Skipping
This afternoon, Year 2 had a very energetic and challenging skipping workshop led by Jodi from Skipping School. We covered lots of skipping skills that we’ll be practising in PE in the lead up to a Year 2 competition in March with other schools.
We learnt click jump, double bounce, speed bounce, hop and swap, side swing, partner skipping face to face and with the long rope we tried run jump out and keep the pot boiling.
Some tips that Jodi shared with us were:
- hold the rope like a smiley face
- have the smiley face behind your legs
- keep your hands wide at the side
- when you hear the click of the rope on the floor you need to jump
We look forward to seeing lots of progress over the coming weeks.
Preparing to multiply
We’ve now started learning about multiplication in our maths lessons this week using the concept of equal and unequal groups. When describing equal groups, the children have used sentence stems to support them.
There are ____ equal groups with ____ in each group.
There are six equal groups with four in each group. There are six fours.
It is important at this stage that children know what groups are equal and which are unequal.
We then made our own equal groups in lots of different ways.
What is this image showing?
How many groups?
How many in each group?
Well done, Jai – you showed great understanding of this concept.
Working together
In our Living and Learning session this week, we focused on how we can achieve, our strengths and our areas to develop. This included how we can work well as a team so each group was set a challenge. There was some great teamwork, turn taking, sharing and we eventually had a group that achieved the challenge.
This was also a good test of our resilience, one of our 8Rs for learning.
Take a look at this video all about not giving up.
Handwriting
We’ve been having a big focus on handwriting and presentation across all our learning – not just in writing books.
Our cursive handwriting scheme has just three rules. Please refer to this when your child is writing at home, for example learning their spellings. Before writing, ask your child about the lazy eight handwriting warm up that we do.
There are groups of letters that follow the same pattern when we write them.
We’ve been using an exciting prop this week to do big movements when writing letters.
Material testers
This week during our What’s the matter? science mini topic, Year 2 had an interesting investigation to carry out from Mr Vango.
Throughout the investigation, we used lots of science skills.
Starting with questioning, considering what equipment we’d need and the method for the investigation, we then focused on predicting which material would be the best for the tent. We recognised that predicting is a skill we also use in reading. We were then ready to get testing. Using observation skills was key to our investigation so we could make a conclusion about the materials.
Ask your child what material they concluded was the best one to use for the tent.
Well done to Vedant who realised that to make the test fair we would need to add the same amount of water from the syringe when testing each material.
A great team effort!
In our Living and Learning lesson this week, we were discussing how to work well as a team and Year 2 have definitely shown that in our assembly today.
Well done to all the children for learning their lines, reminding each other when to speak and listening to others when they were reading.
Thank you to Clare Luther, author and Evie’s auntie, who inspired the children with her visit to class last week.
Finally, thank you for coming to watch the children and supporting them with learning their lines.
Hope you’ve been reading this evening!
Class assembly
The children have been busy rehearsing and look forward to welcoming you to watch our class assembly this afternoon.
It starts at 2:40pm. We hope to see you then.
Using commas
In Year 2, one of our writing objectives is to use commas correctly in a list.
Ask your child to check the following sentences and spot the correct one. Can they tell you why the others are not correct?
Can your child finish this sentence using the spellings for this week as a list.
This week, our spellings are …
Author visit!
This morning, we had a visit from an author, Clare Luther, who talked to us about her books and answered some of our questions. It was great fun!
Living and Learning
- Drug, alcohol and tobacco education (DATE)
- Keeping safe and managing risk
Here are the weekly Living and Learning statements, for this half term, to support this learning.
- I don’t interrupt (with my mouth or my hand).
- I can make things better.
- I know what a drug is.
- I am aware of risks.
- I make safe choices.
- I stay safe online.