Week ending 28.1.16

This week in English, Year 2 have been working on creating their own board games and writing instructions showing how to play them. The children really enjoyed this activity and will be able to take their games home, we hope you enjoy playing them! The focus for this weeks Maths has been Addition, specifically adding three numbers together. All of the children worked hard to master the techniques needed and were able to achieve this. In Topic the children had the opportunity to use the internet to research transport from other countries comparing it to the transport found in the UK. The children thought of reasons for the need for different types of transport around the world. 

Week ending 22.1.16

This week Year 2 have been looking at Division in Maths. Each class has been learning ways of sharing numbers, the children really enjoyed sharing Smarties on the Tuesday, especially eating them! In English the children have been writing stories featuring Anansi the Spider, a tricky character from African and Caribbean traditional tales. This week's Topic the children gathered information about how the class travels to school. This information was then used to complete graphs. You may have noticed spellings coming home for the children to learn, we will be testing them on these spellings on Thursdays or Fridays, so please do help your child to learn them if possible.

Week ending 14.1.16

This week Year 2 have been looking at Multiplication in Maths. The children have been working hard to understand repeated addition, how to use arrays and learn their 2, 5 and 10 times tables. If you have any free time at home going through their times tables with them would prove very useful. In English the children have been looking at Traditional Tales and the story of The Gingerbread Man. Year 2 used this tale to write stories and create wanted posters. In Topic we will be looking at the children's journeys to school creating a map showing the streets and landmarks they pass on the way.

Week ending 8.1.2016

Happy New Year! We hope you all had a lovely holiday, we've heard lots about the presents and fun days they've had. The childrens' holidays were the subject of this weeks Big Write and the children really enjoyed writing all about it. We have started our new topic 'From A to B' all about transport and travelling. In this week's lessons we have been thinking of all of the transport we can think of and then categorizing the types of transport. The children have been given a task for homework of writing about their journey to school and it would really helpful if you could give them a few pointers.