Welcome to Year 2!
Your teachers are Miss Edmondson (Monday-Thursday) and Miss Cook (Friday). The other team members are Mrs Birch and Miss Sharma.
Useful information:
- Reading books are changed on Monday and Thursday, but please bring reading folder to school everyday.
- Homework is given on a Monday, to be uploaded to Google Classroom by the following Monday. Spelling test will be on a Friday.
- PE is on Tuesday and Thursday morning. Please wear PE kit to school on these days.
***Thursday 12th September is our open evening, where parents are invited into the classroom to see the learning space, to ask questions and to find out more about what we will be doing in Year 2.
Autumn Term
Over this term we have much to look forward to. The following information gives you an overview of each subject.
English
Our class texts this term link to the theme of Autumn. For our first book, we will be reading 'Esio Trot' by Roald Dahl. This fun story introduces us to the world of Mr Hoppy, who comes up with a cunning plan to win over the lovely Mrs Silver. The key to this plan is her tortoise and this links beautifully with our Science, with our learning about habitats and hibernation. Our following class texts are The Gigantic Turnip and The Enormous Potato, both of which are retellings of the traditional tale.
All of three of these stories have familiar settings, enabling us to relate what we are reading to our own experiences. We will be writing in role, we will be adapting these stories to our own versions and we will also make links to information writing, for example, a recipe for turnip soup or facts about tortoises.
In our SPAG learning we will be looking at a different spelling rule each week (linked to that week's spelling test). We will also be revising vowels and consonants, identifying nouns and adjectives, punctuating sentences and starting to look at suffixes. Below are a couple of useful BBC bitesize links to reinforce our learning on nouns and adjectives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zpd8ng8https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zy2r6yc
- read, write and recognise numbers to 20
- count objects to 100
- recognise 10s and 1s
- partition numbers to 100
- estimate and compare amounts
- order objects and numbers
- count in 2s,. 5s and 10s
- know number bonds to 10 and 100
- recall fact families (related calculations)
- add and subtract 1s and 10s
- add three 1-digit numbers
- add and subtract across a 10
- add two 2-digit numbers
- missing number problems
3. shape
- recognise 2D and 3D shapes
- count sides and vertices on a shape
- draw 2 D shapes
- find lines of symmetry on shapes
- count faces, edges and vertices on 3D shapes
- sort shapes
- make patterns with shapes
There are lots of practical ways in which you can support at home. Building your child's confidence with counting, ordering, reading and writing numbers to 100 is a great place to start. It can be as simple as playing a game of snakes and ladders or counting out collections of objects like buttons. There are activities that you can complete on Mathletics. Below is a weblink with some ideas about how to support learning place value at home. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/advice-for-parents/learning-at-home-videos/parent-how-to-videos/how-to-help-with-place-value-videos/
RE
This half term our big question is 'Why is it good to listen to and remember the stories that Jesus told?' We will be looking at some of the parables that Jesus told to unpick the meaning behind these stories. We will be reflecting on how we can relate the key messages of these parables to our lives in school and at home.
Science
In our topic of 'What's in your habitat?' we will learn about different habitats, how the living things are suited to the habitat and the interactions between the living organisms within a habitat. We will explore a habitat by identifying things that are living, once-lived and never-lived. We will construct food chains that show how living things depend on each other. Finally we will consider how living things are suited to a particular habitat.
We are hoping to create a 'bug hotel' in our playground, so watch this space for news on how we progress with this.
BBC Bitesize Habitats
History and Geography
In our topic of The Great Fire of London, we will delve into the fascinating events around this key event and learn about what it was like to live in the capital at this point in time. If you have the opportunity, you might want to take a visit into central London to see The Monument and find out about how this landmark relates to the fire of 1666.
In Geography our topic is 'In Our Street'. We will use maps, both paper copies and digital versions, to identify local features and we will have a go at making our own maps of the local area. We will develop a sense of place, by asking questions about the use of the land around school. Are the houses all the same? How busy are the roads? What is it like to live in the area? Do all the buildings have the same use?
Art
This term we will be studying the work of L.S.Lowry. Take a look at this picture that he painted. What do you think the people are doing? Why do you think this? What time of day do you thing it is? Can you spot the man reading a newspaper? Are there any children in the picture? What do you notice about what most of the people are wearing?
Watch this space for our own Lowry inspired paintings!
Here's to a happy and productive term!
Miss Edmondson and the Year 2 team.
