Weekly News

Welcome back to the Summer term!

We started the week by planning our leaflets for the Sainsbury Centre. The children looked at real-life leaflets to decide what features they should include. The planned space for headings, a map, pictures, prices, opening times, etc. Later in the week, we wrote persuasive paragraphs about what you can do at the Sainsbury Centre, the shop and the café. On Friday, we used our planning to make the leaflets. These have been photocopied and sent to the Sainsbury Centre for them to, hopefully, use.

In maths this week, we learnt about how to read scales. We looked at real-life scales on car speedometers, measuring jugs, rulers, weighing scales, etc. The children looked closely to see what steps the scales were counting in (1s, 2s, 5s, 10s) and had to work out the missing number. Later in the term, we will be applying this skill by reading thermometers.

During the afternoons, we have been designing, making and evaluating sock puppets. The children have had lots of fun and we are very impressed with how much their real puppet looks like their design!

Sock Puppets

 Our Power of Reading story has a character called 'Claude' whose best friend is a sock called 'Sir Bobbly Sock'. 

This week we have been busy  making our own  sock friends (puppets). 

First, we designed our puppets and thought about the materials we would need.

Next, we cut out all the shapes and collected all the things we needed (buttons, pom-poms, wool, felt, etc.)

 Then, we worked with a grown-up to glue the pieces in the right place.

After that, we tried out our sock puppets.

Finally, we evaluated our creations by thinking about what went well and what we would do differently next time.

They really are rather amazing!! 

Sainsbury Centre Trip

We have had a lovely day at the Sainsbury Centre!

To begin, the children were 'Gallery Detectives' and had to find out as much information out about the building, what it was and what it had inside. 

Next, they completed sketching activities. This included doing a continuous line drawing, sketching small, sketching like scientists and sketching from memory. 

After lunch, we went outside and explored the outdoor sculptures.

We also had a fun time playing outside in the sunshine.

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This week, in English, we have written our newspaper reports about the ‘great sculpture robbery’ that took place in the art gallery of our book ‘Claude in the City’. The children wrote a headline, drew a picture with a caption and included lots of real facts and quotes from local people. We have used the opportunity to discuss the features of non-fiction texts.

In the afternoons, we have been busy completing Easter and spring craft activities. The children really enjoyed making their bouncing chicks and chocolate Easter nests in baskets.

On Thursday, we had a wonderful time on our school trip. The children found out lots of information about the Sainsbury Centre and completed some sketching activities. After Easter, we will be continuing our work on non-fiction by making leaflets/guidebooks for the Sainsbury Centre using the information we collected.

We have had our final practise of our ‘special booklets’ (SATs) ready for May and we are pleased with the progress that the children have made. Over the Easter holidays, please continue to hear you child read little and often, and, if you have time, complete a few maths problems with them (all 4 operations). However, and most importantly, we really hope you all have a relaxing Easter filled with exciting activates.

From,

Year 2 Team

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This week has been a super busy week!

Firstly, we would like to thank you for your support with our Maths Café and our Assembly. We hope you enjoyed learning about how your child solves maths problems and learnt a little bit about our Power of Reading story from our assembly.

In English this week, we found out that a robber stole a sculpture from an art gallery in our book ‘Claude in City’. We made wanted posters using suffixes, for example harmless, colourful, quickly, shiniest, cleverest and sneakiest. Later in the week we held a press conference with children in role as the Robber, Security Guard, Museum Manager, Mayor and Police Chief. The children wrote questions to ask at the conference. We have begun looking at the features at newspapers ready to write a newspaper report about the incident next week.

In Maths, we have been practising our multiplication skills and learning about the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. We used the same 4 numbers to write four numbers sentences, for example 5 x 2 = 10, 2 x 5 = 10, 10 ÷ 5 = 2 and 10 ÷ 2 = 5.

In Science, we learnt about fingerprints and how the police use these to identify criminals. We scribbled with a pencil, pressed our finger on top, then put our finger onto the sticky side of a piece of sellotape, and once this was stuck onto white paper, you could see the fingerprint clearly. We used magnifying glasses to observe and find similarities and differences.

We will be having a spelling test next week. We will be picking 10 words from the last 4 weeks of spelling sheets. Please practise with your children ready for Thursday 4th. 

Maths cafe

Today we had our Year 2 Maths Cafe.

We began by letting the children be the experts. They taught their parents how to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They used different methods including; chips and peas, arrays and groups.

After this, we made multiplication flowers. The children chose a times table that they felt they needed more practise with. These can now be used at home.

Thank you to our wonderful parents for their support. :)

Weekly news – 22.3.19

This week at school we have had a go at writing our own free verse poem based on the work that we did Friday around the city and the things that we could see, hear smell and touch.  We have learnt about writing and sending an email through Claude and Sir Bobblysocks adventure in the city.  We went into role as Claude and wrote an email to Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes.  After carefully editing these we then practised typing these up on the computer.

In maths this week we have been practising our subtraction using ‘chips and peas’ and then went on to read word problems to decide which of the operations we should use, addition, subtraction, division or multiplication.

For our topic sessions this week we went outside and created a sound map by drawing ourselves in the middle, closing our eyes and listening carefully to the sounds around us.  We then drew these onto a map with a key.  In Geography this week we drew a map of the city that Claude explores and thought carefully about the shops that he went to.  We drew these on with a key.  For history this week we have learnt about shops in the past and present.