Al Ain English Speaking School

مدرسة العين الناطقة باإلنجليزية

‘Achieving Excellence’

Week beginning Sunday 27th October

Our Year 2 Learning Pathway

Dear Parents/Guardians,

We hope that you are having an enjoyable and restful break and look forward to seeing you again on Sunday 27th October at 7.35am.

Reading Challenge: The ‘Emirates Read-a-thon’ will continue during the next half term. Please encourage your child to engage with this reading initiative as a way to encourage them to read every day. Regular reading is vital to achieve academic successful across the curriculum. We are hoping all students will manage to complete the challenge by the winter break - 12th December. Good luck!

Drawings by Me: We are pleased to inform you that students will be taking part in this annual project which enables students to create UAE art designs that can later be transferred onto items such as mugs, pencil cases and cards to be bought as gifts.

Just a reminder that: Home learning is sent out at the start of each week. Please return the homework book the following Sunday. (Home learning is NOT compulsory). Please ensure you spend at least 15mins per day reading with your child. Ask them questions to check their understanding of the texts and encourage them to ask questions too.

Please visit our school website www.aaess.org to access information regarding school events, the school calendar, the parent’s handbook and various other AAESS information. Check and sign your child’s communication book every day. Any messages from school will be in there.

Homework: Only do the questions that are most suitable for your child. Links to Maths games: https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/whackAMole/index.html (counting) https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/hundredHunt/ (10 more/ 10 less)

In School learning this week:

PA

THS

Engl

ish

La

ngu

age To become familiar with the ‘Humph’s Travels’ book by story mapping

To make predictions about a story

To sequence events in a story

Mat

hs To recognise how to add and subtract and the mathematical language related to this

To recognise the symbols +, - and =

To know that we can add numbers in any order but we can’t subtract in any order

Oth

er

Sub

ject

s To study maps and keys

To look at our class and make a map of it

To introduce an atlas

Al Ain English Speaking School

مدرسة العين الناطقة باإلنجليزية

‘Achieving Excellence’

Home learning this week

English Can you think of ways to up-level these sentences?

I ate a big cake.

Lujain fell sleep.

Pitos felt excited.

They went to the park. Examples of how to up-level your sentences: Say when the thing happened. Add adjectives or adverbs. Who did it happen with? Why did it happen? Make sentences with some of your spelling words. Challenge: Can you all of your sentences with your eyes shut?

Maths Pick a colour/level to start on – DO NOT DO ALL OF THE LEVELS

Count in 2s Count in 3s Count in 5s Count in 10s

2, ____, ____ 5, ____, ____

0, ____, ____ 4, ____, ____

5, ____, ____ 30, ____, ____

0, ____, ____ 30, ____, ____

20, ____, ____ 34, ____, ____

35, ____, ____ 49, ____, ____

60, ___, ____ 0, ____, ____

14, ____, ____ 56, ____, ____

67, ____, ____ 134, ____, ____

78, ____, ____ 142, ____, ____

61, ____, ____ 325, _____, ___

290, ____, ___ 121, ____, ___

REMEMBER… Capitals, full stops, and finger spaces.

Al Ain English Speaking School

مدرسة العين الناطقة باإلنجليزية

‘Achieving Excellence’

Real – Life Maths Problems: Only do the level that is suitable for your child:

Yahya has 14 plums. He buys 3 more. How many does he have now?

Cameron has 32 cakes. He gives 11 to Latifa. How many will he now have?

Khalifa bought two boxes of TEN packets of popcorn. his mum gave him 3 more boxes of TEN. How many packets of popcorn does Khalifa have in total?

7 people were Nataly’s car. 4 got out. How many are in her car now?

33 people were in Amro’s house. Ten of them went home How many were left?

Ninety-seven people were in school today. Fourteen were sick so they got sent home. How many were in school, by the end of the day?

Have a great week! With kind regards, Year 2 Team