Year 2 Blogs
Friday 9th May 2025
Spellings –
Spellings being sent home to learn this week are:
little, tickle, cancel, tunnel, animal, equal, April, pupil, child, children
Please practice these in any way that works for your child, ideas have been sent home on a spelling strategy sheet. Keep this sheet safe and use to help learn the spellings each week – we call this our ‘memory lock’.
English – The King who Banned the Dark. How could we persuade him to unban the dark? We thought of lots of really good reasons that the dark was useful for: To sleep so we don’t get tired and grumpy, for special celebrations that involve fireworks or bonfires and how would Santa deliver presents in the dark?
Maths – We continued work on fractions including: quarters, thirds and the whole. They were really good at working out the whole number of sweets when told the fraction!
Music – We are now three bars along Wet and Windy. We are getting more precise in our timing and finger work.
D.T – Today we used cardboard and split pins to create levers and pivots. This was an experiment before designing our very own moving monster. The children really loved this task and decided that thick card was better but if that if we had to use thinner card then shorter strips were more rigid.
Science – We have started the topic – Materials and their properties. We identified the purpose of materials. Then we sorted them according to their properties. Next week we will look at the best fabrics to make a coat. If anyone would like to donate an old coat that we could cut up, that would be very helpful.
PE – Following our Quik Cricket program we tried to bowl under arm. This made the ‘Golden Egg’ game a bit more challenging! To finish, because we are celebrating VE this week, I rolled a large ball across the playground and the children took it in turns to try and hit it with their tennis balls. No-one did. Hitting a moving target was a really hard job for those that tried to defend us from enemy aircraft!
Forest School – VE themed, the children made bottle rocket planes and had lots of fun shooting them up in the air, Mr Simmons set them off and some nearly got stuck in the trees!. Another activity was a clay models, we had gas masks, poppies and tanks.
Thank you to everyone who came to the Tattenhall meeting on Thursday, I have uploaded the Powerpoint into the Year 2 blog area of the website.
Mrs Forrester and Mrs Mitchell
Tattenhall Information
/docs/2025_Year_2_Tattenhall_Residential_Meeting.pptx
Friday 2nd May 2025
Spelling –
Spellings being sent home to learn this week are:
didn’t, don’t, wasn’t, weren’t, fancy, circle, July, reply, beautiful, pretty
Please practice these in any way that works for your child, ideas have been sent home on a spelling strategy sheet. Keep this sheet safe and use to help learn the spellings each week – we call this our ‘memory lock’.
English – The King who Banned the dark.
This week we have been looking at the structure of the example text which is a letter from the King telling the citizens that the dark is banned. The children have written back to the King and told him why they don’t think he should ban the dark. There letters were written in a persuasive style by stating and point and explaining their reasons.
Maths – The children have continued to learn simple fractions by recognising and finding a quarter and half of an amount and a shape.
Music – We have continued to play the notes of b and a. This week we have introduced notes 2 beats long.
Art – We have completed our pictures based on those by the artist Hannah Dunnett by adding phrases from our favourite prayer. Many used our school prayer. Hannah used capital letters anywhere she wanted! We finished by evaluating our pieces of work and looking for ways to improve.
PE – We learnt about under arm throwing and catching, working to improve our aim and checking our partner was ready to receive the ball. We particularly enjoyed the Ghostbusters game.
Forest School – Inspired by pictures sent in by a friend who was a young lad at the end of World War 2 many of us chose to make clay and wooden models of object that would have been commonly seen at the time. There were several tanks and even a gas mask. This is in preparation for a special Forest School next Thursday.
8th May is the 80th anniversary of VE day, there will be a special picnic lunch and VE day activities in forest school that afternoon.
Have a lovely long weekend with the bank holiday. The learning exhibition is on the Tuesday morning when we return, the children are looking forward to sharing their work with you again.
Mrs Forrester and Mrs Mitchell
