Year 2 w/b 4th September
Date: 8th Sep 2023 @ 4:26pm
What a wonderful first week we have had in Year Two! On Tuesday, we first enjoyed sharing news from the summer holiday. It was a pleasure to hear all about the wonderful time that the children have shared with their families. We then became detectives to complete a classroom scavenger hunt.
For our first piece of writing, we have each written a letter to Mrs Knott and Mrs Pulle, thanking them for being such fantastic Year One teachers. The children have written about their favourite memories from Year One, shared news from their summer holidays, and have suggested some top tips for the new Year One class.
The children have been very curious about our new English display. They noticed objects such as a boat, binoculars, cars, farm animals and jungle animals. In our discussion, we asked: What are they? How are they connected? Do they link in any way? What are these links? Who owns them? Where might you see objects/animals like this? Are they all from the same place? How do these objects relate to the boat? Does it remind you of any stories you know? In what ways? We also looked at five illustrations from our new book, asking: What do you notice about this place? Is it a nice place to live? Why? Does it look like our school? What is different? What is the same? What do you notice about the river? Can you see any people? What time of the day might it be? How do you know? Following this discussion, we worked in groups to list any questions we had about these five illustrations, hoping to answer them when we were able to read our new book. On Thursday, the title and front cover were revealed…A River by Marc Martin. As we studied the front cover, we considered the following questions: What animals may be hidden? How would you roam around this place? How would you feel? How would you react to the things you are able to see? What might you see, hear and feel? After gathering ideas, we were able to write a senses list poem. This learning continued in forest School where we participated in some exciting but tricky ‘river games.’
In maths this week we have started our first unit ‘Numbers to 100.’ We have been learning how to:
- Count up to 20 and back down again, read and write numerals and partition 2-digit numbers into 10 and some 1s. We also compared numbers as greater or less on a number line.
- Count in multiples of 10 up to 100, using a variety of representations to support fluency and understanding. We have learned, for example, that 5 tens make 50, 7 tens make 70, and 90 is made up of 9 tens.
We have started our new unit ‘Down to the woods’ in music this week. First, we sang one of our favourite songs ’10,000 reasons’ and after this we learned the rules of a new game called ‘Guess the instrument’. Finally, we ended the lesson by learning the words to a new song called ‘When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears.’ We are very much looking forward to learning some more of this song next week. What wonderful musicians we have in Year Two!
On Friday afternoon I welcomed children to ‘Miss Roxburgh’s Restaurant’ for an exclusive book tasting! The children tried a starter, main course and dessert of books. They were then able to fill in their menu, which involved: identifying the title and author of the book; identifying the genre; giving the book a star rating; writing their opinion of the book after ‘tasting’ it; and collecting any interesting vocabulary from the book.
Have a lovely weekend! If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask via email, Dojo or through a note in reading diaries.
Miss Roxburgh
