Year 2 class page
Our classes are
Class 2D and class 2B
Our teachers are Miss Devine and Mrs Brown. Our teaching assistants are Mrs Hodges, Miss Durbin and Mrs Hill.
Our PE days are every other Tuesday and every Wednesday. Please send your child into school wearing their PE kit. This should include warm clothes, trainers and their house colour t-shirt. All items should be labelled.
At Wheatfield we are having a big 'Handwriting push' to encourage the children to adopt our cursive script consistently. We would like to see our cursive script used in all exercise books, not just English books.
Our agreed cursive style is shown below:
Term 3 learning
English
Writing-
During term 3 we will be using ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker. This is a wordless picture book about a lonely young girl who uses her magical red crayon to take her places. We will use this book to support our writing with a focus on these areas:
- Adventure story
- Recount
- Information text
- Letters
We will also focus on the following skills:
- Meaning of words and understand new vocabulary
- Past tense verbs
- Exclamation marks
- Expanded noun phrases
Spelling-
This term we will continue to introduce a variety of different spelling patterns. We have sent home a termly overview of the spellings for this term. You can also find them on our classroom doors and the 'spelling' section of our class page.
Reading-
During term 3 we continue with our carousel approach to guided reading. Your child will be part of a small group of no more than 6 children. Each week your child will complete the following activities:
- Read with an adult (during this time we will tick off the number of 'reads' your child as done at home, listen to them read and change their guided reading book.)
- Handwriting practice
- Power of reading activities (one activity will be based on our class text and one activity will be a phonics activity)
- Library (Your child can select a library book to take home)
This term our guided reading activities will be based around the Zeraffa Giraffa by Dianne Hofmeyr. It is a true story about a giraffe who was sent as a gift to the King of France by the Great Pasha of Egypt in the 1820s. We will read this text as a class and complete 2 activities per week based on the text.
Maths
This term we will be focusing on the following skills:
Fractions:
- To find half, third, quarter of shapes and objects.
- To find half, third and quarter of numbers.
- To recognise equivalence e.g. ½ is the same as
Time:
- To tell the time to the quarter hour.
- To tell the time to 5 minute intervals
Money:
- To use different coins to make the same amount.
- To solve money problems and calculate change.
Term 3 wider curriculum
In our wider curriculum we will be covering History, Art, RE, Music, PSHE and Computing.
Click in each logo to view the pupil organiser.
Contact us
Below are our emails. Please email us if there is something important that you would like to follow up with us:
danielle.devine@wheatfieldprimary.com
emily.brown@wheatfieldprimary.com
Parent Information
Click on the links below to find these documents:
Example comprehension questions
Home Learning
How you can help at home
Reading
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We ask that you read with your child 5 times a week. This only needs to be a 10 minute session and you don’t have to finish a whole book every time. Please record any reads you have done with your child in their reading record as we will be continuing the reading bug challenge. Each week your child will have one reading session with an adult. During this session, your child will change their school reading book. The class teacher will let you know your child’s reading day in the first week back so that you know which day to have the book ready in their book bags. Your child will also have one library session each week where they are able to choose a library book. The children have free choice with their library books. Again, during the first week you will find out your child’s library day. Reading does not have to be limited to the books children bring home from school. It can include any books they have at home, reads with siblings or reading books from the local library.
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Maths
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The children will be continuing with maths planets this year and will carry on from their end point in Year 1. Please practise your child’s maths facts at least 3 times a week. If your child is stuck on a level for more than 4 weeks then we will intervene at school. To see example questions for each level please visit the maths curriculum section of our website. |
Spelling
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Every Friday your child will write 8 spellings their yellow homework book. They will then be tested on these spellings the following Friday. The spellings will also be on our classroom doors and on our class page on the website. The tests will be stuck into their yellow homework books so you can see how they have got on. The spellings will contain the new sound patterns that we will be learning in class and are a way of reinforcing these spelling rules. Please practise at least 3 times each week with your child. |
Spellings
Week 1
giant
magic
digit
danger
page
huge
giraffe
gentle