Weekly Review and Preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Term 2 Week 3

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	We began looking at the parts of a story and using a story mountain to assist with this. First the students had to discuss familiar stories and match the events to the relevant section on the story mountain. We also had a close look at adjectives used in familiar stories and why.	We will plan a story using a story mountain format and begin to write some really epic stories.
Math	This week we used the column method of adding to add 2-digit numbers. We started by adding two 2-digit numbers without regrouping and then we moved on to adding 1 and 2-digit numbers with regrouping. We understand that regrouping is necessary if the sum of two digits is greater than 10. We can carry over the 10s digit and add it to the other digits in the 10s column.	Measure weight using standard or uniform non-standard units; draw a block graph where one square represents two units; weigh items using 100g weights using scales marked in multiples of 1kg or 100g; measure capacity using uniform non-standard units; measure capacity in litres and in multiples of 100ml.
Inquiry	This week we began an in depth look at how a product is made. The class were put into groups and had to find information about their given product and represent this on a poster.	Next week we will be ‘going further’ - the students will have to decide the next step of their inquiry and which aspects they would like to focus on.
Art	This week we continued our work on aeroplanes - this ranged from including more practise at drawing aeroplanes with the correct perspective and also making other aeroplane art.	We’ll continue our aeroplane project by creating more aeroplane art.
Notices and Events	Letters confirming students for the science fair were given out Friday - the date for the Science fair is 13th May