B'kinghamshire

For Term 2, 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. 

The children have been working so hard this week. We have all been enjoying exploring animals and their habitats and discussing their needs and how they are met in their various environments. 

We are all enjoying our class text for this term, 'Traction Man' by Mini Grey. The children have been inspired by the superhero's antics and are enjoying the humour. 

We have been exploring 2D and 3D shapes in maths, looking at ways we can sort shapes, including number of sides, vertices and faces. Please talk with your children about the various shapes around the home and ask them to sue the correct names: cylinder, cube, sphere etc to describe.

In music we have explored instruments of the Orchestra and have enjoyed finding out about the different families of instruments and thinking about which instrument we would like to play. Drums are always popular, but in our class there were quite a few budding violinists and trumpeters!

Please can I just remind everyone that children should not be bringing any toys or swapping cards, such as football cards in to school. These can easily be lost or damaged and swapping can cause confusion and upset. Thank you for supporting this.

We are all enjoying practising for our Christmas play. Pease make sure all costumes are in school by Monday 2nd December.

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/

We will be sending home logins for quizzing with your child in week 4. Please look out for a small slip of paper in school bags.

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

Spellings groups and what to practise at home. 
 

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 addition and subtraction. Please find a maths game https://www.topmarks.co.uk/subtraction/subtraction-to-10

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

A typical week in Buckinghamshire 2.