Year 2 Homework Blog

• 19 November – Christmas is coming!
  It’s 35 sleeps ’til Christmas and Christmas is slowly creeping into our classroom! This week, we have been exploring the nativity in RE and investigating what Christians are celebrating and remembering on the 25th of December. The children put their creative skills to good use, modelling a nativity scene from play doh and then writing speech bubbles to explain what each character in the story could have been thinking and feeling before explaining what Christians today might think and feel during this festival time. Our music lessons are based around a Christmas pop/rap song and the children ...
• 12 November – Pond Dipping
  It has to be said that Friday was the highlight of our week! Despite the intermittent downpours, the children donned their coats and wellies and headed out to our pond area at the edge of our forest school (thank you Fil for maintaining this valuable resource so well). The children followed the golden rules of pond dipping brilliantly, keeping themselves safe and being respectful of the wildlife that they studied. Armed with nets, buckets, magnifying viewers and magnifying glasses, every child had the opportunity to pond dip before taking their finds carefully back to the classroom for ...
• 5 November – Happy Diwali
  Dear Parents, We have had a super start to the new half term. We continue our journey of addition and subtraction in maths and this week explored ‘column’ addition and subtraction which the children loved! In literacy, we are learning about instructional texts. We have learnt our focus text (How to trap a dragon) by heart which helps the children to internalise the structure and language. By the end of this unit, they will be writing their own set of instructions independently, complete with imperative verbs, adverbials of time and expanded noun phrases. Christmas feels like ...
• 22 October – Mondrian and Kandinsky
  I am so proud of all the children and how much progress they have made this half term. They have worked hard and produced some fantastic pieces of work. This week was Art Week and we have explored abstract art. We have looked at primary and secondary colours, investigated famous paintings and said what we liked about them, created colour wheels, produced a Mondrian-style piece of art and then painted a Kandinsky-style composition. The children have shown great independence when setting up their painting areas and tidying up after themselves. The Kandinsky-inspired work is still ...
• 15 October – Minibeasts, 3d towns and Harvest practices!
  I can hardly believe it is nearly the end of the first half term. The children are looking forward to our art week next week (please can you send in an old shirt with your child next week to use as an art apron) and I am looking forward to seeing you all at parents evening. If you haven’t yet booked your slot, there are still appointments available on the Thursday at the time of writing. This week we have been out exploring the school grounds for our science lesson. The children have learnt about micro-habitats and, armed ...
• 8 October – Town Planning
  This week, the children have been putting their geography skills to good use by designing the perfect town. First, they explored the difference between physical and human features (there are a few photographs below). Then they heard from the residents of Spring Town who weren’t happy with their town due to the poor location of a rubbish tip, lack of housing, shortage of schools and not enough shops. The children sprang into action and re-designed the town to include a physical feature, improved green spaces and a better layout. I can certainly see some future town ...
• 1 October – Frog and the Stranger
  We have just started our new book in literacy called ‘Frog and the Stranger’. The children impressed me with their initial inferences of the main characters before reading the complete story. As the narrative unfolded, we discussed the key themes such as realising that first impressions are not always right and that we shouldn’t exclude people because they are different. In maths, we have been reviewing our 2 and 5 times tables, growing in confidence with our ‘step counting’ over the last few days and using our reasoning skills to answer questions such as ‘if you count ...
• 24 September – seasides, non-chronological reports, place value charts and outdoor ball skills
  It was lovely to see so many of you at our meeting on Monday – thank you very much for giving up your time to come and find out a little more about what Year 2 will be like for your children. For those of you who weren’t able to come, I have popped the presentation onto our class page. If you have any questions after you have looked through it, please don’t hesitate to email the office or catch me on the playground at drop off or pick up. This week, the children have been writing ...
• 17 September – Penguins, symbols, tens and ones
  Apart from Tuesday (a horribly wet day!), we have been lucky with the weather this week and have been outdoors, taking our learning in to the open air. For example, we have been writing our phonics in chalk on the playground, practising ball skills on the field and exploring ‘living and not living things’ and ‘habitats’ in science through outside activities. We are continuing to explore our book ‘And Tango Makes Three’ and the children have had great fun getting into role as ‘Mr Gramzay the zookeeper’ through a hot seating activity before writing a diary entry (a ...
• 10 September – Welcome to Year 2
  Dear Parents / Carers Welcome to Year 2! It has been lovely to meet so many parents and carers over the past week, especially now we are able to welcome you onto the school grounds again. I am so proud of how well the children have settled into Year 2. They have quickly picked up our morning routine, putting their water bottles and lunches away, finding their pencil cases and beginning their maths fluency focus questions. In literacy, we are reading the book ‘And Tango Makes Three’ and the children have thoroughly enjoyed the story of the ...