Dolphin

Prayer Space. Jesus said 'I am...'

Chatting with Penguin class about life in year 3!

We enjoyed playing our games.

Homework 22nd June

Reading	Look for examples of possessive apostrophes when you read. pirate’s hat rabbit’s burrow.
Literacy	Complete the Pirate picture crossword.
Maths	CGP Maths book p34, 35, 36
Spellings	movement statement excitement environment punishment enjoyment
Project Due in Wednesday 4^th July	Can I design and make my own board game? Think about a theme, how many can play, the rules and any pieces that are needed.

Pirates Ahoy at Chatham Dockyard.

Subject	Activity
Reading	Look for contracted forms when you read. Which do you frequently come across?
Literacy	GCP Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling book p9 and p13.
Maths	CGP Maths book p31 and p8.
Spellings	aren't can't couldn't didn't doesn't don't hadn't hasn't
Project Due in Wednesday 4^th July	Can I design and make my own board game? Think about a theme, how many can play, the rules and any pieces that are needed.

Recycled hanging flower planter whole school project. Thank you for your kind donations of plants, they look amazing!

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 8.6.2018

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Look for instructions around your home. How are they presented? Lists, bullet points, numbered steps or illustrations? We have the children’s reading record books in school. They will get them back next week!
Literacy	GCP Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling book p32 and p33.
Maths	Practise telling the time. You may find the MyMaths website very useful, you could complete any or all of the tasks from measurement, year 2.
Spellings	bravely hardly lively lonely loudly proudly sadly slowly suddenly sweetly
Science	Please bring in an outdoor plant so that we can plant our Year 2 Eco Warrior display. You may have already seen the colourful display of junior plants in the playground. Needed on Wednesday.
Parental Comment (Pupil’s response)

Daily reading for 10 to 15 minutes. (Please record in your reading journal.)

Multiplications tables should take place for 10 mins each week.

Homework should be returned each Wednesday.

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 25.05.2018

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Enjoy reading a variety of books, comics etc. Please record in your reading record diary. Don’t forget your local library!
Science	Where you are for the holidays, carry out a creature survey in your environment. Remember to think about the big and the little animals around you. Record in any format you like but be ready to report your findings in class.
Parental Comment (Pupil’s response)

Our visit to Chelmsford Mosque and Cathedral.

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 18.5.2018

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	What do you think will happen in the end?
RE	Complete the RE candle sheet so you know how one world religion uses light to celebrate. Do not stick into your homework diary.
Spellings	Revise any tricky spellings from this half term.
Project Due in on MONDAY 21^st May.	Research real historical pirates and find out which seas and oceans they sailed. You could present your information using text, pictures, video or even a map.
Trip to the Mosque	Don’t forget that on Thursday 24^th May we are off the Mosque with year 1. Boys must be in long trousers and girls need to bring a pair of leggings to wear under their school dress or skirt.
Parental Comment (Pupil’s response)

festival of light candle.pub

Creating and eating edible pirate ship as a reward treat!

Games Event in the sunshine!

Historical Pirates homework.

Friday 11th May

For our DT project next week the children will all need a kitchen roll sized tube please.

Subject	Activity
Reading	Whilst sharing your reading books see if you can find any homophones – words that sound the same but are spelt differently e.g. pair, pear.
Science	For Tuesday’s lesson find out 3 facts about each of the different habitats that a camel, polar bear and either whale or dolphin live in. They will need to be able to share these facts in the lesson. (maximum 9 facts).
Spellings	Pentecost because Holy Spirit ocean Disciples also habitat instead mammal desert
Project Due in on MONDAY 21^st May.	Research real historical pirates and find out which seas and oceans they sailed. You could present your information using text, pictures, video or even a map.

