Y2 - Maths Learning - Week Beginning 1st May 2017

This week we have been plugging away at telling the time, writing digital times and calculating with time.  The children are becoming even more confident in reading the time from analogue clocks, many of them using five minute intervals well.  The children have used clocks to move time forwards and backwards by hours, half-hours and quarter-hours.  I have been really impressed at how much work the children are doing at home to support their learning in this area.  Several children have been drawing clocks and Harry DB actually made his own wooden clock with hands - amazing!  To continue learning a
t home you could keep asking your child what the time is, remember to get them to look for the hour first! 

Y2 - Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 1st May

This week we have been looking at how we can alter the setting or detail of a traditional story to make our own versions.  We have read Little Red by Lynn Roberts, this is a version of Little Red Riding hood which has a boy in the main role and the wolf is bribed with fizzy, ginger beer!  Next week we will have a go at writing our own versions of the same story.  At home you could have a go at telling a familiar story but change where it takes place... who knows where it may lead?

Y2 - Home learning - 4th May 2017

Y2 Home Learning – 5^th May 2017

Favourite Animal / Favourite Plant

This week for home learning I would like you to find out some more about your favourite animal and plant.  You could draw a diagram and label it or print out some pictures and write about them.  Try to give some information about your chosen animal or plant and say why you like it.  Please bring your work back to school by Friday 12^th May. 

I have also provided you with an eye-spy sheet.  See how many of these plants and animals you can spot between now and next Friday.

Y2 - Parent's Information Session - 4th May for 8th May

There will be a Parent's Information session to tell you more about this term in year 2 on Monday 8th May at 9am in the school hall.  Please come along and find out more about what we are up to including topics, tests and timetables (and lots of other exciting things not beginning with t). 

Year 2 - Super Scientists - 27th April 2017

This week the children have enjoyed finding out more about the plants and animals that we have in and around the school grounds.  We very much enjoyed hunting for wildlife in the garden with our RSPB visitor on Tuesday and will be going out again on Friday to see what we can spot.  We have also been photographing different types of plants using the ipads.  The children had to look really closely to find things that they wouldn't normally notice.  We have also been looking at how animals have young, some of which don't look anything like their parents!  We have looked at the life cycle of a plant and have set up our own experiment with cress seeds.  We have been observing what happens to the cress seeds that we have placed in different locations around the school and have
been surprised with the results so far!  Perhaps you could try growing some cress at home, if you do the different location test as we have at school remember to keep everything the same except for where you place the pots of seeds.

Year 2 - Maths Learning - Week Beginning 24th April 2017

This week we have been working on telling the time.  The children's

confidence has grown enormously and many are now attempting to read the time to the nearest 5 minutes.  To practice this at home try setting a clock to an o'clock time and then counting the minutes with the minute hand from the 12, counting in 5s around the clock until you get to the correct number.
So for 8:40, set the clock to 8:00 and then with the minute hand at the 12, count in 5s for each section of the clock until you get to 40. 
A couple of finer points to really master telling the time: 
1.  Notice how the hour hand moves between two numbers as the hour passes.  It doesn't stay on one number and suddenly move to the next.  For example at 10:30 the hour hand will be half way between the 10 and the 11.  Challenge:  See if you can tell the time by just looking at the hour hand on a clock!
2.  Be sure to know which hand is which!
3.  Once you have mastered the 5 minute intervals, try the nearest minute.
We have used the template in the picture to make our own clocks.  You can download the template from busythings.co.uk

Year 2 - Literacy Learning - Week Beginning 24th April 2017

This week we have been using traditional stories, particularly Little Red Riding Hood.  We have used the story to look at punctuation, adjectives, ordering events and to give the children an opportunity for drama and storytelling.  The children really enjoyed taking on the roles of the wolf (as grandma) and little red riding hood to act out the scene at grandma's house.  Next week we will be using the same story, changing the settings and characters to make a new version of the story.  We have several versions to read and we will be creating our own red riding hood stories.  At home you could try telling each other a traditional story from memory, or even act one out if you are feeling brave!