Weekly review and preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 9 2016

                                                                                                                

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English	We continued our good work of really looking at the stars and constellations. The children had to design their own constellation in order to collaborate with other children and create a group story.	Begin our next topic on non chronological reports
Math	This week we’ve been learning about multiplication. We started by counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and writing these as repeated addition sums, such as 2+2+2+2=8. Repeated addition can be very long to write, so we found out that multiplication will give us the same answer. We know that the first number in a multiplication sums tells us how many groups there are and the second number tells us how many objects in each group. For example, 4x2 means that there are 4 baskets and each have 2 eggs in. The total is 8 eggs.	Tell the time to the nearest quarter of an hour using analogue and digital clocks; understand the relationship between seconds, minutes and hours and use a tally chart; interpret and complete a pictogram or block graph where one block or symbol represents one or two things.
Humanities	This week we looked at a lot of pictures of items from long ago and more recently. The students sorted the pictures and discussed why they thought the items were old or new. They asked some questions to help them, such as ‘What is it made from?’ and ‘Have I seen one of these before?’.	To understand differences between children toys and clothing in 19 th century and now.
Science	This week we investigated Materials and their ability to change shape - this involved twisting, bending and squashing lots of different materials to understand their properties further.	that materials often change when they are heated to make observations and simple comparisons to construct a table to record observations
Art	We made Victorian paper doll puppets.	Making Victorian thaumatropes and spinning tops.
PSHE	We watched the 5th episode of the Class Dojo ‘Big Ideas’ series and discussed how challenges help us to learn.	We’ll be thinking about being mindful of our thoughts and how we can be present without worrying about what’s happened in the past or what might be happening later on.
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