Maths - numbers to 100, estimation

This week, we continued our good work on numbers to 100, and spent a lesson working on our estimation skills. The children were allocated into groups and asked to estimate how many objects were in a bowl. They had to record everyone's estimate and then count by grouping in tens to see who had the closest estimation.

Week 2 review and preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 2 2015

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	We have begun our topic ‘stories with familiar settings’. We had a close look at the story ‘ella’s school trip’ and the children had tremendous fun using puppets to retell the story in their own words.	planning and creating our own story with a familiar setting
Math	We have been comparing and ordering sets of  numbers to 100. We’ve been using 100 squares to find numbers bigger than or smaller than a given number. We’ve also been practicing counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s up to 100.	Order and compare 2-digit numbers and say a number between. Use language: equal to, more than, less/fewer than, most, least to find bonds of numbers up to 10. Use inverse relationship between addition and subtraction to solve missing number problems Know the multiple of 10 bonds to 100 and use to derive the multiple of 5 bonds to 100
Humanities	We continued our good work on ‘Islands’ by having a look at Koh Samui and understanding the concept of man-made and natural features.	understanding the types of transport used to travel around islands.
Science	This week we were learning about why humans need to drink and eat to survive. This children discussed what would happen and recorded their ideas on a chart before checking what would happen using a computer simulation.	that we eat different kinds of food to collect information and to present results as a block graph
Art	This week we began to learn how to sketch our faces and bodies, ensuring that we consider the proportions and shapes carefully.	observational drawing and sketching of our friend’s faces
PSHE	We’ve been getting to know our classmates better by thinking of questions to ask each other, such as ‘what’s your favourite colour?’	new beginnings PSHE scheme
Notices and Events	Healthy snacks from home please House colours shirts to be worn every Friday - please contact the uniform shop if needed

Science

This week we looked at what humans need to live and be healthy - the children recorded their ideas on what would happen if we had no food, or no water on a simple chart in groups.

Here is a link to an online game which the children enjoyed greatly.