Topic

Our next topic will be ‘Scented Garden’ This project takes us on a journey of discovery through the tulips as our senses discover the blooming foliage and enchanting fragrances of flowers and herbs. Round and round the mulberry bush we go, planting bulbs and seeds, and then watch them grow beneath sunshine and showers. Explore the astounding world of the scented garden, but be careful, there are some wild and dangerous plants out there that do astonishing things. Don’t touch them. Use the marvellous properties of plants, flowers and herbs to make an exceptional gift for somebody special. Everything is coming up roses. Why not grow your own?

If you would like to get started at home walk around your garden or local area to search for flowering plants. Draw pictures of the flowers or plants that you find using a range of drawing materials such as wax crayons, coloured pencils or felt pens. Look carefully at the shapes, colours and patterns. Can you label any of the plants with their names? Please bring any pictures you create into school to share with us after the holidays. We can’t wait to see what you draw!

Time

After the Easter Holidays our next unit of work in maths will be time.  During the holidays it will be really useful to revise o’clock and half past times.  This can be done throughout the day by drawing their attention to an analogue clock and asking them ‘what time is it?’ and ‘how do you know?’.  The second question will focus their attention on the position of the hands and where they point for the different times.  It is important that they remember that the long hand is the minute hand and shows us o’clock when it points to the 12 and half past when it points to the 6 and the short hand is the hour hand which points to the hour for o’clock or past the hour for half past.  Digital clocks are not taught as part of the year 2 curriculum and as they are read in a different way could cause confusion with understanding time using analogue clocks.

Reading

Please keep reading at home during the holidays.  There’s no better end to a busy day than snuggling up for stories.  We will send home a couple of extra reading books at the end of this week.

Lexia

If your child has a Lexia account (their login details will be in their reading record book) please access their account at home via this link: https://www.lexiacore5.com/?SiteID=3740-7432-0654-5562

Spellings

Words for the first week back are:

apple
table
little
bottle
middle

Parents: We are now be following the year 2 curriculum for spellings.  Many of these words will be in sets with common or alternative spelling patterns. Other words have more complex or unusual spelling patterns and are on the list of common exception words for year 2.  The children are being taught strategies for learning spellings as part of their work at school.  Please encourage them to practice at home during the week and carry out an occasional test to prepare them for Friday morning.  When your children are confident spelling the words please encourage them to use them in sentences.   This will help with understanding and using the words in context.  They could also explore more words with these spelling patterns and bring them to school to share with us.  They will be tested by writing the words in dictated sentences.

Mental Maths Facts

Revise the number pairs that total ten.

Test: complete the missing number equations, e.g. 6 + __ = 10