Good afternoon everyone,
It has been so lovely to see our new class of Year 2 children. The smiles on the children’s faces on Thursday made me so excited to get back to work and it has been a wonderful first two days.
This week..
It has been a short week and most of our activities have been based around settling back into our routines.
We have written bunting all about us, written about an exciting event in our school holidays and written important class rules.
We have made our own board games to practice our counting and number formation skills and undertaken a problem solving activity to really test ourselves.
We have also looked at the story of The Colour Monster and used this as a way to discuss our feelings and how they can become muddled or change. We discussed how others can help us when we feel this way. Then we made our own colour monsters and wrote descriptions of what it looks like when we feel our feeling.
Important Information
Year 2’s PE days are Tuesday and Friday so please come in kit on these days.
We have sent home reading books, these may be a little simple or your child may have read them before. We will be doing assessments next week to match books that best suit you child. When these assessments are done, you may find your child’s book level appears to have dropped. This is because we increase our focus on comprehension, rather than simply word reading. As the term progresses, you will see your child’s progress increasing. Please don’t worry about this!
Please try to read daily, where possible.
Home Learning
If you test positive for covid-19 and have to isolate, there is weekly work on the home learning google drive. Click the year 2 link on our website and click on ‘home learning’. This page has a google drive link where you will find all our home learning. Simply click on the correct half term folder (we are currently in half term 1) then click on the matching week (next' week is week 2). In this folder is a home learning plan and any folders with work needed to complete tasks. We may struggle to print work so have tried to minimise worksheets, where possible.
We hope you have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday!
Mr Whetnall, Mrs Bowdell and Miss Collins
