Welcome to the Year 2 Learning Page!
Mrs Slack is our Class Teacher and Mrs Michaels is our Teaching Assistant.
Mrs McVeigh will be teaching you on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
Mrs Midgley will be working with us some mornings too!
Email: c.slack@st-josephs-brig.calderdale.sch.uk
Email: k.mcveigh@st-josephs-brig.calderdale.sch.uk (for RE and Geography work)
Friday 22nd - Please send me your English, your Maths task (challenges if you do them) and your picture.
Also
Complete one of the comprehension exercise, spelling test and remember it is your PE day so do one of the dances. Have fun!
Thursday 21st - Please send me your English and your Maths task (challenges if you do them). Mrs McVeigh would like a picture of your compass
Wednesday 20th - Please send me your English and your Maths task. Please send a picture of you with the book you are reading for the page too! ( Complete the ICT tasks on Purple Mash and practise your spellings)
Tuesday 19th - Please send me your English, your Maths task and your RE to Mrs McVeigh.
Complete the Music task too
Monday 18th - Please send me your English task and your Maths pictures/ list and complete the ICT tasks on Purple Mash
RE
Tuesday 19th
Today in RE we are looking at the story of Jesus and his first disciples
Mrs McVeigh would like you to
Think about how Simon Peter and Andrew would be feeling about leaving their families and following Jesus.
Draw a large fish and write down all the words you can think of to describe their feelings.
Our Class Mission Statement
In Year 2 ….
- We listen to each other
- We share and think about others. We work for win –win
- We sit ready to learn and we are proactive
- We put our hands up and wait our turn
- We tell the truth and say sorry
Share your news!
Have you got any news you would like to share with your friends this week?
James has been very busy build this Lego model of Kevin.
Have you got any news to share?
A joke to share
Mia's got a joke!
Why did the one handed man cross the road?
Because he wanted to get to the second hand shop
Will has another joke!
Billy has got 2 jokes to share!
Knock knock!
Who’s there ?
Cows go.
Cows go, who?
Cows go moo!
What did one maths book say to the other!
I’ve got so many problems!
Do you have a joke for your friends?
Out and about!
Lots of you will be getting out for a walk. Share a photo with your friends.
English
Friday 22nd
Today you are going to write a letter
Thursday 21st
Today I want you to think about William's feelings in the story
Wednesday 20th
Read the story again and write a description of either the bear or William. (Remember to use punctuation and adjectives!)
Tuesday 19th
Today I want you to write about your favourite part of the story and why you like it.
Monday 18th
Today we start a new story
Comprehension
Friday 22nd - Monster Surprise
Complete one set of questions
Remember * is the easiest ***is the hardest
ICT
Wednesday 20th
Today we are continuing our work on touch typing using Purple Mash
We are working today on our right hand keys. The tasks are set as 2Do
These exercises are just to help the children learn where the keys are on the keyboard not to be confident touch typing!
Monday 18th
Today we are going to work on our touch typing using Purple Mash
We are working on our left hand keys. The tasks are set as 2Do.
Music
Tuesday 19th
Today we are going to be singing using different voices and thinking about the pulse.
Have fun!
Check out Chiara's video!
Friday is our normal PE day.
This half term our focus is dance. Each week pick a dance to do! It would be great to see a photograph of you in action!
Our Student's student for this half term is...
Virtues
We are working on developing the virtue of hope. WE CAN ONLY HOPE WE ARE BACK TOGETHER SOON!
Our Class Music!
Each year group has been given a piece of classical music. Year 2 we have - Eine Kleine Nachtmusic – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Leader in me!
We are working on the second habit- Put first things first. How can you put first things first in your day today?
Start the day with some exercise!!
Maths
Friday 22nd
Thursday 21st
Wednesday 20th
Tuesday 19th
Send in your pictures!
Spellings
Spellings are introduced on Monday. Please encourage your child to learn the words in their spelling book
Our spellings for 18/1/21
Adding ing, ed, er, est and y to words ending in e with a consonant before it.
hiking shiny
hiked being
hiker shining
nicer scary
nicest scaring
Friday 22nd - Test - How well did you do?
Thursday 21st - Handwriting
Wednesday 20th- Wordsearch
Friday Fun! (22nd)
Find out- How to draw Winnie the Pooh
Reading
Please listen to your child read as much as possible. It really makes a difference. Please contact me if you need help with this.
Each week there will be story to read
A new story book to read
Let me know if you like the story.
What you would like next week's story to be about?
Look at the books we are reading!
School at home!
You are all working so hard at home. It is lovely to see how proud you are of your wonderful work. Send in a picture to add to our page!
Fun in the snow!
Our Class Charity
Our class charity for Year 2 is the RSPCA. Watch out for fun raising fun!
Thank you so much! Our own clothes day raised £66.20!
Our Christmas raffle raised £74.50
Our total so far is £140.70