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 4.5.2018

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Whilst sharing your reading books see if you can find any shorter words in longer words E.g. late in chocolate.
Literacy	Complete the grammar activity sheet.
Maths	Use a variety of different sized containers and investigate how many of the smaller container are needed to fill up the larger container. Repeat using containers which have l or ml identified .on them and record the corresponding calculations.
Spellings	crew motley scurvy parrot ahoy crow’s nest starboard island galley quarters
Project Due in on MONDAY 21^st May.	Research real historical pirates and find out which seas and oceans they sailed. You could present your information using text, pictures, video or even a map.

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 27.4.2018

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Whilst sharing your reading books see if you can find the different types of sentences, questions, commands, exclamation and statements.
Literacy	Complete the grammar activity sheet.
Maths	CGP Maths Workout book p 32 & 33
Spellings	pirate strongest mother kindest captain bravest treasure ugliest telescope quickest
Topic For Wednesday please.	In class next week we will be making treasure maps linking in with our maths and geography lesson. All children will need an A4 sized piece of paper which looks as if it has aged. See class page for instructions.
Project Due in on MONDAY 21^st May.	Research real historical pirates and find out which seas and oceans they sailed. You could present your information using text, pictures, video or even a map.

grammar activity sheet

Mat 1 - Higher Ability.pdf

tea stained paper instructions.ppt

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 20.4.2018

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Whilst sharing your reading books see if you can find any interesting adverbs.
Literacy	CGP Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling book p37.
Maths	CGP Maths Workout book p4 & 5
Spellings	because fiercely when quietly however bravely although quickly instead carefully Use three of these connectives and three of the adverbs to write an interesting paragraph about an imaginary cheeky pirate.
Project	Research real historical pirates and find out which seas and oceans they sailed. You could present your information using text, pictures, video or even a map. Due in on MONDAY 21^st May.

Pirate Stunning starter. Arrrrrrrrgh!

School Games Event: Intrahouse Event

All in an Easter Basket.

Enjoying our chocolate making!

Enjoying our reward treat - teddies and pjs.

Homework 23rd March

Subject	Activity
Reading	Continue to track your reading minutes for the 100 Million Minutes Reading Challenge.
Literacy	CGP Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling book p42.
Maths	CGP Maths Workout book p26 and p27.
Spellings	Easter Jesus supper disciples soldiers sadness happiness celebration
Project	Projects for this term are now completed.
D&T	For our Easter egg D&T boxes, we would like the children to bring in Easter themed stickers, objects or paper. These will be used to decorate their Easter egg box so they shouldn’t be too big. These need to be in on Monday, sorry for the short notice!

How did religion influence the lives of the Aztecs?

Our Fabulous Finish 'The Egg Destroyer'!

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 16.3.2018

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Continue to track your reading minutes for the 100 Million Minutes Reading Challenge.
Literacy	Draw and label a diagram of your ‘egg destroyer fabulous finish’ think about resources you used and what happened to your egg. Please complete on a piece of paper not in your homework diary.
Maths	Complete double sided time sheet.
Spellings	tomb thumb climb crumb lamb
Project	Can I show how religion influenced the lives of the Aztecs? Due in this week 21^st March

Dolphin's cricket taster session in the new hall!

All Stars Cricket Taster Session (Foundation and KS1)

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 9.3.2018

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Continue to track your reading minutes for the 100 Million Minutes Reading Challenge.
Literacy	CGP Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling book p8.
Maths	Complete double sided fraction sheet.
Spellings	threw through colourful wonderful careful
Project	Can I show how religion influenced the lives of the Aztecs? Due in 21^st March
Fabulous Finish	Our Fabulous Finish is on Friday 16^th March at 1.45. All parents and carers are invited, although no younger siblings, sorry. We will need: bubble wrap or similar, selotape, masking tape, newspaper etc for our task!

Spellings 2nd March

blue

blew

brake

break

dear

deer

meat

meet

peace

piece

Having fun in the snow!

