Home learning for Friday 5th December 2025

We hope you are getting excited about the festive season! Hopefully you have already got the dates for different things happening in school, but here are some reminders...

Friday 12th December - Secret Santa Shopping

Tuesday 16th December - Christmas dinner day (Children can wear Christmas jumpers)

Wednesday 17th December - Year 2 party day (Children can wear party clothes)

Friday 19th December - half day - school closes at 12.05

Please send any questions about the last two weeks to us at 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

Here are the common exception words we would like you to practise this week...

Half

Money

Mr

Mrs

Parents


English

In English this week we have been looking at poetry. We have been gathering ideas and wintery words in order to create our own winter poems. We have focused on Haiku poems which have a specific amount of syllables in each line. 


5 syllables

7 syllables

5 syllables

Here is an example:

Winter is coming

The frosty mornings are cold

I enjoy winter


Maths

In maths this week we have been revising our addition skills by answering a question about adding items from a shopping list. The children have practiced using number bonds to 10 and remembering doubles to help them with this task. They have used number lines and dienes when adding independently.

Have a go at this money game if you want to keep practicing https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money


Your task this week:

As we are enjoying the poetry in English, we would like you to have a look at a range of poetry and find one you really like. You could share it with someone at home or bring it into school to share with your friends. 

Here is a useful website that might be helpful. https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/


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