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Year 2 - Primrose Class

Welcome to Year 2 - Primrose Class!

Who are the staff in Primrose Class?

What are we learning about in term 3?

Moon Zoom

CRASH! What’s that in the playground? Let’s go outside and take a look. Stand back everyone – it looks like a UFO has crash landed. Find out who might have landed by exploring the craft and investigating scattered scientific specimens. Create a ‘Welcome to Earth’ box for an alien explorer. What can you put in it to help explain what life is like on our planet? Would you like to be an astronaut? You’ll need a pretty sturdy spacecraft if you do. Start off small by making an air-propelled rocket. How far can you make it travel? Find out the names of the planets. There’s Mercury, Neptune, Mars and – do you know any others? I’ve forgotten the rest. Then, an alien is found. Can you help get him home? It’s got the experts in a right kerfuffle. Professor Pong doesn’t know what to do. Are you ready for take off Year 1? Hold tight. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… LIFT OFF!

What did we learn about in term 2?

Splendid Skies

What a great term for learning about the weather, we experienced so many different types of weather. We found lots of signs of Autumn and frequently had to empty the rain gauge because there was so much rain. We will have to check the rain gauges we made when we get back after the holiday. We made fantastic cloud art pictures, using the work of Berndnaut Smilde as inspiration. We looked at the globes and discussed why the countries near to the Equator are hottest.

Nature's Treasure Trail

What did we learn about in term 1?

Wriggle and Crawl

We went on a minibeast hunt and found lots of different creatures, we even found a newt in the pond. We brought our minibeasts back to class to sketch before setting them free. We found out how different creatures protect themselves from predators and looked at the life cycles of different minibeasts. We even made computer animations of the different life cycles. We added special effects and sound to our animations - you can see them below.

Elephant Table.MOV

Lion Table.MOV

Orangutan Table.MOV

Panda Table.MOV

Tiger Table.MOV

What does our curriculum look like?

In Year Two we have selected six topics that we hope will captivate the children’s interests. Through cross-curricular teaching we will cover different areas of the curriculum in an exciting and engaging way. We begin a topic with something to hook the children in, this is called the “engage” stage. The children then “develop” their learning before presenting what they have been learning. This provides the children a context to share their work and we refer to this as the “express” stage. At the end of some topics we would like to invite you into school to showcase the children’s learning. This will also be an opportunity for you to see the children’s classroom and books.

These are the topics we will be covering this year:

Wriggle and Crawl

Splendid Skies

Moon Zoom

Dinosaur Planet

Paws, Claws and Whiskers

Movers and Shakers

English Resources

Additional and ongoing home learning includes:

Maths

Maths challenges and activities will be set for the children to complete on My Maths later in the academic year. If you need a reminder about your child’s log in details please come and see us.

Please help your child to learn pairs of numbers that make 10 so that they can quickly be recalled. Then do the same for pairs of numbers to make 20. This work underpins much of our maths work in class. Consequently it is very important that this is constantly revisited and practised throughout the year.

Addition and subtraction of small numbers can be practised and reinforced by playing simple board games such as Snakes and Ladders using two or even three dice. Card games such as Pontoon or ‘Making 21’ also work well to support addition and counting on skills.

Also, please practise counting forward in jumps of 2, 5 and 10 to help learn the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Then try counting back in jumps of 2, 5 and 10. Then do the same for the 3 and 4 times tables.

Reading

Please listen to your child read at home as much as possible and comment in their home reading records when you do so.

Please continue to read and enjoy lots of additional texts with your child. Reading and listening to a variety of different text types are so important not only to support your child’s reading development but also their writing development.

Please see additional information regarding supporting your child with their reading skills, particulalry comprehension, in the section further down the page.

Spelling

The spelling lists document (attached below) includes a list of words for each week. These are words that we will practise reading and spelling during the week at school. You may wish to help your children to practise spelling these words at home .These are words that the children need to be able to spell as part of the Year 2 spelling curriculum.