Category: year2

Year 2 – Crimson & Scarlet

Sequencing, snakes and strategies!

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 …

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Rapunzel, regrouping and relaxing in our PJs!

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 …

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Living or dead?

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 …

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Fabulous learners!

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, …

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Pirate adventure stories

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 …

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Autumn leaves are falling!

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 …

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Message in a bottle!

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 …

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I wrote to the aquarium to send me a….

Together we have re-written Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell to create Dear Aquarium by Year 2. We have thought carefully about the structure of each sentence and used a thesaurus to uplevel our adjective choices. Some of us even used conjunctions to extend our sentences to give reasons i.e. I wrote to the aquarium to …

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Nature Art and more!

Another busy week of learning in Year 2. This week, in English, we have written our very own thank you letters. On Monday we thought about things we are thankful for and why, for example healthy food that helps us to grow or our friends who make us laugh. On Tuesday and Wednesday we wrote …

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Week 2 of Year 2!

That’s week 2 completed and what a great start to the week Crimson class had! They took part in a football skills session with a coach from Tottenham Hotspur football team.  Everyone learnt to dribble and control the ball, which was great fun. Scarlet class are looking forward to taking part in the same workshop …

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