Year 2

We’re so very close to Christmas! We have been very busy in year 2 this week and can’t wait for Christmas fun next week! We’ve been practising singing our carols in preparation for next week.

In English, we have been learning all about David Attenborough and his amazing life. We have been thinking about questions we would ask him if we ever got the opportunity to interview him. We have also started to learn new spelling rules as we are such super readers now. We have been learning all the tricky rules to adding the –ed suffix and how to find answers in a text when they are hiding!

In Maths, we have finished learning about money and have started our topic of multiplication and division. We have been making groups with counters and drawing them. We have been showing multiplication number sentences by using arrays and we are enjoying this new topic!

In Geography, we learnt all about coasts and coastal erosion. We talked about how coasts have changed over time and how they are continuously changing. In DT, we constructed plastic sculptures of underwater creatures and then displayed them at our own exhibition. It was great to see all our work on display!

We also joined in with the live lesson from Chester Zoo. We learnt all about why animals are certain colours and how it helps them survive! We loved seeing all the animals!

We’ve been feeling festive in the Eager Earthworms and the Fearless Fireflies this week!  Children were excited to see some decorations up in their classrooms and have had fun opening windows on class advent calendars.  

In English, children have started reading a new book called ‘10 Things I Can Do to Help My World’. They have enjoyed making posters to teach people what they have learned about little things that they can do to make a big difference to our planet.  Children were also delighted to receive responses to the letters that they wrote to Morrisons and Aldi. The supermarkets were very grateful to the children for writing to them and wanted to reassure children that they were doing lots of things to reduce their plastic waste production. The children were especially thrilled that Morrisons had stopped using glitter on all cards and wrapping paper in time for Christmas this year!  We are incredibly proud of them for being so persuasive! 

In Maths, children have continued their hard work with money, looking at price tags and calculating totals, counting mixed coins and finding the difference between two amounts. In Geography, children learned about different threats to our oceans and ocean animals such as discarded fishing gear and coral bleaching. They were then relieved when Morrisons mentioned in their letter to the children that their charity sends divers down to remove such gear from the ocean.

In DT, children prepared plaques telling people about their recycled plastic sculptures, ready for an exhibition each class will put on for the other next week. In Music this week children have been learning a song and exploring performing it with a range of different dynamics, singing some parts quietly and gradually getting louder to build to a dramatic end.  In Science, children were hunting for objects made from a range of different materials in their classrooms and thinking about why the properties of that material make it a good choice for that object.    

It has been an action-packed week!  We hope you have a restful weekend! 

This week has been very busy in Year 2! Christmas is fast approaching and we have started learning our songs for the Carol Concert!

In English, we finished writing biographies about Isatou Ceesey. She is such an interesting woman! From learning about all the fantastic things she has made from plastic, we have made our own skipping ropes from plastic bags. It was quite tricky but we persevered until we completed them. They look great!

In Maths, we have been consolidating our learning about money. We have found it quite tricky to add pounds and pence together but we are improving every day! We have also been learning about different ways to make the same amount.

In Geography, we planned a route across the world from the UK to The Great Barrier Reef. We pretended we were sailors and had to sail through the Atlantic, past Africa and round to the East coast of Australia. We used compass directions to write instructions of our journey.

In DT, we have completed building our underwater creatures. We only used plastic. We have learnt how to make something great out of what would have been rubbish. Now we have finished constructing our animals, we will be evaluating the building process.