Whiteley Year 2 2023 - 24

      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

We've had another busy week in Year 2! Don't forget that next week is our Lunar New Year Celebration, so on Thursday (8th) you can wear your own clothes to school. Wear something red because it's a lucky colour! 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 Here are the common exception words we would like you to practise this week... city fancy cycle circle face Remember the rule we learnt about the letter c... If the vowel after the C is  A, O, or U , the C has a  hard  sound. If the vowel after the C is  E, I, or Y , its sound is  soft . You can practise these however you like. Look back at our previous home learning days for ideas such as bubble writing, rainbow writing or fancy letters. Maths This week we have been learning about 2D and 3D