Year 2 w/b 13th May
Date: 17th May 2024 @ 4:17pm
We have enjoyed another week of learning in Year Two!
This week, we have been planning and writing a recount of our wonderful trip to Nantwich. It is always interesting to discover what each child considered to be a highlight of the day! Whilst writing our recounts, we have been focusing particularly on making our capital letters, ascenders and descenders clear. We look forward to editing and publishing our recounts next week.
Our first spelling rule this week has been adding the suffix –er and –est. This rule applies for words such as slow, slower and slowest. Our second spelling rule has been words ending in -el. This rule applies for words such as camel, level and cancel.
In maths this week, we have been focussing on our unit 'Time'. We have been focusing on:
- Reading and describing times to the hour and the half hour.
- Describing time using the vocabulary of ‘quarter past’ and ‘quarter to’ when reading an analogue clock.
- Reading an analogue clock by learning to read the five-minute intervals.
Please can I ask you to continue practising o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past at home.
In history, our focus was sources of information: How can we organise sources into different criteria? How can different types of sources be useful for different things? Which sources could tell us how people were feeling at the time of the fire? Which sources tell us about the equipment they used? Which sources would be useful for finding out about what London looked like after the fire? This was also a great opportunity to find out more about Samuel Pepys and his diary – a crucial source of information!
In science this week, we enjoyed our first lesson of our new unit ‘Materials’. We began by sorting different materials and explaining why we have sorted them. We sorted them into the following ways: shiny and dull, transparent and opaque, hard and soft and bendy and not bendy. We are looking forward to being material detectives in next week’s science lesson.
This week in DT, we researched and explored linkages and levers. Using split pins, we made some of our own. This was a great opportunity to experiment with linkages by varying the materials used, the measurements of the levers and altering the width and length of card. We practised cutting the strips to size, creating holes safely using blu tack and creating pivots with split pins. After this, we enjoyed making our monster heads and our join. Next week, we will finish our linkages and add decorations!
We hope you have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you next week to ‘show what we know’.
Miss Roxburgh
