Weekly Review and Preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 12 2015

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week we continued learning about ‘Instructions’. We used instructions to help us make origami craft and then we finished the week we an exciting lesson following a recipe for making pizza.	Next week is exam week, so we will complete some assessments with writing instructions and reading.
Math	This week in maths we’ve been using language of position, direction and movement. We’ve been giving directions to our friends to get around the school and describing the position of items around the class.	Add 2-digit numbers without crossing 10s/100s Subtract two 2-digit numbers by counting back in 10s and 1s where both digits in subtracted number are smaller Add and subtract two 2-digit numbers by counting on or back in 10s and 1s; solve addition and subtraction problems using concrete and pictorial representations Add near doubles to double 15
Humanities	We found out about seaside souvenirs. Souvenirs are small objects given or collected that remind you of a special time or place. We compared souvenirs that people used to buy in the past and souvenirs we collect now.	Practicing for the Christmas production
Science	This week we were learning how flowering plants would produce seeds that become new plants. This will lead into a project where we will grow our own plants.	to turn ideas of their own, about what plants need to begin to grow, into a form that can be tested to observe and make a day-by-day record of observations to use the results to draw a conclusion about what seeds need to begin to grow and decide whether this is what they expected that seeds produce new plants
Art	We used a viewfinder to draw a detailed section of a seaside picture.	Building props for the Christmas production
PSHE	Practicing for the Christmas production .	Practicing for the Christmas production
Notices and Events	Deadline for costumes to be brought into school has passed, if you have not brought your child’s costume to school then please do so as soon as possible.

Instructions pizza making

Continuing our good work on Instructions, we discussed and followed a recipe for making one of the children's most beloved food, Pizzas! It was a fun, messy and delicious activity that also highlighted how carefully the children could use equipment such as cheese graters and knives.