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Year 2 

Home Learning July 2023

Maths Games (optional)

Games will be assigned to your child most weeks on Abacus to practice their maths skills. You can play as many times as you like and change the difficulty of them.

Numbots is also available to practise your number bonds.

The childrens' log ins are on stickers on the inside of their reading record covers. 

Click on the links below to log in:

Abacus log in

Numbots

Home Learning

The last of Year 2!

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Home Learning 13th July

Year 2 Reminders and News

  • Year 2 are now doing PE on a Monday and Tuesday. Please make sure the children bring their indoor and outdoor PE kit in on the Monday morning. 
  •  Home Learning will be sent home every Friday and we would like it back by the following Tuesday. Please hand the Home Learning back in the plastic wallets provided.  
  •  Library books will come home on Fridays for 2E and Thursdays for 2C. Please bring them back by the following Friday or Monday if your child wants to check them out and choose a different book.
  • Home Reading Books- These books are meant to be read more than once so the children become secure with the words and phonic sounds at each colour level. 

Thank you,

The Year 2 Team

Reading Lists

Here are some recommended books for you to read with your children. 

List of 50 books to read in Year 2 

List of 50 books to read in Year 3

Year 2 Common Exception Words

Year 2 Common Exception Words

If you have any spare time and want to do some extra home learning, then practise the Year 2 common exception words throughout the year.

year 2 common exception word chart colour 2 1 .pdf

 

Learning  for those are at home due to COVID and feeling well enough to work

Here is what a typical day could look like for you:

9.30-10.30 - English Activity

11.00-12.00 - Maths Activity

13.00-15.00 - Topic Activity and Daily Deliberate Practice

 

Daily Deliberate Practice

This includes:

  • Read a book from Bug Club (the correct reading levels have been allocated to each child)
  • Play a different Abacus maths game each day from the ones already allocated to you
  • Practice either your 10s, 5s, 2s, or 3s times tables or your number bonds to 10 or 20
  • Practice the week's spellings given as homework on this Year 2 webpage

All these links can be found under 'Useful Links' below.

Please do some daily physical activity. If you need any ideas, there are lots to be found in 'Useful Links'.

 

 

English Activities

Grammar, puntuation and vocabulary

 Work your way through this booklet. It explains what we want the children to know by the end of Year 2 and there are lots of activities. Pick a couple of activities a day.

Year-2-parents-grammar-punctuation-and-vocabulary-practice-and-revision-activities

Reading

Try a fiction and non-fiction reading comprehension of your choice each day. There are 3 options for each comprehensions. 1 star being easier, 2 star being medium, and 3 star being hardest. Do  what challenges you.

Fiction Reading Comprehensions:

Lilly_and_the_Tooth_Fairy

London's_Burning

My_Dad_the_Superhero

The_Bubbling_Cauldron

The_Camping_Trip

The_Terrible_Trip_Up

Non-Fiction Reading Comprehensions :

Beach_Habitat

Birds_in_Your_Garden

Emperor_Penguin_Life_Cycle

Foxes

Hedgehogs

Layers_of_the_Ocean

Minibeasts

Polar_Animals

Sharks

Tigers

 

Maths Activities

 Work your way through this booklet. It explains what we want the children to know by the end of year 2 and there are lots of activities. Pick a few activities from a section each day.

Year_2_Parents_Practice_and_Revision_Maths

 

Topic Activities

Try 1 or 2 a day:

 Topic_Activities

 

Outdoor Spring Activities

Try 1 a day:

Wild-challenge_springo!

 Apple_bird_feeder

BIRD_FEEDER

DECORATE_A_TREE

How_to_make_a_leaf_stack

Make_a_journey_stick

Spring_Flowers_Spotter

 

Summer Learning Ideas

Little and often is best to keep your learning going and be ready for September. Make sure you get plenty of rest and have fun too!

 

Read, read, read

Read a variety of books including online books. Enjoy listening to a grown-up, sibling or audiobook, or read to family members.

Sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge at the local library.

 

Oracy

Talk, talk, talk about anything and everything.

Encourage the use of a range of vocabulary and different sentence structures.

 

Spelling

Practise the list of common exception words for Year 1 and Year 2.

Common Exception Words

 

Handwriting 

Write messages, cards, postcards, diaries or stories and remember to use your best handwriting.

 

Maths 

Counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s from different starting points.

Look for maths in the environment. 

Practise your number bonds to 10, 20 and 100.

 

Outdoor learning

Get outside and enjoy the great outdoors. Have active adventures and see what you can discover.

 

Useful links

Reading

Bug Club

Oxford Owls eBooks

Bracknell Forest Library eBooks & AudiobooksBook Trust eBooks and activities

Maths

Abacus Maths Games

Counting in 2s

Counting in 5s

Counting in 10s

Counting in 3s

Number Bonds to 10

Number Bonds to 10 Game

Number Bonds to 20 Game 

Oracy - discussion inspiration

Pobble 365 Pictures

Once Upon a Picture

Physical Development

Milkshake DanceCosmic Yoga

Move It With MaskellBerkshire School Games

PE with Joe Wickes

 Maths Calculation Guidelines

Maths Calculation Examples

SATs Information

 

Whitegrove SATS Parents Meeting Presentation

 

Department of Education explanation of SATS:

2022-23/SATS_Info/Information_for_parents_-_2019_national_curriculum_tests_at_the_end_of_key_stages_1_and_2

 

This document shows the Age Related Expectations (AREs) for Year 2. We teach these across the year and assess the children in many different ways.

Year 2 Age Related Expectations

 

These examples of writing in Year 2 from the DfE show the expected standard and writing at greater depth.

Year 2 Writing Exemplars

 

Here are some past SATs papers for you to look at if you want to practice any at home. You don't have to do a whole paper at a time. Just doing parts of a paper now and then will be good practice. 

SATs Reading Papers

The Year 2 children will do two reading papers. Reading paper 1 has the text and the questions in one booklet. Reading paper 2 has a separate reading booklet and a separate question booklet (this is the trickier paper).

2018

Reading- Paper 1 reading prompt and answer booklet

Reading- Paper 2 reading booklet

Reading- Paper 2 reading answer booklet

Reading test mark schemes for papers 1 and 2

 2017

Reading- Paper 1 reading prompt and answer booklet

Reading- Paper 2 reading booklet

Reading- Paper 2 reading answer booklet

Reading test mark schemes for Papers 1 and 2

 2016

Reading- Paper 1 reading prompt and answer booklet

Reading- Paper 2 reading booklet

Reading- Paper 2 reading answer booklet

Reading test mark schemes for Papers 1 and 2

 SATs Maths Papers

The Year 2 children will be doing two maths papers. There will be an arithmetic paper and a reasoning paper. 

2018

Mathematics Administrating Paper 1- Arithmetic

Mathematics Paper 1- Arithmetic

Mathematics Administrating Paper 2- Reasoning

Mathematics Paper 2- Reasoning

Mathematics test mark schemes for Papers 1 and 2

 

2017

Mathematics Administrating Paper 1 -Arithmetic

Mathematics Paper 1- Arithmetic

Mathematics Administrating Paper 2- Reasoning

Mathematics Paper 2- Reasoning

Mathematics test mark schemes for Papers 1 and 2

2016

Mathematics Administrating Paper 1- Arithmetic

Mathematics Paper 1- Arithmetic

Mathematics Administrating Paper 2- Reasoning

Mathematics Paper 2- Reasoning

Mathematics test mark schemes for Papers 1 and 2