Year 2 2023 - 2024

This week in our maths learning this week we have been learning how to compare masses of objects and how to measure mass in grams and kilograms. Visit the following website to continue this learning and have a go at the quiz to test your child’s knowledge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt9k7ty/articles/z3qk3j6

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 18.03.24

This week in our maths learning this week we have been learning about volume and capacity and measuring using millilitres and litres. Can you practise measuring capacity with a measuring jug at home? There is also the following free online game is also a great resource to use to practise these skills and you can choose the level of difficulty you wish your child to work on.

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/capacity/index.html

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 25.03.24

This week in our mental maths starters, we have been practising the quick recall of number bonds to 20. You can practise this with your child by using the following link and playing one of the many Number bonds to 20 games available here:

https://wordwall.net/en-us/community/number-bonds-to-20

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 15.04.24

This week in our maths, we have been learning about fractions – being able to recognise ½ and ¼

Log on to the following website and work through the activities to find ½ and ¼

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3rbg82

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 22.04.24

This week in our maths, we have been continuing our learning about fractions – being able to recognise and find 1/3. We have learnt the words numerator and denominator and what these number tell us. Ask your child if they can explain these words to you.

Log on to the following website and work through the activities to find 1/3.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfc7dp3

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 29.04.24

This week in our maths, we have been continuing our learning about fractions. We have been learning to recognise and find ¾ and to count in fractions up to a whole.

The following online game (choose Year 2 halves, quarters and thirds from the menu) is a great resource for practicing recognising and counting in fractions:

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/firepitFractions/index.html

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 13.05.24

This week in our maths, we have been learning how to tell the time to the o’clock time, half-past, quarter-past and to and to each 5-minute interval. Please could you practise telling the time with your children using the clocks at home by asking your children at different times of the day, ‘What time is it now?’

There is also a fantastic online game you can find here to practise matching the correct analogue clock to the correct time.

https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 20.05.24

This week in our maths, we have been continuing our learning on time by telling the time to every 5 minutes past and to the hour. Play this online matching game with your child so they can practise reading the time and saying this aloud to you:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=matchingpairstimev3

Choose analogue to analogue and the 5-minute intervals option from the menu.

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 03.06.24

This week in our maths, we have been learning how to make tally charts, block diagrams and pictograms. You can practise interpreting and answering questions about pictograms using this link and selection ‘horizontal pictograms unit = 1’ option from the menu.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=pictograms

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 10.06.24

This week in our mental and oral maths learning, we have been practising the quick recall of multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Use this link and choose the ‘Times tables’ and ‘Division Facts’ options from the menu to practise at home:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 17.06.24

This week in our maths starter sessions, we have been practising reading and writing numbers to 100 in numerals and words. Ask your children to write the numbers in words from

0 -20 and the multiples of 10 (10, 20, 30, 40 etc…)

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 24.06.24

This week in our maths starter sessions, we have been practising recalling multiplication and division facts for the 2, 5 and 10 times table. Ask your child questions such, 20 ÷ 2 =

5 x 6 = and 110 ÷ 10 = to increase their speed of recall for these facts. Extend this further to include the 3 times table.

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 01.07.24

This week in our maths we have been practising quick recall of number bonds to 20 and related facts. Ask your child to work systematically to write as many number bonds to 20 as they can. Then challenge your child to write 3 more addition calculations for each number bond, e.g.

15 + 5 = 20 20 = 15 + 5

5 + 15 = 20 20 = 5 + 15

so they can prove that addition is commutative and can be done in any order.

Maths Home Learning Week Beginning 08.07.24

This week in our maths we have been re-visiting flexibly partitioning 2-digit numbers. Use the following online game to practise partitioning numbers into tens and ones. For each number, ask your child, ‘Can you partition 38 another way?’ E.g. 3 tens and 8 ones or 2 tens and 18 ones etc..

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Phonics

Please use the resources below to help your child know all their phonemes. Unfortunately the 'play sound' does not work online.

Letters and Sounds Phase 2 Powerpoint

Letters and Sounds Phase 3 Powerpoint

Letters and Sounds Phase 5 Powerpoint

Useful Websites

Phonics:

https://www.littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk/resources/for-parents/

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/DragonsDen.html

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html