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Y2 Weekly Update: Week 8 2016

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week, we looked at Poetry again, this time with an emphasis on how adjectives and similes were used. This involves looking at poems about the stars and creating our own poem about a star.	to continue to look at poetry about stars
Math	This week, we revised doubling and halving numbers. We then moved on to find half of a shape and used the fraction ½ to show this. We introduced the fractions ¼ and ⅓ and identified these amounts in shapes. Finally, we used mixed numbers to show whole amounts and fractions, such as 2 ½ slices of bread.	Count in 2s, 5s and 10s to solve multiplication problems and find specified multiples; introduce the × sign; record the 2, 5 and 10 times-tables; investigate multiplications with the same answer; write multiplications to go with arrays, rotate arrays to show they are commutative
Humanities	This week, we introduced our topic ‘Civilisations’ and discussed what the students thought schools and people looked like from a long time ago.	Can understand differences between children, schools and homes in 19 th century and now.
Science	We began our unit on sorting and changing materials. We had a carousel of activities to cover sorting manmade and natural materials, the properties of materials and how materials are used for certain jobs and how they have been altered for their jobs (e.g. painted, polished, carved etc)	that objects made from some materials can be altered by squashing, bending, twisting and stretching to describe ways of making materials or objects change, using appropriate vocabulary to explore materials using appropriate senses and making observations and simple comparisons
Art	We completed our ‘snapshots of spring’ - which involved the children drawing some of the interesting aspects of their half term holiday, such as their favourite memory, something they ate, somewhere they went and so on.	creating Victorian paper dolls
Notices and Events	School photos next week Y2J class and individual photos Monday 7th March 11:30 - 12:00 Y2K class and individual photos Monday 7th March 12:30 - 1:00 Whole school photo - Tuesday 8th March 9 - 10:00 Please ensure that students are dressed in their normal school uniform for these days.

Weekly review and preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Term 2 Week 7

                                                                                                                

	Last Week	This Week
English	We completed activities related to our international day countries and a big write assessment.	our unit on poetry ‘really looking’
Math	This week Year 2 have been learning about rounding 2-digit numbers to the nearest 10. They’ve also been estimating amounts by choosing a range and then counting in 10s to find the exact amount.	Revise doubles and corresponding halves to 15; find half of odd and even numbers to 30; Revise and recognise 1/2s, 1/4s, 1/3s and 2/3s of shapes; place 1/2s on a number line; count in 1/2s and 1/4s; understand and write mixed numbers.
Humanities	We completed activities related to our international day countries.	Year two will be starting a new topic on ‘Civilisations’. We’ll be thinking about differences between the 19th century and now and also constructing some questions to ask grandparents.
Science	We concluded our work on the topic of forces and movement by evaluating the data from our investigation and drawing some simple conclusions.	begin our topic on grouping and changing materials
Art	We completed activities related to our international day countries.	Looking at Victorian fashion by dressing victorian paper dolls.
PSHE	We completed activities related to our international day countries.	Watch the 4th episode of the Class Dojo Big Ideas.
Notices and Events

Learning about Peru

This week, the children have been so enthusiastic with learning about Peru. We began with some simple fact finding activities and then went on to an ambitious art project designing and making golden Inca masks.

Here is an interesting link we explored for learning Quechua, one of the languages in Peru - Link

Class assembly

Dear Parents,

Apologies for the delay, but here are some photos from the class assembly we did recently, the children were fantastic and spoke confidently and with clarity! Everybody was so impressed. Once I figure out how to post the large video file that we recorded of the performance then I will immediately put it on the blog. Many thanks for your understanding with this matter.

Literacy book cover redesign

Last week, we made Julia Donaldson book covers. The children had to include the features of a good book cover while redesigning the front cover of their favourite Julia Donaldson book.

Weekly review and preview

Y2 Weekly Update: Term 2 Week 6

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	We continued our learning about Julia Donaldson and her stories. This week we focused on Julia Donaldson herself and where she got her inspiration and  life story.	International week activities Big write assessments
Math	We began this week by learning about time. We found the time at quarter hours and thought about the time that we do different activities throughout the day. We then moved on to revising numbers by ordering and comparing them. We compared numbers by using the < and > signs and located number on an unmarked number line.	Round 2-digit numbers to nearest 10 Estimate a quantity <100 within a range Complete end of unit assessments
Humanities	This week we found out about ‘The Green School’ in Bali. We watched the virtual tour video of the school and compared their efforts to be ‘green’ with ours.	International Week activities
Science	We had an investigation using toy cars and how the surface of the ground affects how far it will go and how the height of the ramp affects the speed. The children had to ensure that their tests were fairly conducted as well.	to suggest a question to test and predict what will happen to decide what to do and what measurements to take to make measurements and record these in a prepared table to use results to make comparisons and to evaluate whether the test was fair to say whether the prediction was correct and to try to explain the results
Art	This week we rounded off our topic on the environment by making a mobile. We decorated the earth using blue paint and green pasta and then hung ideas for how to ‘save the world’.	International Week activities
PSHE	We watched the 3rd episode of the Class Dojo ‘Big Ideas’ series and discussed the power of ‘yet’.	International Week activities
Notices and Events	Next Friday is International Day. Please send students to school dressed in an outfit from the country their class is studying. Y2J - India Y2K - Peru

Literacy - Julia Donaldson

This week, we began looking at the stories by Julia Donaldson. The children were already very familiar with the Gruffalo, so this was an exciting opportunity to look at her other work. Here the children are completing book reviews on some of her stories.