Welcome to the Year 2 Class page.
Here you will find the 'Knowledge Organisers' for each subject and weekly updates on the year group's activities!
Week 1
The children have settled back in well after the break! They thoroughly enjoyed playing in the snow at breaktime on Tuesday!
In English they have been looking at portal stories. In these stories the characters go through a magic doorway and find themselves somewhere new! We have been finishing off a story about a girl who shrinks down to the size of a teacup and goes through a fairy door. The children then edited their stories to improve them!
In Maths we have been beginning to look at money. For the time being we have only been working with pence coins, using them to buy things from each other. We also have started to learn to add money together to find a total.
In Art, we have been learning about portraits and beginning to create our own. We have also been talking about being safe online. This half terms focus in Computing is on behaving the same way online that you would in real life.
Week 2
This week we have been continuing money in Maths. We are now using pounds and pence together. Year 2 children always find this hard but we have been using some tactics to make things easier. Look carefully before you start and sort them from biggest to smallest. Always count the pounds first and then the pence. Look at the signs on the coins and notes, be careful not to rush and count pennies as pounds or vice versa. Thank you for joining us for Maths on Tuesday!
In English we have started to learn our new story, The Tunnel. https://burghfield.w-berks.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-tunnel-powerpoint1.pdf
We have been diving deeper into the backgrounds of the place that Rose finds herself in. We have written exciting sentences which bring the setting to life!
In Geography, we have been looking at the British Isles. We learned last week that this is made up of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. This week we dived deeper into Scotland and learned some interesting facts! I wonder if your children can remember any?
In DT, we designed our own 'moving monster.' We made sure to include linkages in our designs so that our monsters will be able to move.
The children loved practising some sea creature themed yoga poses in PE on Friday and, impressed us with their typing skills on the laptops too!
