Hello and welcome to P2!

Teacher: Miss Wilkinson

Assistants: Miss McMeekin and Miss Kelly

This year our topics are:

• Marvellous Me!
• Winter Wonderland
• Space
• Let's get Growing
• When you go down to the woods today...

Please ensure your child has the following in school every day:

- a coat 

- a healthy break time snack

- a lunch box or have a dinner booked on parent pay

Homework:

Monday to Thursday nights the children will have reading. It is important to hear this reading every night. Guided reading books will be read in school then sent home the following week for homework.

Every Monday the children will get new words in their Tricky Word box. 

A literacy or phonics homework will be sent home once a week and a numeracy/maths homework once a week. These may be worksheet based or an online learning homework (seesaw, SumDog or Reading Eggs). Occasionally your child may have a topic related or seasonal homework.

Spellings: these will begin from November. Spellings will be written out Monday to Wednesday with revision on a Thursday for Friday test. Tricky words and number facts will also be done each week and tested on a Friday.

Literacy

In Literacy this first term we are going to read a variety of fiction books and some non-fiction books related to our topic. We will be finding the title, blurb, spine, author and illustrator for each book. We will also be finding out about our 5 senses. The children all love to hear a story – please encourage this at home as well as we want them all to have a real love for books.

We are really trying to reinforce good handwriting and correct letter formation - help your child practice their letters as much as possible, especially if they reverse any letters. We will also be looking at capital letters (start of a sentence and for names, etc.) and practicing them in our handwriting books.

Keep trying to encourage the children to write simple sentences themselves, using as many little 'common' words as possible. Help them to write out any words they know or can sound out e.g. the, up, see, good, look, on, off etc.

The children are revising their Jolly Phonics sounds from last year. Please listen to your child read with the reading books and Jolly Phonics sounds – it all makes a difference!

Maths

For this first half term we will be making sure everyone knows their numbers to 10. So if you have a minute make sure your child can write their numbers to 10, put them in order, fill in missing numbers and even add on 1 (to a number up to 10). We will be revising our 2D shapes and the children love playing “Spot the Shape” in school – try doing this at home or in the car.

We will be talking about more and less, before, after and numbers between.