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Y2 Weekly Update: Week 11 2016

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	We continued with our non-chronological reports in literacy this week. They’re almost finished, we just have to add the finishing touches such as adding pictures.	End of term reading and writing assessments.
Math	This week we revisited multiplication and arrays. We also introduced the 3 and 4 times tables and used arrays to solve them. We found out that multiplication and division are inverse operations and began to write division sums.	End of term maths assessments.
Humanities	This week we looked at Victorian clothes. We identified ways in which they are different from how we dress now and discussed the differences between clothes for the rich and poor.	To understand differences between school in 19th century and now.
Science	Last week we were investigating what a fair test is and investigating ice cubes and how they vary when melting in different locations.	End of unit review
Art	This week’s art lesson was used to design the front cover of our non-chronological report books from literacy.	Songkran art.
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Y2 Weekly Update: Week 10 2016

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week we began our work on non-chronological reports. The children were tasked with identifying the features and to plan their own non-chronological report which they will begin next week.	Continue working on non-chronological reports.
Math	This week in maths we recapped quarter hours on the clock and then moved on to units of time. We learnt about the 12 months in the year and practiced an easy way to remember how many days each month. We also related units of time such as saying 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week.	Revise 2, 5 and 10 times-tables; revise arrays and hops on the number line; multiply by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10; arrange objects into arrays and write the corresponding multiplications; make links between grouping and multiplication to begin to show division; write divisions as multiplications with holes in and use the ÷ sign
Humanities	This week we looked at pictures of toys from the 19th and early 20th centuries and thought about how they might be similar or different to toys nowadays.	To understand differences between clothing for the rich and poor in 19th century and now.
Science	We continued our exploration of materials and this week involved looking at materials and what happens when they are exposed to heat. This involved melting cheese, chocolate and other fun items.	to explore melting ice using appropriate senses to use their knowledge about what makes ice melt to plan what to do
Art	We made thaumatropes, toys with pictures on each side which merge together when spun between the hands.	To design the front cover of our non-chronological report.
PSHE
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Humanities - looking at toys from a long time ago

We continued our inquiry into life a long time ago by having an in depth look at toys. This children had to look at photos of old toys and comment on certain aspects of the toys - for example, how was it used? What can we say about the materials required to build it? and so on.

Literacy - features of non chronological reports

This week we began looking at non-chronological reports and their features. The children had to sort through three jumbled up reports and to sort them according to what a report should look like.

Literacy - grouped work on constellations

Following on from our poetry work about stars - the students had a chance to create their own constellation and make a collaborative story.

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Y2 Weekly Update: Week 9 2016

                                                                                                                

	This Week	Next Week
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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Science

Last week we began our new topic - changing and grouping materials. We began with a carousel of activities each designed to help look at materials from different perspectives.