It's that time of year in Year 2! We are already in the spirit of Christmas and the children have been busy learning their lines and learning the songs that go with our Christmas Play. It is called 'The Angel who nearly missed it all'. We have been so impressed with their enthusiasm. We are really looking forward to the dress rehearsal next week.

We have also been learning to add and subtract 2-digit numbers in maths and we concluded our work on the book Lost and Found by writing about a new Christmas character (instead of the penguin) in our golden books. We are starting our new Oliver Jeffers' book called 'How to catch a star' which will be out last story in Literacy this half term. 

Harvest, Art and Story Writing

This week in English we have started a new book - Invisible Fred! We are learning about questions and what some common question words are. We will soon write some questions for Fred. In Maths, we are continuing our place value topic. We have been counting in tens to 100. We have focused on number lines and making sure they go up at the correct intervals. We have strengthened our estimating skills by putting numbers on a blank number line. We even made our own massive number line! In science, we are busy conducting experiments and are beginning to understand what a prediction is and are trying to make some predictions in different experiments. 

Year 2 have had a wonderful final few weeks with our final forest school sessions, sports day and a trip to the Wetlands Centre. In English we have been finishing writing our own twisted tale based on the true story of the three little pigs. We th

Year 2 have had another busy two weeks! We have particularly enjoyed careers week this week and loved hearing from a garden designer as well as taking part in some yoga and a PT session!  In English, over the last two weeks we have focused ou

Year 2 have had a busy two weeks! 

In English we finished writing about the pros and cons of zoos and continued our ongoing debate about whether zoos are for animals or humans. We also read a new book by Anthony Browne called Gorilla. We made some inferences about how the character was feeling at different points in the story and why. 

In history, we went back in time to learn about and experience what a lesson was like in the Victorian times! We learnt about the 3Rs; reading, writing and arithmetic. Additionally, we learnt about how children had to sit in rows, use a blackboard and chalk and of course the strict punishments! 

In science we have continued exploring different habitats and discussing why animals are suited to their habitat. We discussed extreme habitats such as the arctic and desert as well as local habitats such as under the ground. 

In maths we finished our work on telling the time and have now been recapping the four operations. We are also moving on to a variety of reasoning problems and learning how to solve these. 

In PE, we have been doing some artistic gymnastics! We have been balancing bean bags, balls and using hoops to travel in a variety of different ways.