Year 2 Homework Blog

• Sew much fun!
  D&T week again and this week year 2 have learned a new skill, sewing!!! The children designed and made their own bag for a character of their choice. They joined the materials together using a running stitch. The children worked with resilience and concentration. They worked hard using the design criteria to design, make and evaluate a spectacular bag. All children should be super proud of their efforts this week, what superstars they are! We also had a very successful talent show today and I must say how amazing all the acts were. Well done for everyone for getting on ...
• Talent auditions!
  What a lovely week year 2 have had. This week we held our talent auditions for the talent show next Friday and I must say how talented they all are. I had a fabulous afternoon watching lots of singing, dancing, karate, comedy, football and much more. Everyone was so supportive of each other and it was such a close call with who was going to be in our top 3. After voting for each other we found the top 3 for Friday and what a great show it will be. Everyone who took part should be so proud of themselves ...
• Sports day and more!
  Well what an incredible couple of weeks year 2 have had. In maths we have been focusing on getting our heads around time. It is a very tricky concept to learn but I am so proud of how hard all of them have been working. In literacy, we have been focusing on writing recounts about our sports day. We have become news reporters and used time conjunctions to help explain what happened and we are currently leading up to writing our own news report about the exciting day. Regarding sports day, can I just say how proud I am of ...
• Sun, fun and seasides!
  Welcome back to another fun packed term. I am again looking forward to teaching year 2 this term as we have a lot of lovely things coming our way. Everyone has settled back into school very well and I have been so impressed with their continuous hard work in everything, especially their maths. Fractions has been very challenging but we all used our growth mind set and learnt so much. We kick started our new unit in History this week by going to our own seaside party on the playground. The children produced some wonderful poems to describe what it’s ...
• A very inspiring week!
  This week in year 2 we were very lucky to have a wonderful zoom meeting with Baroness Floella Benjamin and I must say the children and myself, were so inspired by her words and encouragement. We left the meeting feeling very proud of who we are and very much inspired by her beautiful words of wisdom. We have also been working super hard in Geography making our own Town maps and made some wonderful keys so it was clear for anyone to read our map. We looked closely at the difference between human and physical features and designed some wonderful ...
• Number day and lots of planting!
  We’ve had a super exciting week at school this week. We planted some wonderful seeds in our new planters and can’t wait for them to blossom into some wonderful plants. We also had a fun packed day on Number Day making 3D shapes out of biscuits such as Triangular prisms. We also measured out our own ingredients for our delicious smoothies and all enjoyed drinking and eating our wonderful masterpieces. Children also came dressed for the part and I loved all their costumes. Finally as part of our whole school unit on ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin the children ...
• Super scientist!
  This week Year 2 have been learning about seeds and how they are dispersed. We then dissected a lot of fruit and made predictions as to how many seeds we think will be in the fruit. It was a lot of fun and the children thoroughly enjoyed the dissecting. We learned how seeds are dispersed through wind, water and animals and role played these scenarios. In literacy the children wrote their final Diary entries based on the tale Rapunzel, we edited and improved our writing and I must say children made some wonderful pieces of writing which we have displayed ...
• Super Sporty Year two!
  What another fabulous week Year 2 have had. We continued to become gardeners and looked closely at how bulbs can grow into mature plants. We have recently got some lovely new planters in which we are going to plant lots of wonderful things next week so Year 2 have the chance to make their own garden, watch this space for some fabulous photographs. This week in PE we have worked super hard on our ball skills and we are very lucky to have some new tennis nets coming soon so we can play some tennis matches. We have also been ...
• Happy Friday Year 2!
  This week in Year 2 we have become gardeners and started our new unit in science on Plants. The children looked at seeds and then discussed whether a seed is living and non-living and then we planted our own sunflower seeds. We will be planting a lot more so watch this space for some wonderful photographs. We also became compass readers and went on a scavenger hunt using our own compass rose. We then made our own treasure map and guided our partners through the maze to the treasure using directional language such as North, South, East, West, forward, up ...
• Design and Technology week!
  This week Year 2 have been working super hard with investigating, designing and making their own fire engines based on our topic, the Great Fire of London. I must say the children have worked so hard this week with enthusiasm and determination to design and make the best fire engines ever. We looked at wheels and axles and made our own chassis (which was challenging but we all persevered). One of our objectives in our design criteria was to make sure that our fire engine moved and with our wonderful chassis, we all made moveable fire engines. Firefighters to the ...