Welcome to Year 2
s.ramali@longsands.lancsngfl.ac.uk
If you would like to contact me, please do so on the above e-mail address, or see me before or after school.
Homework
Numeracy games should be returned each Wednesday to be changed.
Education city homework will also be also set on WEDNESDAY related to the topics we are covering in class.
Reading folders/ Library books are changed each MONDAY.
Spellings are tested each FRIDAY and new spellings will also be sent home this day. Please make sure you have your home spelling book in school on FRIDAY.
Here's what we will be learning about this half term:
Literacy
Weeks 1 – 3
Different stories by the same author
1. Children can compare similarities and differences and express personal response to a text. Find out more about the author. Draw attention to features of the author's style.
2. Explore characterisation in an author's books by gathering evidence from the text, interpreting information and responding imaginatively through drama activities. Pose and answer questions about particular characters and look for evidence of change during the course of the story.
Discuss and agree on features of the author's style and a favourite to recommend to the class.
3. Use drama and discussion to explore ideas for a new story about a character. Children plan and write their own complete stories, with: consistent use of third person and past tense; descriptions of settings and characters; some dialogue.
Week 4 -6
Information books
4. Investigate non-fiction books/ICT texts on the theme of seaside.
5. Write simple information text about the seaside incorporating labeled pictures and diagrams, charts, and lists as appropriate.
6. Create an alphabetically ordered dictionary or glossary of special interest words.
Numeracy
Weeks 1 – 3
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
1. Recognise and use whole, half and quarter turns, both clockwise and anticlockwise; know that a right angle represents a quarter turn.
2. Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
Add or subtract mentally a one-digit number or a multiple of 10 to or from any two-digit number; use practical and informal written methods to add and subtract two-digit numbers.
3. Read the numbered divisions on a scale, and interpret the divisions between them; use a ruler to draw and measure lines to the nearest centimetre.
Weeks 4 – 6
Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
- Use the symbols + , -, x , ÷ and = to record and interpret number sentences involving all four operations; calculate the value of an unknown in a number sentence.
2. Use the steps to successful problem solving; present solutions to puzzles and problems in an organised way; explain decisions, methods and results in pictorial, spoken or written form.
Find one half, one quarter and three quarters of shapes and sets of objects – extending to smaller fractions as a challenge.
Weeks 1 – 3
Calculating, measuring and understanding shape
1. Recognise and use whole, half and quarter turns, both clockwise and anticlockwise; know that a right angle represents a quarter turn.
2. Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
Add or subtract mentally a one-digit number or a multiple of 10 to or from any two-digit number; use practical and informal written methods to add and subtract two-digit numbers.
3. Read the numbered divisions on a scale, and interpret the divisions between them; use a ruler to draw and measure lines to the nearest centimetre.
Weeks 4 – 6
Securing number facts, relationships and calculating
1. Use the symbols + , -, x , ÷ and = to record and interpret number sentences involving all four operations; calculate the value of an unknown in a number sentence.
2. Use the steps to successful problem solving; present solutions to puzzles and problems in an organised way; explain decisions, methods and results in pictorial, spoken or written form.
Find one half, one quarter and three quarters of shapes and sets of objects – extending to smaller fractions as a challenge.
Topic
The Seaside
We will be comparing where we live to a coastal area.
We will look at wildlife at the seaside in science to find out about variation.
In art, we are going to be looking at the artist Seurat and making our own dot paintings of the seaside landscape.
RE
Christianity - The Church - Pentecost
PE (MONDAY & TUESDAY)
Games:
Striking and fielding games, improving catching, throwing and striking skills, as well as learning about what it means to be in a team.
Please make sure your child has their full and named PE kit in school at all times. No jewellery please.
Miss Robson