Homework 23rd February 2018

Subject	Activity
Reading Literacy	For World Book Day you need to draw, write or gather up to 4 objects which give others clues about a book you love. For example: A marmalade sandwich, a suitcase, a label and a hat.
Maths	CGP Maths workout book p17 & p18.
Spellings	there their they’re here hear quite quiet bare bear one won You will need to know the meaning of these homophones.
Project	Can I show how religion influenced the lives of the Aztecs? Due in 21^st March

Celebrating Thinking day.

We took part in BBC radio 2's 500 word story competetion. fingers crossed!

Intrahouse Cross Country – Friday 9^th February 2018

The entire school ran a cross country course. It was certainly very muddy and the weather was a little unpredictable but the children ran extremely well despite this. We are extremely proud of the children’s efforts. The Infant Results are as follows: 1^st Burrell, 2^nd Cole, 3^rd Ferguson and 4^th Landon. The Overall Winner of the day was Ferguson. Well done to all who participated! J

SCHOOL GAMES EVENT: TOP THREE (1+2)

SCHOOL GAMES EVENT: INTRAHOUSE EVENT Cross Country 2018

Homework 9.2.2018

Reading

Literacy

Write a review of a favourite story book.

Identify the author and include details about the story. Make sure you give your opinion about the characters as this has been our focus in class.

Maths

Times table practice.

Start with the 2, 5 and 10 then move onto 3 and 4.

Spellings

Revisit any spellings which have proved tricky this half term.

Which words do you frequently misspell? Practice them over the holiday.

Project

Can I show how religion influenced the lives of the Aztecs?

Due in 21^st March

Our Marvellous Middle - exploring Aztec art.

Super shape homework, exploring 2d and 3d shapes. Well done!

We enjoyed the pancake races in the playground and eating the pancakes at lunch time. Thank you PFA

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 2.2.2018

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Identify the type of characters in a story. Are they good, scary, brave etc. Remember to share your reasons.
Literacy	Please complete and mark together page 18 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Either draw a picture using 2D shapes or create a model using 3D shapes and take a photograph of it. Pictures need to have captions which give details about the shapes and their properties.
Spellings	once upon time after climbed giant stalk castle said chopped
Project	The chocolate survey should now have been handed in.

We had fun exploring the new adventure playground.

Homework 26.01.2018

Subject	Activity
Reading	Retell a traditional tale to someone at home. Remember to start with Once upon a time!
Literacy	Please complete and mark together page 16 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together pages 29 & 30 of the Maths workout CGP book.
Spellings	story stories fairy fairies family families marry marries lady ladies
Project due in 31^st January	To carry out a chocolate survey and record my findings using data charts or graphs.

Homework 19.01.2018

Reading	Look for some words containing contractions. In contractions, the apostrophe shows where a letter or letters would be if the words were written in full (e.g. can’t – cannot)
Literacy	Please complete and mark together pages 14 & 15 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete ‘The cat’s whiskers’ activity sheet.
Spellings	didn’t weren’t doesn’t wouldn’t I’ve you’re can’t haven’t you’ll we’ve
Project due in 31^st January	To carry out a chocolate survey and record my findings using data charts or graphs.

Stunning Starter - Chocolate tasting.

Homework 14.1.2018

Reading	Look for some technical words in the non-fiction text and identify their meaning.
Literacy	Source a picture of a product made from chocolate, ie a chocolate fountain, a chocolate sculpture. Then write a suitable caption to explain what your picture is about. Please do not stick this into your homework book as you will be using it in your class work.
Maths	Please complete and mark together pages 15 & 16 of the Maths workout CGP book.
Spellings	other mother another brother nothing Monday monkey
Project due in 31^st January	To carry out a chocolate survey and record my findings using data charts or graphs.

Homework 5th January

Reading	Make a prediction for your story and then read on to see if you are right.
Maths	Please complete and mark together pages 13 & 14 of the Maths workout CGP book.
Spellings	chocolate fair trade cocoa farmer pod dried plantation machine transport factory Pick 3 or 4 of these words and find out their meaning- you might want to make a glossary!
Project due in 31^st January	Carry out a chocolate survey recording my findings using data charts or graphs.

