Welcome to Year 2

 Children entering Year 2 will be encouraged to:-

1. Extend and improve their ability to use spoken and written language in a wide variety of contexts.
2. Understand and enjoy everyday mathematical ideas.
3. Develop an enquiring mind and the ability to think rationally.
4. Develop an awareness of ICT throughout the curriculum.
5. Develop agility, co-ordination and a sense of teamwork and fair play through a variety of physical activities.
6. Enjoy, explore, express and appreciate various forms of creative activities.
7. Understand, share a concern for and respect the environment and develop an awareness of his or her community.
8. Develop habits of self-discipline through an awareness of self and sensitivity to others and their situations.

Daily Routine
Monday
Games - Children wear their school uniform into school and bring their games kit to change into.

Non reading day- Tables test
Weekly spellings will be copied into homework books
Homework:
Practise spellings for Friday’s test

Tuesday
Individual reading
Assembly - If your child would like any certificates presented in front of the school, this is an ideal opportunity.

Homework:
Reading
Maths or Literacy in red homework books
Practise spellings for Friday’s test

Wednesday
Games - Children wear their games kit into school and bring their full uniform to change into.

Individual reading

Mental Maths Test (Folens)

Singing Practice

Homework:
Reading

Maths or Literacy in red homework books

Practise spellings for Friday’s test

Thursday
Individual reading

Homework:
Reading
Final practice for spelling test

Friday
Individual reading

Spelling and dictation test
Homework:
Reading; practise number bonds and multiplication tables, over the weekend, for a test on Monday.

Curriculum activities
We have a fun year planned. The following is an outline of curriculum activities planned for the Summer Term.

Literacy/Knowledge and Understanding of the World/PSWBCD (Personal, Social, Well-Being and Cultural Diversity) Topics

Newport Project, Outdoor week, Non-Fiction- Blue Whale, Olympics,Dinosaurs and Pirates

Spellings
Your child will bring home a list of spelling words to learn each week. It will be helpful if you can support this learning in any of the following ways:-
1. Point out letter patterns to aid both memory and understanding.
2. Help your child to sound out words and hear the constituent sounds within them.
3. Encourage the writing of the words a few at a time.
Use the ‘look, say, cover, write, check’ method that we use.
4. Develop your child’s ability to ‘have a go’ at spelling before asking for help.
5. Look at the shape of the word.
6. Look for ‘words within words’.
7. Praise good effort, especially if an error is a reasonable attempt, before correcting.
The spellings will be focused on in lesson time, together with the spelling pattern of the week and then brought home each Monday. The spelling test will be on Friday. As other homework is set throughout the week, it may be best to concentrate on learning these spellings on Monday and review them on other days. 

 
 Mathematics
The children will continue to develop mental strategies, learn tables, develop number, shape, time, measure and money skills.

Spelling words Summer term 2012 

Summer 1 Spelling words

Week 1 (week commencing 23.4.12)

hear  rear  fear  tear  dear

year  gear  clear  spear  shear

said  because  went  which  where

they  who  write  coming  work  neat

Week 2 (week commencing  30.4.12)

bread  head  dead  read  lead

dread  spread  weather  leather  feather

above  across  almost  along  also

always  animals  any  around  asked

Week 3 (week commencing 7.5.12)

baby  balloon  before  began  being

below  better  between  birthday  both

rain  came  paid  wait  name

take  gate  play  today  away

Week 4 (week commencing 14.5.12)

brother  brought  can’t  change  children

clothes  coming  didn’t  different  does

feet  keep  seen  seed  week

sea  ear  jeans  teach  leaf

Week 5 (week commencing  21.5.12)

don’t  during  earth  every  eyes

father  first  following  found  friends

lie  tied  white  shine  high

fright  sight  try  cry  my

Week 6 (week commencing  28.5.12)

garden  goes  gone  great

half  happy  head  heard  high  I’m 

boat  road  toast  soup  coat

bone  rope  hole  home  stole

 Science
The topic of 'Growth of LivingThings' and 'The Environment'

Library
The children will be able to borrow books from the library for their own enjoyment at home. (The children will be able to change their books once a fortnight during their class library time. The library will also be open on a Friday lunchtime 1:00 - 1:30)

Topics- If the children have any information on the topics being studied within the classroom, please encourage them to share their work with us in class.

Mental Maths Strategies

The following is a list of strategies that will be covered during the course of the entire year. Each week we will highlight the strategies taught.
Over the weekend, could you please choose one or two of the following strategies to consolidate with your child:-

Counting on and back in 1's, 2's and 10's

Number bonds to 10

2x table in order, and also random. See the first page of your child's big red homework book and over the weekend please revise the appropriate time tables as marked on the small square sheet.

To know that subtraction is the inverse of addition. 7+3=10,10-3=7

Understanding place value of 2 digit numbers,
eg. 53 is 5 tens and 3 units, so 53 = 50+3, also 50+3=53

Biggest number in your head and count on as an addition strategy.

Near doubles as an addition strategy
e.g. 5 + 6 can be calculated as double the smallest number and add 1 so 5 + 5 + 1 = 10 + 1 = 11
OR
double the biggest number and subtract 1 so 6 + 6 = 12 - 1 = 11

Add on 10 subtract 1 for a +9 addition calculation
e.g. 3 + 9 = 3 + 10 - 1 = 13 - 1 = 12

Add on 10 and add on 1 for a +11 addition calculation
e.g. 3 + 11 = 3 + 10 +1 = 13 + 1 = 14

Doubles of numbers to 20

Coins to make amounts to 20p, 50p and £1
e.g. 17p = 10p + 5p + 2p using real money

Addition of 2 or 3 prices to calculate the total
e.g. 14p + 13p = 27p using real money

Coins to make the total of 2 or 3 prices
e.g. 27p = 20p + 5p + 2p using real money

Change from 20p, 50p and £1 using real money
e.g. spent 17p, gave the shopkeeper 20p so change is calculated by counting on from 17p to 20p so 17p + 2p = 19p then 19p + 1p = 20p

Measuring household objects using metres and centimetres

O' clock and half-past on analogue and digital clocks

Names and properties of 2d shapes

Names and properties of 3d shapes

Number sequences made by counting on and backwards in 1s, 10s, 2s and 3's.

Odd and even 2 digit numbers

Numbers between other numbers on a numberline

Estimating and then counting number objects using groups of 2,3,5 or 10

Rounding numbers to the nearest multiple of 10

Ways to make 10

Partioning single and 2 digit numbers into either 5 or a multiple of 5 and a bit EG. 7 + 9 = 5 + 2 + 5 + 4 = 10 + 6 = 16

Converting horizontal sums into a vertical layout (single and 2 digit numbers)

Worded problems using addition strategies to solve

Measuring the mass of objects using standard units-100g, 200g

Lines of symmetry on 2D shapes.

Symmetrical patterns.

Halves and quarters of 2D shapes and numbers

Quarter to and quarter past

Reinforcement of mathematical language for Wednesday’s Folens Mental Maths test

Estimating and grouping in 10s.

multiplication and divsion by 2,3,4,5,10

data handling using lists, tables, pictograms, Venn diagrams and block graphs.

Sequencing numbers in 3s,4s,5s from any given number.

subtraction is the inverse of addition to solve missing number problems

Meaning of = sign: balance, same as, total, score, sum of, altogether, makes, equals, is

Uniform Reminder