Year 2 w/b 15th April
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 3:42pm
We have all thoroughly enjoyed our first week back in school after the Easter holidays.
On Monday morning when we returned from breaktime, our classroom was dark and there was a sign on the door stating ‘Light is Banned Here!’; we were intrigued! After an interesting discussion around darkness, we worked as a class to create a list of adjectives to convey how darkness can make us feel. Next, we explored the fascinating objects around the English working wall: a torch, a house and a castle. As a class, we discussed and debated how these objects may relate to our story and connect to each other. This helped us to predict what the story would be about and justify our thinking. At last, the title and front cover of the Vehicle Text were revealed…’The King Who Banned the Dark’ by Emily Haworth-Booth. Reading the blurb helped us to alter and expand on our original predictions. We enjoyed a thorough exploration of the story and the illustrations, constantly making inferences and discussing the effect on the reader. Later in the week, we identified narrative features (adverbials of time, adjectives, exclamation sentences, question sentences, adverbs and conjunctions) in our model text and talked about their purpose. We are looking forward to planning and writing our own banning narratives next week.
Our spelling rule this week has been adding the suffix -ed. This rule applies for words such as clapped, hugged and jumped. Our second spelling rule has been the ‘ee’ sound spelt ‘ey’. This rule applies for words such as donkey, turkey and money.
In maths this week, we have been finishing off our unit on ‘Mass, capacity and temperature’. We have been focusing on:
- What litres are and how to carry out a variety of calculations using litres.
- Reading temperatures from a thermometer and using temperature to make simple comparisons and to carry out calculations. For example, comparing the temperature in Aberdeen (9 degrees) to York (11 degrees).
- Applying knowledge of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to read different scales on thermometers.
On Friday, we started our new unit ‘Fractions’. We have been focusing on the difference between a whole and a part in different contexts. For example, the United Kingdom is the whole and England is a part.
We all thoroughly enjoyed our first history lesson of the summer term. Our focus was to understand the events of the Great Fire of London. We were all shocked to discover that the devastating fire had started by Thomas Farriner in a bakery! It was interesting to learn that much of what we know about these events has been learnt from the diary of Samuel Pepys. To demonstrate our understanding of these events, we were able to sequence them chronologically in the form of a timeline.
In science this week, we started the lesson by having a look at the habitat survey we completed outside in the playground with Miss Latham before the Easter holidays. As a class, we completed a pictogram graph using data from one habitat. After this, we discussed how we could record data with a larger numerical range and decided that one pictogram could be worth two, five or ten minibeasts.
In PE this week, we enjoyed our first lesson of ‘Athletics’ with Mr McAulay. We are looking forward to our next lesson on Monday.
I hope you all have a fantastic weekend.
Miss Roxburgh
