Happy New Year everyone!

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

They have enjoyed learning the story of ‘The bear under the stairs’ which we will continue next week. The children wrote about a real life experience of something that scared them.

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 book is ‘The bear under the stairs’ by Helen Cooper. The children next week, will write a letter in role as a character and create a reply. We will also be looking at the different graphemes for the grapheme ‘air’.

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, when and how the Great Fire of London started.

Art - the topic is painting and mixed media. The children will develop their knowledge of colour mixing, use paint to explore texture and pattern and compose a collage.

ICT – our topic is robot algorithms. The children will give instructions and then explain what happens when we change the order of instructions and they will design and test their algorithm.

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 Thursday, we will have our workshop 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 see previous blog for ideas of clothing if your child would like to dress in period style clothing.

Spellings for next Friday are:

Group 1 – to, two, one, won, see, sea.

Group 2 – knock, know, knee, knitting, knife, gnat, gnaw, gnash, gnome.

Have a great weekend.

From the Year 2 team.