Weekly review and preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Term 2 Week 5

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	We have been looking closely at the different stories by famous author, Julia Donaldson. The children are already very familiar with the story ‘The Gruffalo’ and we have been looking at other stories by Julia Donaldson by comparing and reviewing them.	Continuing to look at the different stories by Julia Donaldson.
Maths	This week we’ve learnt a lot about 3D shapes. We’ve focused on cubes, cuboids, square based pyramids, cylinders and cones. We have investigated their faces, edges and vertices and even found real life objects that are 3D shapes such as a toilet roll tubes is a cylinder and a dice is a cube.	Tell the time to the quarter hour on analogue and digital clocks. Order 2–digit numbers and revise the symbols < and > Locate 2-digit numbers on a 0–100 landmarked line and on a 100-square
Humanities	This week we took a walk around the school to investigate how ‘green’ Ascot is. We looked for examples of reducing, reusing and recycling and also discussed where improvements could be made, such as turning the lights off when a room is not in use.	To learn the features of a green school.
Science	We continued learning about forces and how forces can change the speed and direction of an object. This included a carousel of activities on the swings, using balls and ramps.	to suggest questions about ways in which different objects move to make measurements of distance using standard or nonstandard units to decide whether their comparison was fair
Art	This week we recycled old materials into new toys. We made cars from toilet rolls, a skipping rope from plastic bags, a rain shaker from toilet rolls and a cup and ball game from yoghurt pots.	To express ways of caring for the world through art.
PSHE	We watched the 2nd episode of the Class Dojo ‘Big Ideas’ series and discussed how we can learn from mistakes.	Watch the 3rd episode of the Class Dojo Big Ideas.
Notices and Events

Trip to Grandpa's city garden

We also had our trip to Grandpa's city garden, the children enjoyed their adventure and were excited to be somewhere unique and to learn about plants and being more eco-friendly.

Art - recycled bird feeders

Last week, we continued using recyclable materials to produce new objects and we once again used plastic bottles to make bird feeders. This was a paired exercise so the children had to show teamwork to create some fine looking bird feeders.

Weekly review and preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Term 2 Week 4

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week we were finishing off explanation texts and also writing a recount of our trip to Grandpa’s city garden.	looking at stories from the same author
Maths	This week we continued finding the difference between two 2-digit numbers. We also used our bonds to 10 to add on to the next multiple of 10. Using this, we set up a shop in the classroom and had money to buy stationary objects. Some students were the shopkeepers and had to use their bonds to give the right amount of change.	Recognise and identify properties (including faces and vertices) of 3D shapes; sort according to properties including number of faces; name the 2D shapes of faces of 3D shapes; tell the time to the nearest quarter on analogue and digital clocks
Humanities	On the trip we learnt about how to live  sustainably by growing our own food, using renewable energy sources and composting food waste.	To identify examples of reducing, reusing and recycling around the school.
Science	We recapped our knowledge of push and pull forces and applied this to investigate which objects could we bend, twist, stretch and squash.	that pushes or pulls can make things speed up or slow down or change direction to explain how to make familiar objects move faster or slower
Art	We used bottles to make bird feeders and decorated them with tissue paper using papier mache.	To use recycled items to produce new toys.
PSHE	We watched the 1st episode of the Class Dojo ‘Big Ideas’ series and discussed how we can challenge our brains.	Watch the 2nd episode of the Class Dojo Big Ideas.
Notices and Events

Reminder about trip tomorrow

Dear Parents,

Please be reminded that your children require the following for tomorrow's trip to Grandpa's city garden:
1 PE shirts and shorts (leggings if cold)
2 Jumper or Jacket (if the weather is still cold)
3 water flask with strap

Also depending on the traffic we may depart school earlier at 8:30

Many thanks

Karel Linden

Ascot Idol 2016

Literacy - explanation texts - flow chart writing

This week we continued our good work on explanation texts by looking at flow charts and how they work. We considered how the information was organised and ordered and the groups had to create their very own flow charts.