Year 2 w/b 31st October
Date: 4th Nov 2022 @ 1:33pm
It has been great to welcome the children back to school for another half-term in Year Two.
Our week began with a shocking discovery when we returned from breaktime to find that Miss Roxburgh’s jewels had been stolen! We noticed that the culprits had left behind some clues. We spotted some green slime splattered by the treasure chest, Miss Roxburgh had felt a gust of wind and there was paper scattered all over the floor. These clues helped us to make predictions about the baddies who had stolen the jewels, using ‘because’ to explain our thinking. Thankfully, Mrs Sant looked on the CCTV and eventually identified the baddies as the troublesome two, Filth and Vacuum. On Thursday, we read the first section of our story, ‘Send for a Superhero’. After that, we focused on adding the suffixes -ful and -less to create adjectives. We discovered that, for most words, the suffix is added with no change to the root word. However, if the root word ends in ‘y’ we needed to change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ before adding the suffix. The children then used these adjectives (e.g. powerful, helpful, fearless) in some sentences to describe their superhero. We are very much looking forward to finishing our new book next week!
In PSHE this week, we read the story ‘The First Slodge’ by Jeanne Willis and discussed the important meaning behind it. This book places an emphasis on sharing and how the world belongs to all that inhabit it. The First Slodge's selfish use of the word 'my' is later replaced for the word 'our' after she realises that all other creatures, including the Second Slodge, are equally important and that sharing is required to make everybody happy. The ending features a variety of different creatures who occupy the world together. Next, we had lots of pictures of delicious food and children were able to share this food and offer it to someone else if they gave an example of how they are different. For example ‘I have brown, you have blonde hair, we can still share’. Finally, around a picture of a globe, children recorded people that they share the world with.
In PE this week, we started our exciting new unit ‘ball games’ with multiflex. We began the lesson with an energetic warm up where we focussed on changing directions. We then played the game ‘cats and mice’ followed by running from one end of the playground to the other trying to dodge balls that were thrown in our path. The children absolutely loved this lesson and are really looking forward to our next lesson on Wednesday.
At the start of the week in maths, we looked at adding three numbers presented in a variety of ways, including concrete and pictorial representations. Children then selected the most appropriate resource to help them and rearranged the numbers to add efficiently. We then learned to add from a 2-digit number to the next multiple of 10 and then added 2-digit and 1-digit numbers together, with the focus on bridging 10. They represented this using ten frames and jumps on a number line.
In science, we have been discussing what a human needs to be healthy, why we warm up and what exactly we are warming up. We then looked at various photographs of athletes such as: Christiano Ronaldo, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Andy Murray and discussed what type of foods from our food pyramid they would need to eat to give them energy to perform. After this, we took part in a range of physical activities such as: skipping, jogging on the spot, star jumps and side steps and discussed what part of the body we were exercising and how we felt afterwards. Finally, as a class we discussed what part of the body it was exercising and how we felt afterwards.
Later in the week, we began our history learning for this half term where we will be focusing on children in Victorian times. As a hook for this unit, we first explored some Victorian artefacts and predicted what they may have been used for. This helped us to recognise that we do not only learn about history from the internet or books, artefacts are a great source of information! We then moved on to studying artefacts from Victorian schools, matching them up to their present-day equivalent and thinking about what they may have been used for.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask via email, Dojo or through a note in reading diaries.
I hope that you have a wonderful weekend.
Miss Roxburgh
