Friday, 27th September 2024
The children in Year 2 this week, carried on their Place Value learning by extending their range of models for representation and used part whole models to flexibly regroup numbers within 100. They also spent time learning how to write numbers in words as well as numerals whilst consolidating their understanding of the value of each digit within a 2 digit number.
In English, the children created noun phrases by adding adjectives to selected nouns to describe their own aliens, inspired by our class book, Aliens Love Underpants. They later sequenced the events of this story using picture prompts before creating their own story maps for retelling.
In RE, the children looked at Biblical metaphors and using items from Creation, they tried to explain how these help us understand God.First they looked at flowers to explain how God, just like a flower, makes us feel happy and gives us beauty and joy. They also lifted hard rocks to show how God is strong and how He can form a solid foundation for our Catholic life. Later in the week, the children came up with their own metaphors for God and compared him to animals to explain their understanding of His qualities.
In Science, the class reflected on the needs of the third vertebrate group, Fish whilst in History they used primary and secondary sources to prove Historical events around the Moon Landing. They reasoned in groups to reflect on how some sources are less trustworthy than others before finding clues left around the classroom to prove statements about men’s first mission to the Moon.
In PE, we moved onto skipping as yet another fundamental skill and played team games, whilst in Computing the children looked at the big question: What is IT? and after gaining some basic understanding about devices and networks, they learnt about its use to support public places such as schools, libraries and hospitals.
In Ten Ten we listened to the Gospel story when Jesus called all the children to him; reflecting on our special gifts and gaining understanding on what it means to be called.
Thank you for all of you who dropped in collections of leaves, conkers, pine cones and other treasures. We are still in need of them so if you have the means to collect more, please keep sending them into class.
I hope you have a lovely weekend,
Ms Varga
| Home Learning | Due back on Wednesday, 2nd October 2024 |
| Phonics/Spelling | Please practice these words, all revising learnt phonics rules:
shout, cloud, firm, girl, boy, annoy, argue, statue, flies, fried Please see the attached sheet modeling the letter formation: |
| English | Please practice retelling our class story , Aliens Love Underpants, using our story map. This will support the children’s writing on Monday.
Aliens love underpants but there are no underpants in Space. They go into their fast rockets and fly to Earth so they can land in your back garden. Aliens steal underpants from the washing line and play with them. They love pants in orange, red and green. Mum comes out to get the pants back from the washing line so the aliens jump into their rockets and go back to Space. Check your pants to see if any aliens are hiding! |
| Maths | Please log into your Mathletics account and complete the assigned activities all consolidating Place value within 100. |
