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.