Year 2
Welcome to Year 2!
English and Reading
Autumn 1: Flat Stanley and The Little Shoemaker
Autumn 2: Lost and Found and Can a penguin ride a bike?
Spring 1: The twits
Spring 2: Stone Age Boy
Summer 1: Deep, dark wood
Summer 2: Little people, big dreams series
Maths
Autumn 1: Place value and multiplication facts
Autumn 2: Addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, place value and statistics
Spring 1: Multiplication and division, shape, measure
Spring 2: Measure, money, time intervals, positional language, multiplication and division
Summer 1: Addition and subtraction
Summer 2: Teaching misconceptions
Exploration
Autumn 1: The Seven Continents
Autumn 2: Explorer
Spring 1: Europe
Spring 2: Pre-historic Britain
Summer 1: Weather
Summer 2: Women who changed the world
Science
Autumn 1: Materials
Autumn 2: Changing shape
Spring 1: Growing plants
Spring 2: Habitats
Summer 1: Living things
Summer 2: Feeding and exercising
RE
Autumn 1: God and Diwali
Autumn 2: Incarnation
Spring 1: Creation
Spring 2: Salvation
Summer 1: Gospel
Summer 1: Charity and Ramadan & Eid-Ul-Fit
Homework
Spring project
Our next topic is pre-historic Britain!
-Make a model of a weapon
-Create a timeline showing the stone age, bronze age, iron age and ice age
-Write a set of instructions explaining how to light as fire and explain what a fire was useful for
Each week you will receive:
Spelling detective sheet
Fact family of the week sheet
Purple mash activity sent to your 'To dos'
You will also have the opportunity to change your home reader once a week which you should be reading at home every week.
Planners need to be signed by parents every week.
Each half term holiday, you will have an optional project to complete, to be given in during the first week back after each holiday. They can be presented in any way you wish: writing, artwork, presentations, models - the sky's the limit!
They are as follows:
October half term: Find out and present about an explorer of your choice.
Useful websites:
www.purplemash.com/stb-b24 - children have a purple mash login
www.ttrockstars.com - children have a TTRS login
Spring 2
In Maths this half-term Year 2 will be looking at Statistics including tally charts, pictograms and bar diagrams. We will also go on to look at both 2D and 3D shape..
In English we will be studying a visual text called, “Marshmallows.” This can be found at www.literacyshed.com/marshmallows
Our RE topic will be Salvation and we will be answering the Big Question, “Why does Easter matter to Christians?”
Our Exploration topic will be Life in Africa.
Our Science topic will be Changing Shape.
Here are links to some useful websites.
https://www.purplemash.com/login/
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
http://www.ictgames.com/
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
http://freerice.com/
Optional homework will be sent home on Friday 2nd March 2018.