Weekly review/preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 3 2015

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	We’ve been planning our own story with a familiar setting by creating our own characters and setting and planning using a storyboard with pictures and sentences.	continuing our work on stories with a familiar settings with a focus on superheroes!
Math	We’ve been practicing our mental recall of addition facts to 10 and beginning to understand that addition can be done in any order (1+9=10 & 9+1=10). We’ve also found out that addition and subtraction are inverse operations and that subtraction can be used to solve missing number addition problems.	Recall number facts to 20; number pairs (4 to 20) and bonds to 10 and 20 Begin to write word problems Double numbers to 20, including partitioning teen numbers, and find related halves
Humanities	We’ve been thinking about different modes of transport and found out about the three main routes of travel: by land, air and sea. We’ve considered appropriate methods of transport on small islands and how we’d get between places of interest.	continuing our good work on Islands
Science	We’ve learnt about the 5 food groups and carried out a survey to find our favourite foods in each group.	That sometimes we eat a lot of some foods and not very much of others
Art	We drew our friends faces using the model we learnt last week. We looked at the shape of their faces so that we could use the appropriate proportions.	To design a fantasy island treasure map including features such as ‘x marks the spot’.
PSHE	We are learning about how our classroom and school is a community. We already know our friends quite well but we played a game called ‘Hedgehogs’ to see if we could identify the ‘hidden’ person.	new beginnings PSHE scheme
Notices and Events

Literacy - stories with familiar settings

This week we continued our good work on stories with familiar settings - one task was to discuss other familiar settings and in a group create a mind map of ideas. The teamwork demonstrated by all was very encouraging.