What a super first week in Year 2! Well done, Owls!

We have had lots of fun getting to know each other and finding out about our summer holidays. We have also started our maths, English and topic work this week! 

In maths, we have been reminding ourselves of our numbers 1 to 100. We have been representing numbers in different ways using concrete materials (such as our tens and ones, counters and tens frames) and have been writing these numbers in both numeral and written form. Can you choose a number between 1 and 100 and show someone at home how you could represent that using materials from home or drawing your tens and ones? Here is an example of our work:

We then used place value charts to represent numbers up to 100. Show someone at home what you can do:

In English, we reminded ourselves how to use full stops and capital letters. We also looked at nouns, verbs and adjectives. We had lots of fun sorting words into these categories. Can you tell someone at home what a noun, verb and adjective is? 

We then thought about some of the things we did during the summer holidays, ready to write our postcards all about our summer holidays later in the week. I loved finding out about some of the wonderful things you got up to! Who did you write your postcard to? What did you include? We then edited our work using our writing toolkit. 

In topic, we introduced our history topic: Ingenious Victorians! We learnt about some of the amazing Victorian inventions. Can you tell someone at home something that the Victorians invented? We also learnt lots about Queen Victoria. Can you remember a fact that you learned? Use the clues below to help you:

Key Messages: 

• Spellings: Our spellings tests will take place on a Friday. The children have all been sent home with their spellings in their Spelling Records. If there are any spellings that the children get incorrect, these will be highlighted for you to see and support your children with. 

• Spelling Shed Logins: The children now have access to their spellings on Spelling Shed. Their new login details have been glued to the front of the reading diaries. Please let me know if you have any issues with accessing their accounts via email.

• Art t-shirt: Over the next few weeks, please could I ask that children bring in an old (preferably slightly oversized) t-shirt or shirt with their names on for our art lessons. We will store these in our classroom.

• Reading books: These are changed on a Tuesday. Please ensure you are writing in when you have read with your child that week. We have also introduced our 'Road to Reading' in class. On a Friday, we will check if your child has read three times with an adult at home. The children will move up the road to reading during the half-term, and children who reach the end of the road will receive a surprise.

Spellings