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Y2 Weekly Update: Week 8 2015

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week, we have continued our work on poetry by looking at shape poems. These are poems that are written in the layout of what they are about. So clouds poems will be in the shape of a cloud for example. We also have our big writing assessment on our weekend news, as well as the writing about our trip to Kidzania.	Half term holiday writing and finishing off our unit on poetry.
Math	This week we used bead strings and number lines to order numbers. We also placed numbers on a landmarked number line and compared them using the > (greater than) and < (less than) symbols.	Know and use ordinal numbers Understand that 2-digit numbers are made from some 10s and some 1s Understand place value using 10B and 1B coins; find and record all possible amounts using 10B and 1B coins Find 10B more and 10B less Find 10 more and 10 less
Humanities	This week we peer reviewed our island models, thinking about what looks good and what we could improve.	New topic - Holidays in the past To understand that our holidays are often timed around celebrations or festivals.
Science	Linking in with our trip to Kidzania, the children had the opportunity to role play being a paramedic or a surgeon, or to discuss how to look after animals.	that medicines can be dangerous if we take them without consulting parents or doctors recognise hazards and risks in medicines and how to avoid these communicate information about the safe use of medicines
Art	We made an underwater scene by weaving pieces of different materials through a loom and then decorating it with sequins and fish.	Observation drawing
Notices and Events	Halloween - we will celebrate Halloween on the 30th October - fancy dress is required!

Maths - sorting shapes using carroll diagrams

We continued our work on shapes by sorting them using Carroll diagrams - the children had to look at the features of the 2D shape and sort them according to a strict criteria.