for coming to support our class museums. The children loved showing you what they have done. We hope you found the parent's meetings useful too. If you have any questions about the information we gave you, please contact us on year2@whiteleyapps.com. * DON'T FORGET! Next Wednesday (27th) is our dressing up day. Please make sure children are dressed as a real royal person and that they can explain who they are. Thanks in advance for supporting us with this! Here are you home learning 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 In phonics this week we have been looking at the 'ee' sound made at the end of words by the letters ey. key donkey money monkey chimney There are some spelling games here that you

Hello everyone! We have a few messages and reminders for the next two weeks... Next week, the class museums will be open for you to see what the children have made in Discovery time! You can come and visit on Monday 18th March at 3pm, or on Tuesday 19th March at 8.30am. Please come to the classroom door and we look forward to seeing you then. There are also parent's meetings after school next week so that we can discuss your child's progress. If you have not signed up for an appointment yet, then please contact the school office to get booked in! Don't forget that on Wednesday March 27th, we are all dressing up as kings, queens, princes and princesses! These can be from any country and any period of history or those that are still alive! It must be a real royal person though and we will be discussing some facts about each person on the day so please make sure your child knows something about who they are dressing up as!  When we get back after the Easter holidays, we will

We loved celebrating World Book Day yesterday! If you'd like some extra book activities to do this week, then check this website for things you can do... https://literacytrust.org.uk/about-us/world-book-day-national-literacy-trust/ 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 contractions with an apostrophe that replace a letter... I’m I’ve He’s She’s Couldn’t Wouldn't You might like to watch this video and try the task! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zcyv4qt Maths In maths this week we have been practicing our addition and subtraction skills. We have used what we have learnt to start solving problems. Have a look at some of the word problems on these websites and see if you can s

We are looking forward to World Book Day next week. Remember you can dress up as your favourite book character on Thursday 7th March and we will be going to spend our book vouchers on Friday at Waterstones.  Don't forget that our Kings and Queens dressing up day is on Wednesday 27th March! We have learnt about a lot of different queens this week so you should have plenty of people to choose to dress up as! 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'd like you to recap the Year 2 common exception words that have tricky sounds in. Here are some games you could play to practise reading and spelling these words... https://www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/ https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/dinosaurEggsHF/index.html You could also try picking a

      Hello everyone! Welcome back! We are ready for another fun filled half term. Hopefully you received a curriculum newsletter this week with the information about our new learning journey. It's going to be a busy time! Don't forget the important dates for this half term... Over the half term, children will be making a range of artefacts and we will be displaying these in a class museum in the penultimate week. We would like to invite you to come and look at our museums once they are done. You can either come and visit at 3pm on Monday 18th March, or at 8.30am on Tuesday 19th March. We look forward to seeing you then! On Wednesday 27 th  March we will be celebrating all of our learning about monarchs with a Kings and Queens dress up day. On this day we would like children to pick a  real  king or queen to dress up as. They can be from any country and any time period in history or the current day. You can still wear your Disney princess dresses, but we’d like you to pretend t

Happy Half term break! There won't be any official home learning set for you in the holiday. 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'd love it if you kept reading every day too! We had a great final day of this half term celebrating the lunar new year. If you'd like to celebrate the lunar new year at home, there is some information here about what to do on each of the 15 days!!! First Day (大年初一) Many families serve all vegetarian dishes for their first meal as it is believed to help purify and cleanse out the body. Many other families have a big feast instead to celebrate the first day of the new year.  It is a day to visit other family members, starting from the oldest and most senior members of the family.  Some will visit temples hoping to be among the first group of people to pay respect to the gods and goddesses.  Firecrackers, dragon and lion