Today in numeracy children were measuring real bikes. Children choose the correct measuring equipment to measure the parts of the bikes, toy cars and tools.
Y2 Estimate and Measure Length
Year: 2012
Get Talking get Learning Homework
Phonics
The new phonics groups are up and running and the children are trying really hard on their sounds and writing- keep it up!
Literacy
We have been looking this week at the Nag Club by Anne Fine- We have been focusing on how characters act and develop through a story. Next week we will be moving onto the plot of the story and how the story develops- this will then help us when we come to extend the story.
Literacy Homework (For literacy children only) Create your own nag to get your very own boggle hat- you could draw you in your boggle hat and create a lesson to teach other children how to use your nag!
Numeracy This week we have recapped adding with and without a 100 square. Next week we are moving onto measures and doing some real life measuring around school.
Numeracy Homework Measure the length/height of 8 objects around your house. What do you measure in? (m, cm). If you don’t have a ruler then you could estimate how long items could be. (more/less than 30cm)
Topic
This week we have been introduced to our new topic of ‘Time Travel!’ We received a bag from a lost time traveller and our mission is to try to help him! In science, we learnt about Thomas Edison who was an inventor- can you find out any more facts? Maybe even find research another inventor.
Y2 Time Travel! (new topic this term)
Year 2 have found an old suitcase in the centre of the carpet in their classrooms, surrounded by “dust” and glitter.
- Who has left the bag?
- Where has it come from?
- What clues do we have?
What we found inside the suitcase was:
- A letter from the time traveler
- Glasses
- Log book
- Old photos
- Birth Certificate
Children put clues together to get a big picture
. Find out later what “Mission” has been set……
Get talking Get Learning Homework
| Phonics
A big well done to all the children in phonics who are trying really hard with their sounds! Please keep reading the books that are sent home with them to help them improve. Literacy We have been working very hard this week on our story telling. We have made up our own story following a plan and also making them up from a selection of nouns. After half term we are staying with stories and will be looking at stories by Anne Fine. Literacy Homework (For literacy children only) Have you read any books by Anne Fine? Can you think of any other famous authors that we could look at in literacy? Write me a letter to persuade me to read your favourite book.
Numeracy Next week we will be looking at adding- we will be looking at using a hundred square, adding tens and units with and without using a hundred square. Numeracy Homework We have set you some mathletics homework- keep singing your times tables toons to get better at your times tables.
Topic We have finished Come Dine With Me and will be starting our new topic after half term- all will be revealed on Monday! Why not keep a diary of all the fantastic things that you do over half term so we can share the first day back? |
Year 2 Discovery Day!
Children have been busy cooking food this morning for their topic “Come Dine With Me” from different countries in their groups (i.e. India, China, Jamaica and Italy.)
They cooked:
- Italian pasta
- Chapattis with cucumber/mint dip from India
- Chinese vegetable stir fry
- Jamaican banana cake
After lunch both classrooms were restaurants and they had “Round The World Feast”. The teachers acted as waitresses to serve food.
Year 2 “Food Faces”
Children created a “food face” pictures by cutting out different fruits/vegetables pictures with different facial features, like a banana for the mouth and
apples for the eyes.
Y2 Planning Plant Investigation
Children set up their experiments and placed their pots in the destinations decided last week. Children used cotton wool instead of soil and cress seeds with a tiny bit of water. Children shared ideas and told each other what is happening at each stage and what needs to happen next.
2B Inspire Work Shop
A big “thank you”
to all parents in 2B who attended our work shop. We had great fun exploring Mathletics, Purple Mash and the Bearwood Blog. Again, many thanks Miss Beasley.
2B Inspire!
A quick reminder that 2B inspire will be on Tuesday 31st January at 9:00. Please make sure that someone can be there to support your child. Thank you, Miss Beasley.
Get Talking Get Learning Homework
| Phonics
A big whoosh to all the children who are reading their books and sound sheets. Please support your children at home by reading with them and talking about the book with them. Literacy This week we have started work on poetry, we have looked at a range of different poems (Some of our reviews are on the blog!) and we have had a try at performing piece of poetry. Next week we are staying with poetry and will finish the week writing our competition entry! Literacy Homework (For literacy children only) Note down some ideas for your competition entry- What is your poem going to be about? What WOW! Words can you use in your poem? Are you going to have a shape poem? Rhyming poem?
Numeracy This week we have been using all of our numeracy knowledge to work out missing symbols from questions. Next week we will be warming our brains up with the 4 times tables then we are going to continue to be numeracy detectives working out the missing numbers from questions and creating our own rules to work out the answer! Numeracy Homework Can you create a games for your 4 times table to play at home to help you learn your times tables? Why not share times table toons with your family at home and show them how good you are at singing them?
Topic |
This week we have created our own restaurant. Next week we are going to be creating a menu to use in our restaurant it will include a range of different food from your country including WOW! Words to describe them! Can you think of as many WOW! Words as you can to help describe some of the food that you have on your menu?