Today, Linda Gledhill visited Year 2 to talk about the DAHIT team. The deaf and hearing impairment team work across Leeds to support inclusion of deaf or hearing impaired children. Linda gave us lots of advice of how to communicate with someone who is deaf. We also learnt a little bit of BSL (British Sign Language).
Help at home: Practice the BSL signs the children brought home. Ask you child the top tips for communicating with someone who is deaf.
Year 2 visited St Gemma’s Hospice where they met Sarah who helps fundraise for St Gemma’s and Catherine, a senior nurse. The children represented Moortown Primary extremely well. As part of community week, it was wonderful to represent our community so well and learn more about local charities so close to our school.
Help at home: Ask your child what they learnt about St Gemma’s Hospice. Talk about the importance of charity fundraising and maybe visit one of the local charity shops to show your support.
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 15th November
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
Reading
Last week in our reading lessons, Year 2 children were exploring non-fiction books and texts. The children enjoyed looking through a range of different non-fiction books and ticking off all the features they could find.
Help at home: Look through a non-fiction book and ask your child to point out all the features. Discuss the differences between non-fiction and fiction books.
Writing
This half term, Year 2, have produced some wonderful writing. As well as doing some bigger pieces of writing about The Great Fire of London, we have been concentrating on handwriting, dictation and editing our writing for ‘must dos’. We have been encouraging the children to look at their own writing and spot any ‘squashed sentences’. This is where two sentences run into each other. For example – I like to play in the park it is fun. The children can spot where the squash is and either fix it with punctuation or a conjunction.
Help at home: Quiz your child. Can they find the squash? Ask them to choose the best conjunction to fix the squash. They could choose and, because, so or but.
The children will be tested on these words next Thursday 24th October.
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 18th October.
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 11th October.
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
We are really enjoying our PE lessons this half term. We are learning a new game – Castles and Cannonballs. We are practising our fundamental movement skills by throwing balls, aiming and working collaboratively in a group. Over the next few weeks, we are going to change and adapt the game; adding different rules, using different equipment and using different parts of our body
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 4th October.
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
The children will be tested on these words next Friday 27th September.
Please encourage your child to try practise the words by putting their words in a sentence using our handwriting guide. Also, look at the spelling activities guide for some ideas to practise these words.
