Whiteley Year 2 2023 - 24

We have had another busy week with excitement mounting for our Art Gallery trip. Please remember that if you need to contact us about anything this week, you can use our email address year2@whiteleyapps.com  Here are your home learning 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 The words we have learnt this week all have a 'j' sound in them but the sound is not made by the letter J! See if you can remember our new spelling patterns and write some sentences with these words in... village huge age badge edge bridge Maths We have been using addition and  subtraction to solve problems this week in maths.  Have a look at the links below and try and solve the word problems. You might want a piece of paper to hand so that you can draw a picture to find the solution. https://uk.ixl

We have been enjoying finding out some facts about Lunar New Year so that we can write our non-chronological reports next 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 This week, we have been remembering the spelling of these three similar words... could  should  would Here is the little rhyme that helps us remember their tricky spelling... Can you write some sentences with each of these spellings? You could write some questions starting with each word too. Maths This week we have been practising our subtraction skills. Some of the subtraction has been a bit tricky so you might want to watch this video to remind you what to do... Then you might like to have a go at one of these subtraction games... https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/subtraction-grids https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/robot-more-

The children have been working really hard this week and we have been very impressed with their 'new year' attitude! As you probably know by now, we have started to learn about Chinese New Year, which will be resulting in a celebration on Thursday 8th February. On this day children may wear red clothes to school instead of their uniform. If you would like to immerse them in their learning even further, then there are lots of local, public celebrations you can take part in. There is a website here where you can find the information about what is happening in Southampton... https://visitsouthampton.co.uk/events/chinese-new-year-celebration-year-of-the-dragon-prosperity-and-joy As always, please email us if you have any questions! (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 In ph

Welcome back and Happy New Year! We hope you had a restful break and managed to stay healthy! It has been lovely hearing all the children's news this week and seeing them get stuck in with our geography learning. As always, please email us if you need anything!  year2@whiteleyapps.com Here are you home learning tasks 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 recapping some of the common exception words that children have found tricky. We have chosen some of the words that children are still misspelling for you to practise at home. any many again p eople Try to put each word in a sentence and write it neatly as this will help you to remember the spelling. You might also like to try... •    R ainbow   writing. Using coloured pencils in di f ferent ways can hel