End of Term 2

Wishing you all an enjoyable and safe half term whatever it is you may have planned. We’re hoping for more sun in the final term of our learning!

English

Busy! Busy! Busy!

We have started recapping on our learning in year 2 and looking at all the events that have taken place. The children have been looking at past pictures and answering Who? What? Why? When? Where? and How? This is developing thinking, writing and communication skills and it has been great to look back at so many memories and smiley faces.

   The children have started lots of work on Traditional Tales, we are having great fun writing our own scripts, telling the story of Goldilocks and the ‘two’ Bears. I wonder what happened to Daddy Bear? They are working very well together and enjoying this task, showing a great understanding for the story as well as how to write a script. VERY IMPRESSED!

Maths

This month we have been continuing to develop understanding of time, we explored o'clock, quarter past and to and half past. We have discussed 5 minute intervals and the children had a go at making their own clocks using lots of different materials and resources. 

We have done lots of work on graphs- bar graphs and pictograms. The children have completed their own class investigations (and some home ones too). They have been able to present their information clearly, following the key features of graphs. They have also created a pictogram using a different scale and investigated the most popular fairy tale characters in year 2.

More recently, we have explored money. We looked at currency from around the world, compared and discussed the coins available and we have been able to add and subtract using British money. Using our knowledge of this, we have then looked at multiplication as repeated addition- Phew! Exhausting work.

Topic

Investigating our area and creating bird’s eye views of Onegino and the school playground. 

We have also done a science investigation looking at which material bowls would be most suitable to keep the Three Bears porridge warm while the go on their walk. We notices that the shape of a bowl makes a difference. We predicted using reasoning and then found out that ceramic bowls worked the best.

Homework

Spellings have been set; please practise the correct formation of the letters too, in your best handwriting. 

Goodbye snow...?

English

Over the past few weeks, we have been studying the book- The Little Polar Bear by Hans de Beer. We have loved getting to know the different characters and learning about their habitats. We finished our book with letter writing. Lars is a Little Polar Bear on a survival trip with his Dad when they get separated. Lars finds himself on a tropical island and luckily makes some friends who help him get home. The children explored and identified the key features of a letter from a letter sent to Lars from his mother. Using their own knowledge and understanding of letters, then children then wrote their own letters in response.  They are AMAZING and I am very proud of the children! Please find these displayed in our clock room.

Phonics

We have been recapping a lot of our sounds and looking at ‘wh’ as questions starters.

Maths

Great work on fractions by all! We have explored fractions of numbers and shapes. We got very hungry looking at fractions of pizza.

What’s the time??

We have been developing our understanding of time with lots of creative activities as well as written recordings. We have concentrated so far on o’clock, half past and quarter to/past. Good understanding shown by all so far and we have had lots of fun. I hope to look at 5 minute intervals of time too soon so please, if you can, question children about the time at home.

Topic

We will now be moving away from ‘The Frozen Planet’ as our class topic to, we have all learnt a lot about the world around us; The Arctic, Antarctica, Russia and other countries in the world.

This week we have been identifying the continents and oceans and looking closely at maps and our location in Onegino and Moscow. We went on a walk of Onegino and looked at the different buildings around us. We noticed that it is much quieter and greener then than the city. J

 We will be completing aerial maps of Onegino and comparing our location here to Moscow.

Other activities-

Planting sunflower seeds, they are starting to grow quite tall!

Our (fingers crossed) last fall of snow.

Homework

Spellings have been sent out as well as some time worksheets. I would like the children to identify what they do in a day. I want the children to gain a further understanding of time by relating it to themselves and the activities and tasks they complete daily. Please choose a weekday or weekend to explore what they might do and the time.