Whiteley Year 2 2025 - 26

  Hello everyone!  Our new learning journey this half term is ...  SUPERHEROS 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 This 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 pla...

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 to the nearest 5 minutes so if you'd like to practise that, here is some information to help. As so many children are familiar with digital clocks we have tried to relate the time to the way you would say it digitally.  So if you saw these clocks... You would say that the times were 9:25    'Nine twenty five' 10:15   'Ten fifteen' 11:40    'Eleven forty' You could also use this game to help... https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time 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 ...

Happy Friday!  As always, if you have any questions please do get in touch with us via the year group email address: 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 Spellings This week's spelling words have the suffixes 'ful' and 'less'. careful,  careless,  playful,  hopeful,  helpless. Why not try this online quiz and games about using the suffix 'ful' and 'less'.  https://wordwall.net/resource/1739085/suffix-less-and-ful Maths This week we have continued to solve multiplication and division problems. For most children, the division problems have definitely been more difficult! Have a go at this fun division game that helps show division as sharing. https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/doggyDivision/index.html This week's task... Next week in RE, we will be lear...

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 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. ...

Happy Friday! We have had another wonderful week. Thank you for all of the toilet roll inserts! They have now been transformed into amazing Florence Nightingales. 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 learning about fractions. We have found out that they are equal parts of a whole. Watch this video to remin...

  Happy Friday!  Thank you to the helpers who joined us on the trip yesterday. 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 'zh' 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 begun recapping our learning about fractions. Remember each fraction is an equal part of a whole! You can watch this video to remind you... https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/articles/zmjy2sg Then have ...

It has been a great week back after the Easter break. We have enjoyed hearing the children talk about their time off and have used some of this in our recount writing.  We are excited about our trip to Fort Nelson next Thursday! Thank you to all of the parents who kindly volunteered to help.  WE NEED YOUR HELP! We are in desperate need of cardboard toilet roll inserts! Please can you send in any empty toilet rolls as we have an exciting modelling session coming up and we need 90 cardboard rolls for this! Empty kitchen rolls are also very welcome, thank you. 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 we have been spelling words where the letter a makes an 'o' sound. Here are the words for you to practise this week... want, watch, wander, squash, quantity...

  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...