Humanities - Island planning

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Last week, we took the first step of creating our own islands. The children had to rely on all their knowledge of islands to plan the island that they will make.

Weekly review & Preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 5 2015

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week, we have begun to create our very own comic books, using the superheroes and villains that we have designed.	We will finish off our comic books by including speech bubbles and sound words and have a lengthy review of our friend’s work too.
Maths	We have been using our number bonds to 10 and 20 to help us answer bigger sums. We have also began learning how to bridge 10 when adding.	Identify 2D shapes Recognise, name and describe squares, rectangles, circles and triangles Sort 2D shapes by number of sides and corners (incl. right angles) using Venn diagrams
Humanities	We have compared an island locality with a city locality and used our senses to think about what we might hear, see, feel and smell in each place.	Using papier mache to construct our island models.
Science	Our main learning objective was to understand the importance of exercise and to observe what happens to our bodies after exercise. This include some activities such as dancing and star jumps which the children enjoyed greatly.	That animals (including humans) produce young and these grow into children and new adults.
Art	We finished our treasure maps by tea staining them, ripping them around the edges and crumpling them.	Constructing an island model.
PSHE	We learnt about Eid Al-Adha.	New beginnings PSHE scheme.
Notices and Events	Healthy snacks - please ensure your child has healthy snacks for during school hours as we are actively trying to promote healthy eating across the Primary. Snacks such as cookies and crisps can be consumed after school hours such as at home time.

Literacy - Superhero origins

As a warm up to our work on how our superheroes became super, we played a matching game where we had to read an origin story and match it to the famous superhero.

Island transport

This week we used our teamwork skills to decide what modes of transport we would use on an island for certain trips. Discussion and teamwork formed a very important part of this activity.

Weekly review and preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 4 2015

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	We began our topic on comic books and looked in depth at one of the key features of comic books - Superheroes! The children designed their very own superhero including an origin story to prepare for next week’s work.	to create our own comic books
Maths	We've been learning about number bonds to 20 and doubling numbers to 20. We found out that doubling is simply adding a number to itself. If a number has 2 digits, we can double the 10's number first and then the 1's number.	Place value in 2 digit numbers Add 1-digit to 2-digit numbers, bridging 10 and using known facts Subtract 1-digit from 2-digit numbers including 2-digit multiples of 10 by counting back Use inverse relationship between addition and subtraction to solve missing number problems
Humanities	we continued our work on islands.	To use 4 senses (see, hear, smell & feel) to compare an island location with a city location.
Science	We continued looking at the food we eat in terms of diet. The children had to consider what food are healthy and unhealthy and what it means to have a balanced diet.	that we need exercise to stay healthy to make and record observations and to make simple comparisons
Art	We have created our very treasure maps - ensuring that all the key features of islands are present, as well as some of the fun fictional features. We’ve even tea stained them to make them look old!	Plan and design our island models.
PSHE	New beginnings PSHE scheme.	new beginnings PSHE scheme.
Notices and Events	Next week is the Muslim holiday, Eid Al-Adha. We'll be learning about about the celebration to develop our understanding of other cultures.

Weekly review/preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Week 3 2015

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	We’ve been planning our own story with a familiar setting by creating our own characters and setting and planning using a storyboard with pictures and sentences.	continuing our work on stories with a familiar settings with a focus on superheroes!
Math	We’ve been practicing our mental recall of addition facts to 10 and beginning to understand that addition can be done in any order (1+9=10 & 9+1=10). We’ve also found out that addition and subtraction are inverse operations and that subtraction can be used to solve missing number addition problems.	Recall number facts to 20; number pairs (4 to 20) and bonds to 10 and 20 Begin to write word problems Double numbers to 20, including partitioning teen numbers, and find related halves
Humanities	We’ve been thinking about different modes of transport and found out about the three main routes of travel: by land, air and sea. We’ve considered appropriate methods of transport on small islands and how we’d get between places of interest.	continuing our good work on Islands
Science	We’ve learnt about the 5 food groups and carried out a survey to find our favourite foods in each group.	That sometimes we eat a lot of some foods and not very much of others
Art	We drew our friends faces using the model we learnt last week. We looked at the shape of their faces so that we could use the appropriate proportions.	To design a fantasy island treasure map including features such as ‘x marks the spot’.
PSHE	We are learning about how our classroom and school is a community. We already know our friends quite well but we played a game called ‘Hedgehogs’ to see if we could identify the ‘hidden’ person.	new beginnings PSHE scheme
Notices and Events

Literacy - stories with familiar settings

This week we continued our good work on stories with familiar settings - one task was to discuss other familiar settings and in a group create a mind map of ideas. The teamwork demonstrated by all was very encouraging.