Friday, 30 October 2015

Weekly review and preview


Y2 Weekly Update:
Week 9 2015
                                                                                                                


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English
We began the week with writing about our holidays, before moving onto Halloween related activities, such as creating our own monsters and Halloween poems.
  • Begin our unit on Instructions
Math
This week we’ve been learning all about the position of objects in a group and how to use ordinal numbers to find positions. We’ve also been using the vocabulary ‘before’, ‘after’, ‘between’, ‘first’ and ‘last’.
  • 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 introduced our new topic ‘Seasides in the Past’ and thought about the activities that we like to do at the seaside.
  • To ask questions about how a seaside holiday was different in the past.
Science
This week, we finished off our unit of health and growth by discussing the importance and safety regarding medicines. This also included understanding which adults can give us medicine and when do we need to take medicine.
  • that there are different kinds of plants and animals in the immediate environment
  • to treat animals and the environment with care and sensitivity
  • to recognise hazards in working with soil
  • to observe and make a record of animals and plants found
  • to present results in a table
Art
During Art this week we began learning our Christmas production songs. We also had some time to draw a picture of our holiday.
  • Observational drawings
PSHE
Practicing for the Christmas production
  • Practicing for the Christmas production
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