Hello everyone!

The children have worked extremely hard producing their own story on The Three Billy Goats Gruff; they created their own recurring sentences and including adjectives, exclamation and question marks.

In maths, the children enjoyed solving problems solving using coins and pounds.

Next week

English - we will be focusing on the story The Enormous Turnip and changing the characters and the recurring sentences.

Maths – we are starting our new topic on multiplication and division.

Home learning

To learn the 2, 5 and 10 times tables up to 12. We will also be revising these times tables in class over the next few weeks.

Science – to discuss what they would take on a trip to Mars to survive.

History – to find out about Samuel Pepys and his diary.

RE – to discuss and think about why religious places are special to people and how they help them to feel close to God.

Spellings for next Friday are:
Group 1 - them, do, me, down.
Group 2 - shine, shiny, scare, scary, bone, bony, stone, stony, smoke, smoky.
Group 3 - chimney, valley, alley, money.

Have 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, we have been looking at money and the children have solved maths problems using addition and subtraction with coins and pounds.

Next week, we will continue our topic on money and start to look at multiplication and division.

Home learning – to play shops with real/toy money. I have mentioned to the children that they can otherwise make their own money from paper.

 In science, the children described and drew pictures of the stages from a baby to an adult.

Next week, the children will draw a picture of how an animal changes as it grows.

 In D&T, we have discussed healthy eating and next week, 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.

 Spellings for next Friday are-

Group 1 – as, no, mum, one.

Group 2 – let’s, I’m, I’ve, isn’t, can’t, it’s, I’ll, didn’t.

Group 3 – they’re, couldn’t, hasn’t, we’ve.

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 have enjoyed learning the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff and they are starting to think of alternative ideas for their story, which they will write next week. In maths, the children have enjoyed learning money, solving calculations using different coins and notes.

Please see below the lessons for next week and an insight of the topics we will cover 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.

Maths - the topic is on money. Next week, they will be counting, comparing and calculating sums using notes and coins.

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 Wednesday 28th 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.

 

Please could the children make sure they have their full PE kit in school for next week’s lessons.

Don’t forget that if you wish to enter the competition to name our reading tree in the KS2 library, you need to give your class teacher a piece of paper with your name and class written on it and the name that you would like to give the tree, by next Friday at the latest.

 

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – not, then, were, go

Group 2 – cry, dry, July, fly, try, reply, by

Group 3 – quickly, multiply, supply, why

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.