Good afternoon everyone!

In English the children role played the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip‘  and practised the  recurring language, we also discussed the punctuation in the story. They created a detailed storyboard and sequenced the story.

Next week, the children will write their own version of ‘The Enormous Turnip’. They will change the characters and repeated phrases and they will include commas and exclamation marks.

In D&T our topic is on healthy food, this Thursday the children will be creating fruit kebabs. (The children do not need to bring in any fruit for this lesson, the school will provide this)

In maths, the children will continue to learn new methods of grouping and regrouping to 10, subtracting 2-digit numbers.

In science the children will think about their mission to Mars and they will make suggestions about items they would take with them on their trip.

In history the children will be discovering and learning about Samuel Pepys and his diary.

The majority of children have brought home some CGP books, if possible please could the children complete the following pages and return the book by Wednesday, we will go through the answers every Friday as a class.

Maths

Number and Place Value pages 1 and 2

English Comprehension

How to grow a seed page 1

Making Lemonade page 2

English Grammar

Nouns pages 2 and 3

 

Wishing you a great weekend

From the Year 2 team

Good afternoon to all!

The children have had a very productive week in English planning their own version of The Three Billy Goats Gruff. They have worked very hard checking they have changed the characters and repeated phrases, including commas, adjectives and exclamation marks.

Next week, in English the children will write their stories and we will be continuing our topic on recurring language. We will be looking at the story The Enormous Turnip.

In maths, the children learnt about pictograms, tally charts, tables and totaling and comparing amounts in block graphs. The children discussed the graphs in detail and asked and answered questions to consolidate their learning.

Next week, the children will be solving problems with addition and subtraction, applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods by using place value and number facts to solve problems with addition and subtraction.

 In science, the children described and drew a picture of how an animal changes as it grows.

Next week, they will name and describe how humans change as they grow.

 In art, the children drew and shaded in a very detailed insect for the art display.

Next week, we will be discussing healthy eating and the children will draw a detailed fruit kebab.

 In history, the children learnt the events of the Great Fire and next week the children will find out why the fire spread so quickly and stayed alight for so long.

 

Please can the children bring in their reading books every day so we can change their books more regularly.

Have a great weekend

From the Year 2 team

Good afternoon all, it has been a busy, fun week.

In maths, the children learnt pictograms, tally charts, tables and totalling and comparing amounts in block graphs. The children discussed the graphs in detail and asked and answered questions to consolidate their learning.

Next week, the children will be applying their increasing knowledge of mental and written methods by using place value and number facts to solve problems with addition and subtraction.

In English the children role played the story of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff‘ using recurring language, we also discussed the punctuation in the story. They created a detailed storyboard and sequenced the story.

Next week, the children will start to write their own version of ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’. They will change the characters and repeated phrases and they will include commas and exclamation marks. We will also discuss speech marks to use in their recurring sentences.

In history we started our new topic on ‘The Great Fire of London’ and the children are really enjoying learning about London and when are where is started.

Next week, the children will be learning the events of the Great Fire of London.

In art, the children practised drawing detailed insects for our class display.

In science, we discussed how animals and humans change as they grow. Next week, the children will describe and drew a picture of the process.

 On Tuesday morning the children are attending a Jungle drama workshop.

The children have brought home a leaflet giving ideas for the costume the children can wear on our Great Fire of London workshop on the 8^th February. Please do not worry if you do not have anything, you do not need to buy a costume.

Have a great weekend

From the Year 2 team.

 

Happy New Year everyone!

The children have settled extremely well back into the daily routine. 

They wrote about a favourite day within the Christmas holidays and in maths the children enjoyed estimating then measuring the classroom and hall along with reading different scales.

Please see below the lessons for next week and an insight into the topics to be covered in this term.

English - our topic starts with stories with recurring literacy language. Our first traditional story will be The Three Billy Goats Gruff. The children will role play and create their own version of this story over two weeks.

 

Maths - the children will be looking at statistics. Next week they will be totalling and comparing amounts in block graphs, creating pictograms, tables and tally charts.

 

Science - our topic is animals, including humans. The children will discuss and observe that animals, including humans have offspring which grow into adults, by describing the changes to animals as they grow.

 

History - the topic is on the Great Fire of London. We will start the topic by introducing where and when the Great Fire of London started.

 

D&T - the topic is preparing fruit and vegetables. The children will discuss fruit and vegetables and investigate a variety of fruit and vegetables to understand where a range of fruit and vegetables come from.

 

ICT - the children will develop familiarity and typing skills with the computer and keyboard along with, understanding that the internet contains a large amount of information and recognise the need to use search tools and search engines to begin to find information. The children will also create a healthy eating poster.

 

PSHE - the topic is Dreams and Goals, encouraging the children to stay motivated when doing something challenging. The children will identify their successes and know how this makes them feel proud.

 

RE - the children will be learning different ways of giving thanks to God. They will discuss where they like to go that is special to you? The children will discuss and draw their special place. Within the term we hope to be able to visit Little Heath Christ Church.

On Tuesday 8th February we will have a workshop and actors visiting us on our history topic The Great Fire of London. We do require parent helpers please either for the morning, afternoon or all day to support us with the activities. Please let me know if you available.

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.