Only 30 days of year 2 left!!!

We have realised today that we are about to begin the final 30 days of the children's time in year 2 and therefore at Garrick Green. 

However, we still have plenty of things left to do and look forward too. There's the whole school trip to Africa Alive, sports week and the making of puppets to name but three. The puppet making will be of an African animal that roams the savanna, can you begin to decide which one you would like to make? The animal each child selects to make a puppet of will then also be used as the basis of a poem that they will write. Eventually we are hoping to create our own class version of the book The Carnival of the Animals that is photographed below and was inspired by the music of Saint-Saens. Talking of music we also have the schools end of year performance to look forward to and in preparation for that it would be great if every child could begin to think about some of their favourite memories of there time at the school.

This week we have begun to consider how different books are more suited to different readers, with the language used in each being appropriate to that reader. This is some of the work we will do to be ready to write our own poems next week. If you can it would be great if you could begin to read poems in order to know some of the features of poems that you could use when we write them next week. In maths we have been focusing on continuing to use the skills and strategies taught to answer a variety of different problems, such as this...

The first person to come to Mr W or Mrs R with both answers will earn a team point! We have also been learning to tell the time and this has included conversations about the three different ways we talk about time. Can you tell your parents what those three ways are?

Finally, we would like to remind everyone that a PE kit is needed all week at school. As ever, if there are any questions or concerns please come and speak to one of the year 2 team.