Year 2 – Crimson & Scarlet
Dec 13 2024
Christmas has arrived and it is looking particularly festive in the Year 2 classrooms. To continue with the festive theme, we have started to look at Meerkat Christmas. The children will be using the adventures of Sunny to write diary entries. The children’s writing has got better and better as the week has progressed. In …
Dec 06 2024
This week in English, we have been exploring root words and the -er, -est suffixes in more detail. We learnt rules that involve listening out for long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds in the root word to help us decide if we need to just add the suffix or change something before adding it …
Nov 29 2024
This week, in English, we have been changing parts of the familiar story Rapunzel to create our own version i.e. changing Rapunzel into a snake, the tower into a clock tower and the witch into a wizard. We thought carefully about our sentence structures, adding in adjectives to help create noun phrases. We have been …
Nov 25 2024
Our English lessons have been fun this week as we absorbed ourselves in Bethan Woolvin’s version of Rapunzel. We have designed ‘wanted’ posters to find the evil witch, sequenced the story onto a story mountain, created a visual story map and retold the story by using actions. We feel ready to write our own version …
Nov 15 2024
Today has felt like a very cosy type of day and we have all loved wearing our PJs and lounge wear. Thank you for supporting Children in Need. Fairy Tales is the focus in English for the next three weeks. We have started the unit exploring the original version of Rapunzel as well as reading …
Nov 08 2024
It has been great to see everyone back and eager to learn after the half term break. In Science, we have started the unit Living Things and their Habitats. This week, we identified a specific criteria that allowed us to scientifically identify if something is living, dead or never alive. We now know that for …
Oct 25 2024
Well that’s the first half term of Year 2 complete and what a great half term it has been. The children have been fabulous learners and worked so hard. Thank you for all your support with their learning at home – it makes a big difference. In English, we have started to explore instruction writing, …
Oct 18 2024
In English, we have been writing descriptive stories about pirates! Our stories have really come together and we have produced some amazing writing. Have a look in our English books during soft start if you would like to read them. Ordering and comparing different measures has been our maths focus this week. On Monday we …
Oct 13 2024
Sequencing and planning has been the focus in English this week. Last week we explored what makes up a sentence such as nouns, verbs and adjectives so that this week we could extend that further with more adventurous vocabulary for our pirate story and we’ve even used a thesaurus to help. We are ready to …
Oct 04 2024
Time flies when you’re having fun and it certainly is as we are already over half way through this term! We’ve been as busy as ever and these are some of the things we have been up to this week. In Maths we have been exploring different resources to help understand the value of each …