What's your child doing now in Y2 - private or state

[wheelsonthebus]

What sort of writing are they doing - stories, poems, comprehension? And maths - division, fractions? Mine seem to be taught at an incredibly plodding rate...

They're currently learning about the meter of verse. At the moment they're on the dactylic hexameter. Reading homework is Virgil's Aeneid for obvious reasons. hth

Really, MrsJAP?

Mine are reading the Iliad. Greek hexameter is so much purer, I find.

Am teasing, OP.

Dd is reading books of fiction and poems, writing short short stories (and being told to use more adjectives), and doing multiplying. No division.
Homework is 10 spellings a week and the odd random Maths worksheet.

Connectives to make sentences more interesting. Writing short stories and factual pieces. Various art and craft projects. Maths is lots of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division including 3 digit numbers. Maths problems are presented in lots of different ways, including sentences and different vocab for the different operations. They use number lines a fair bit. They also do stuff with coins, eg how many different sums can you make with a certain set of coins.
Weekly spellings, writing & maths homework. Nothing too taxing.
Daily reading for home and lots of reading in school too, including guided reading and paired reading. DS is bringing home short chapter books and a mixture of fiction and factual. We seem to get Horrid Henry more often thatn I'd prefer , but have also had some interesting books about science and the war.

State school, btw.

20 mins homework 4 times a week plus 10 spellings a week and reading. English and maths worksheets alternating for homework.

much the same as others here.

I felt year 1 was the plodding year and year 2 has really taken off. I think that has way more to do with the rate at which my dd was learning last year compared to this year more than anything else.

They do seem to learn in fits and starts.

thanks - v useful to know.

Year 2 teacher, following national strategies etc (well more or less)

Literacy - instructions, traditional tales, connectives, verbs and adjectives, sppech bubbles, un/dis words, compound words.

Maths - counting in 2,3,4,5 and 10. Adding 3 numbers to make 20, doubles and halves, 2x,5x,10x tables

Topic - Florence Nightingale, Great Fire of London, comparing 2 contrasting environments

Science - Health and Growth, Life cycles, Forces.

10 spellings a week, reading as much as they can and 1 literacy 1 numeracy sheet a week.

hth

Year 2 teacher
This week writing letters to Dear Fairy Godmother (the agony aunt of fairy tale characters)
revising split diagraph vowels
compound sentences
vocabulary
comprehension
handwriting
Maths
Learning 2X 5X & 10X tables depending on what they already have mastered
symmetry
place value
ranging from doubling and halving to multiplying 2 digit numbers and division with remainders

Mini topic- Chinese New Year

Science - Materials and Change

DS (yr2) has just had homework on lines of symmetry (and patterns of symmetry) this week. Last weeks was on multiplication/basic division.

5 spellings per week for bottom group , 7 for middle group and 9 for top group.

Literacy homework this wk is creative writing (ie given a story and they have to write the ending) Last weeks was comprehension.

They have covered traditional tales and how a story (book) is laid out iyswim.

He gets one reading book a week and has now progressed to chapter books (sooo pleased to see the last of ORT, although starting to go through it again with DD in nursery )

A few wks ago he had a times table worksheet to do although I think it was yr3 work.

AFAIK he has not done any fraction work yet but does recognise 1/2 & 1/4, 3/4 etc....

Oh, forgot to say they have done work on partitioning too.

Hi wheelsonthebus

DD2 in Y2

Maths: . Current unit seems to be on measuring & converting mm to cm, cm to m and m to Km (so learning x10 and x1000 & inverse operation divided by 10 or divided by 1000). A bit of estimating measures/ weights homework as well - so guessing weight of apple and then weighing it.

Reading: Guided reading book (differentiated for ability by sets in this) + school library book & class library book. Reading diary - still just parents signing in, but sometimes I let her write something

they're learning about food at the moment (food from all over the world) - making things (& measuring) & parents coming in to make favourite recipes.

Not sure what other units might be.

In maths there is no sign of fractions yet (although DD1 was introduced to 1/2 and 1/3 and 1/4 in Y2). DD2 has had x2, x5 & x10 (knows more because we do more at home) but not sure whether Y2 is still working with this. Tendency to only teach these 3 multiplication tables in Y2 (which is fine for those that struggle, but means that DCs who've mastered x2, x5, x10 have to wait until Y3 to learn more). Addition/ subtraction with 2 and 3 digit numbers (either adding/ subtracting one or two digits happened a lot last term - is clearly differentiated so lower ability are really working on going over 10s & carrying. I know they quite often get additions/ subtactions from tens or hundreds (so 100 - 20 lower group - as opposed to 153 - 38 for higher ability group).

As I suspected, my ds's 'Outstanding' school really sucks. He does reading: guided reading which is rarely guided or listened to as he is in top group; sharing book, usually too easy for him; library book that is more aimed at my three year old. In Maths it has been partitioning and seeing how to make a sum, ie 24=20+4, his group being given three digit numbers, still too easy for him, and then weighing. Ten spelling words a week and no homework unless they goof off in class and don't finish. The teacher said at the beginning of the year that she would differentiate the work based on ability, but ds is bored stiff and has started asking for me to buy him more workbooks to do at home. The school operates the 'No Child Left Behind', which really equates to if your child is able they are left to take care of them self. Pathetic!

putmeashape - you have my sympathies. Our syllabus has not come near to what mrsz is describing IMO - ie multiplying two digit numbers, and division with remainders.

To be fair that is only my most able children others are still working on basic division.