For Term 5, PE is on a Monday and Thursday.

Please send your child's PE kit in on Monday, it will be sent home each Friday. Please make sure your child's clothing and shoes are named. Please provide socks for PE if your child wears tights. 

Term 5 Week 1

It's been wonderful having the children back in class this week following the Easter holidays – I trust you all enjoyed a peaceful and happy break!

We've already dived into our new termly text, 'Starbird,' and the children have been enthusiastically writing instructions on how to catch this magical creature. This captivating book has truly sparked their creativity, resulting in some wonderfully imaginative trapping methods!

In maths, we've started our fractions unit by exploring halves of shapes and numbers. We'll soon be moving on to quarters, which can be a little trickier with numbers, and then to thirds. Any practice you can do at home with grouping objects into 2s, 3s, and 4s (using things like toy cars, pencils, or dried pasta) would be a great help.

Just a reminder that there's still time to participate in the home learning art project set during the Easter break (details above). Please send in any completed artwork by Friday, 25th April.

Home Learning:

Reading

Children should be reading everyday and once a week this can be logged on

https://www.boomreader.co.uk/parents

• All children who are on RWI will bring home a RWI Reading book each Friday, please return them the following Wednesday. 
• Children in Year 2 also begin to bring home a book from the Discovery Centre which is levelled according to the Accelerated Reader (AR) scheme  https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/accelerated-reader-1/

      These books can be returned and swapped as soon as they are finished. There is also a quiz                    associated with these books https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/year-2-1/

Here is the link for your children to quiz their books on- https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

Please try and complete 1 a week if possible.

Note: some children will bring home both a RWI Reading book and an AR levelled reading book - please read both with your child.
 

Please make sure your child's reading book is in their school bag every day so that we can read with them at school also. Thank you for supporting your child's learning in this way. 

Spelling

Please also find linked below the list of spellings Year 2 will be practising throughout the year. Strategies to practise spellings can be found on the Oxford Owl website, here.

More information about how we teach spelling at Southborough and strategies to support your child at home can be found here: https://www.southborough.kent.sch.uk/spelling-3/

Times Tables Rockstars/Numbots

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score, build your knowledge and watch your confidence sore, as you become a Rockstar!

To use Numbots, for games to support number knowledge, confidence and fluency go to https://play.numbots.com/

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Maths

In Year 2 we are currently learning about money. Please find a maths game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

 to help with understanding the concept of hundreds, tens and ones.

A typical week in Buckinghamshire 2.