In Year 2 children are closing a busy Spring term celebrating their achievements and hard work. We are very proud of the effort they make and thankful to all parents who support them day by day.
English
This half term children explored list poems and a ‘beat the baddie’ story about Rapunzel. In our Hook lesson children built Rapunzel’s tower. We role played the different characters of the story to help children imagine how a certain character can behave and why.
They practised writing extended noun phrases, fronted adverbials, possessive apostrophes, conjunctions as well as similes, rhymes, comparatives and superlatives. Children are getting really confident at writing complex sentences and at editing their own work to make improvements.
Maths
Children immersed themselves in multiplication and division. In Year 2 we are focusing on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables, we use different strategies like skip counting or repeated addition. To divide, we can group, share or skip count. Our TT Rockstar competition runs weekly. Please, encourage your child to play at home. We also learnt measuring length, height, mass, volume and temperature.
Science
In Science children have learnt about microhabitats like pond, grass, wooden logs, etc. and their features. We talked about what habitat is suitable for worms – an animal that all children are familiar with. Children found out how animals can adapt to extreme habitats like the Arctic areas or the Sahara. At last we learnt how energy is transferred through a food chain from some kind of plant as a producer through preys to the top of the food chain where the predator can be found. We made our own food chains.
Gardening at Wigmore!
In Yew class we have been busy tending our garden. We dug up the soil, raked it, planted some spring onions and have been watering them since. We love our garden and we can’t wait to see our vegetables to grow. Poplar class is growing carrots, Rowan class is growing tomatoes.
Geography
In Geography we travelled around the world – all continents and oceans. Children researched what climate, animals or places different continents have and why. We learnt how the climate can change in relation to the Equator, the further we are from the Equator the colder it gets. Children used maps, atlases, globes and digital mapping to locate places and they really became experts on how to read maps as well as locating features on blank maps.
DT
A very exciting half term for DT, children have made delicious, healthy snacks and sold them. We explored hygiene, safety and food preparation as well as the importance of healthy food. Selling their own produce made children really excited, they worked with enthusiasm following instructions carefully to produce appealing, scrumptious fruit cakes, salads and kebabs. Thank you to all other year groups who purchased our food and for their positive feedbacks too. Children are super thrilled to decide how to spend the profit they made.
Reading
Children had a superb day on World Book Day.
Credit to all mums and dads for the amazing costumes!!!
which was about a man in the moon who was looking for a friend, which he found in the most unexpected place. The children wrote their own ending, describing what the new friends did together.
This was impressionist art based on the work of Monet. The children had to create a sunset picture.
This was based on pointillism and the work of Georges Seurat. The children created their pictures using varying sizes of dots.
This was inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian, which uses lines and blocks of colour to create art work.
