Year 2
Friday 11th October 2024
This week in Year 2 has been great fun! In English, we are still using our focus book called Pattan's Pumpkin. We looked at possessive apostrophes to compare different items in the book. We are trying hard to remember where the apostrophe goes when it belongs to someone. In Maths, we started our addition and subtraction unit and we looked at using ten frames to work it out practically. We used our number bond knowledge to help us complete number families. In PE, we developed our throwing and catching skills. We focused on making sure we use two hands and watching the ball as it comes to us. We loved dressing up on Thursday! Everyone's outfits were great! In History we found out about the first moon landing! We asked questions about the past and investigated why the moon landing was significant. We had a super fun time at our African drumming workshop on Friday! We loved exploring different sounds and finding out about all the different instruments.
Next week in English, we will be using our innovation skills to create story maps with our own changes to the story of Pattan's Pumpkin. In Maths, we will be continuing our addition and subtraction unit and thinking about fact families and number bonds.
Friday 4th October 2024
What a busy week we've had in Year 2 this week! We've started a new English book called 'Pattan's Pumpkin.' We really enjoyed making predictions about what we thought the book would be about - we had some super imaginative ideas! We looked at the new vocabulary linked to the text and started to ask questions. We are trying hard to remember our question starter words and ending questions with a question mark. In Maths, we've been looking at the 2x, 10x and 5x times tables! We've used our knowledge of our times tables to fill in number tracks, hundred squares and answer problems. In Science, we've been researching different habitats on iPads to find out who lives there, what they eat and how they find shelter. In Art this week, we have been using our sketching skills to carefully sketch teddy bears. In Computing, we created our own inventions thinking about how they could have computers inside.
Next week in Science we will be finding out how living things depend on each other. In Geography, we will be comparing the UK to Kenya and in Music we will be performing call and response chants with instruments.
Friday 27th September 2024
We've had another fun-filled week this week! In English, we have continued our work on our English book Space Tortoise. We had a think about how we would feel if we were the main character, Space Tortoise, and we wrote our very own diary entries focusing on the past tense and use of exciting adjectives. When we had written our diary entries, we had a go at editing them to see if wecould add any more information or improve our choice of words.
In Maths, we have started to compare numbers. We looked at the greater than, less than and equal to symbols. (YouTube videos are great for embedding this knowledge!) - we used these symbols to compare the value of different numbers. Our teachers are very impressed at how confident we are with numbers!
PE was great fun - we have started to learn how to dribble a ball and stop a rolling ball using our feet. The children were calm and careful ensuring that they used soft touches and kept control of the ball. In Art, we used a range of different mark making to create different textures. We definitely have some artists in the making! In Science, we explored a range of habitats including ocean, rainforest, woodland and coast. BBC Bitesize KS1 is a great website for learning Science at home.
Friday 20th September 2024
We are really enjoying Year 2 and really pleased with how quickly the children are settling in! We are so proud of every single one of them! This week, we have been exploring our Space Tortoise English book and using a range of adjectives to describe how Space Tortoise feels at different parts in the story. We are enjoying exploring different feelings and expressing these through a range of sentence types and punctuation. In Maths, we have been partitioning two digit numbers in a range of ways. Please help us at home by helping us to learn our 10 times table (Youtube videos are great for this!). We have absolutely loved Computing this week - we discovered what inputs and outputs are and how technology is controlled. Design Technology was super fun - we designed our very own ferris wheels. We had to think about what resources we might need and how we could make our designs work.