Thank you for your kind gifts. Have a lovely Christmas.

Christmas jumper day.

Fabulous Finish - we used the ipads to make a film about the Great Fire of London.

Infant Christmas party fun!

8.12.17 Year 2 Homework

Christmas

Preparation!

Costumes due in on Monday 11th

Whale’s Nativity Service Wednesday 13^th at 9:30

Dolphin’s Nativity Service Wednesday 13^th at 14:00

The Infant children’s party is on Thursday 14^th and there will be prizes for the best Christmas Tree themed accessory in every class! We suggest a homemade hat, badge, bag etc on the Christmas tree theme which fits in wonderfully with our value of Service.

For the party, if you are able to supply 4 to 6 small cakes or a packet of biscuits, we would be very grateful.

Spellings

We are recapping previous spellings which the children are still finding tricky:

would asked

could people

called what

because with

many about

Retelling The Jesus Story with the Shenfield travelling crib

Homework 1st December

Subject	Activity
Reading	Children should read every night and discuss the storyline or information as they read or once they have finished.
Science	This week the children are bringing home a recording sheet to investigate the location of food stored in your kitchen. Please ensure that you work with the children so that you can discuss how to handle food products safely. Thank you!
Spellings	Jesus shepherd Bethlehem wise wreath baby angel manger Mary Joseph
Project this half term	Autumn terms projects should have already been completed.

We visited Shenfield library and shared a variety of stories about different cultures around the world.

I can share information about St Paul's Cathedral.

For our nativity service, Ephron and the Olive Tree, all the children will need a costume. The image below may inspire you! If you have any problem providing a costume do let us know as soon as possible.

Nativity Costumes

Please help us this year with costumes as many of our costumes are junior sized. Please keep them simple do not think you need to purchase them unless you wish to:

Ephron, Grandad, mum, villagers, Joseph, shepherds and narrators need a large (adult sized) plain coloured t-shirt, a belt, dark leggings or tracksuit bottoms and tea towel style or scarf headdress.

Mary: a simple plain blue dress with a white or blue head scarf.

Angels: white, silver dress or skirt and top with silver tinsel.

Star: as angels but with gold tinsel for headdress.

Kings: plain tunics regal colours, cloak and crown.

All costumes need to be in school in a named carrier bag by the Monday 11^th December

If you have any questions please ask.

Thank you for your support.

Enjoying lunch together!

24.11.17

Subject	Activity
Library visit	Next Friday the 1^st December we are taking year 2 to Shenfield Library. PLEASE send in your child’s library ticket in a named envelope with their password to take out 1 book. Dolphin are leaving school at 9:10am Whales are leaving school at 10:10am
English	Please complete and mark together page 39 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together pages 11 & 12 of the maths CGP book.
Spellings	flies lorries families hobbies babies ladies fairies tries enemies memories
Project this half term	I can share information about St Paul’s Cathedral (old, new or both) Due in this week Wednesday 29^th November

Our Christain value this half term is Service. We discussed what this means and thought about different people who give service to others.

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 17.11.17

Subject	Activity
Reading	Read every night and identify an example of speech and dialogue within your book.
English	Please complete and mark together page 41 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together Money problems sheet.
Spellings	fly rely sky reply try supply shy apply July deny
Project this half term	I can share information about St Paul’s Cathedral (old, new or both) Due in on Wednesday 29^th November

Subject	Activity
Reading	Read every night and identify interesting verbs in your book.
English	Please complete and mark together page 4 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together: Page 21 question 4 page 22 questions 3 page 23 question 1 & 3 of the Maths workout CGP book.
Spellings	final magical musical national natural original traditional physical special unusual
Project this half term	I can share information about St Paul’s Cathedral (old, new or both) Due in on Wednesday 29^th November

Dolphin's Assembly about Guy Fawkes

Dear Dolphin Class, Mrs Hodder and Mrs Short,

We really enjoyed your fantastic assembly! You were all very confident and did extremely well talking over the building work. You told the story really well and we could tell you worked really hard. You remembered all of your words and had really loud, clear voices. We loved your props and you had fantastic acting. You also reminded us clearly of the firework safety rules.

