Year 2 w/b 17th October
Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 3:47pm
What a super first half term we have all had! It has been an absolute pleasure to teach in Year Two.
We started our week in English, where we have been writing our instructions explaining how to build a habitat for our own unusual creature. The Save Our Bog Babies Society will be delighted to receive these instructions! The children spent two days writing their instructions and then a further two days editing and publishing their writing. The children are very proud of their truly excellent writing and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading them. We have loved our text ‘The Bog Baby’ but I am excited to begin a new journey with a new story after the break.
Our PE session allowed us to demonstrate all of the skills that we have mastered in gymnastics. The children’s balances, turns, twists, spins and rolls have improved immensely over the half-term and it was lovely to see them working hard to complete each skill ‘like a gymnast’. We are all very much looking forward to ‘Ball games’ in PE next half term.
In science this week, we were all very excited to share our food diaries and tally off the food we had eaten into the appropriate food group box: fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates, protein, dairy and fats. We then discussed what is meant by eating ‘healthily’ and recapped that we should eat more of the foods that are at the bottom of the food pyramid and less of the food that is at the top. Later on, we completed a class survey surrounding our favourite foods. Unsurprisingly, chocolate cake won with 12 votes! Finally, we inserted this information into a block graph into our books.
In maths we have been: using their knowledge of number bonds to learn complements of 100; 10 + 90, 20 + 80, 30 + 70, and so on, adding and subtracting 1s to or from a 2-digit number without exchanging, using number bonds to help them and adding two single-digit numbers that total more than 10, by breaking one number into two parts to bridge the 10.
In Collective worship, we have focused on pumpkins of hope in preparation for today’s finale. We have been amazed by all the effort and creativity that have produced such wonderful carved pumpkins reflecting hope. As the school gathered it was an incredible spectacle to observe the pumpkin lit messages. Year Two really enjoyed taking part in creating a ‘paper chain of hope’ activity back in class to demonstrate their hopes for our world.
It was lovely to talk to you all this week during parent consultations to share the fantastic progress that the children are making. I hope that you enjoy a restful break and I shall look forward to seeing everyone again on Monday 31st October.
Miss Roxburgh