By Elizabeth Dixon and Ruby Rix

Year 2 School Games Event: Intrahouse Event.

Subject	Activity
Reading	Read every night and see if you can find some rhyming words within your book.
English	Please complete and mark together page 30 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together: pages 20 question 3 Page 21 question 2 page 22 questions 1 & 4 page 23 question 2 of the Maths workout CGP book.
Spellings	camel table tunnel bible travel title angel candle label cradle
Project this half term	I can share information about St Paul’s Cathedral (old, new or both) Due in on Wednesday 29^th November

All ready for a spooky house day.

Please learn for our class assembly:

Everyone:

Remember, remember the fifth of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot,

We see no reason

Why Gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot!

Boys:

Guy Fawkes, guy, t’was his intent

To blow up king and parliament.

Three score barrels were laid below

To prove old England’s over throw

Girls:

By God’s mercy he was catch’d

With a darkened lantern and burning match,

So holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring.

Holler boys, holler boys, God save the king.

Everyone:

And what shall we do with him?

Burn him!

Homework 20th October

Please practice words for class assembly.

Reading	Don’t forget to enjoy reading and sharing books from home and the library.
English	Please complete and mark together page 6 & 7 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together pages 24 & 25 of the Maths workout CGP book. Remember on page 25 to show your workings.
Spellings	Practise any spellings from this half term which needed extra focus.
Project this half term	I can share information about St Paul’s Cathedral (old, new or both) Due in on Wednesday 29^th November

Diwali dancing

I can use different materials.

Homework 13th October

Subject	Activity
Reading	Read every night. Find some interesting noun phrases.
English	Please complete and mark together pages 2 & 3 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together the bar modelling worksheet using number bonds to 10, 20 & 100.
Spellings	wrap bubble wrapper cuddle wrist middle write puddle wrong apple
Project this half term	I can use different materials. Due in this week Wednesday 18^th October

Our Great Fire of London Marvellous Middle Workshop

There are more photos from our Marvellous Middle on the Whale class page.

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 6.10.17

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Read every night. Imagine you are a character within your story, orally retell what is happening from your point of view. This doesn’t need to be written down.
English	Please complete and mark together page 28 & 29 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together pages 9 & 10 of the Maths workout CGP book.
Spellings	knee sign kneel gnash knives gnomes know gnarled knock gnaw
Project this half term	I can use different materials. Due in on Wednesday 18^th October

Homework 29th September

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Read every night. Can I find phrases written in the past tense?
English	Please complete and mark together page 26 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together pages 6 & 7 of the Maths workout CGP book.
Spellings	race city fancy ice price slice spice twice cinema circle
Project this half term Due in on Wednesday 18^th October	I can use different materials. Remember our Great Fire of London Workshop is on Monday 2^nd October and we all need to dress the part!
Parental Comment (Pupil’s response)

Shenfield St Mary’s Year 2 Homework 22.9.17

Subject	Activity	Tick when completed
Reading	Read every night. Can you find any joining words in your books?
English	Please complete and mark together pages 10 & 12 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling CGP book.
Maths	Please complete and mark together pages 1 & 2 of the Maths workout CGP book.
Spellings	badge giant fudge gentle trudge join page enjoy village joke
Project this half term Due in on Wednesday 18^th October	I can use different materials. i.e. collage of name using a variety of materials, exploring how materials can be changed e.g. twisting, squashing.
Parental Comment (Pupil’s response)