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This week has been very busy, with lots of exciting activities for the children to take part in! We have been wrapping up this half term’s topic, and have been so impressed by how much the children have remembered about Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole - and they particularly enjoyed our Kahoot quizzes. They have also been reviewing some of our sentence types in English and have amazed us with their exclamations! In Maths, we have also revised using ten frames and number lines for adding and subtracting. Finally, we have ended the week with a workshop all about how to be a good friend. We have sent all of the children home with a spelling/handwriting booklet and hope that between all the fun activities over half term, they can find some calm time to practise their handwriting and spelling of key words (plus there are some mindfulness colouring pages for when they need a break).
This week we started by exploring World Mental Health day, and talked lots about how to look after our minds, bodies and hearts to be happy and healthy. Across the week we have been learning how to use first-person perspective in our writing, as we imagined we were Florence Nightingale and wrote up our diary. In Maths, we have been adding and subtracting numbers using number lines and ten frames to help us understand how to make bridges across a ten. In History, we earned about Mary Seacole and how she was both similar and different to Florence Nightingale. Finally, we have finished the week by making a material monster, which the children have decorated wonderfully. We were also lucky enough to have a visitor to tell us all about Diwali and let the children dress up and take part in the story he told about the origins of the holiday.
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This week the children have been telling us all about how to use adjectives to describe characters from ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ – “Gerald is a silly, crazy giraffe with long bendy legs.” In Maths they have been reviewing some of the learning from the last few weeks, which includes counting in 2s,3s,5s and 10s, as well as understanding what makes 2 digit numbers and how we can partition them in different ways. In Science we have explored how many materials we can find around the school, and talked about why we use these materials differently. We explored the word significant in History, and drew some images of people we thought were significant to us and the world around us. In Computing we have explored the idea of an algorithm being a way of giving instructions to a computer, and in R.E. we have started to investigate why a church is a special place for Christians. The children have been very settled when moving around the school and going into different classrooms for various Reading, Spelling or Phonics groups, and we hope that you find practising reading and spellings at home with your children is a success.
Year 2 have coped really well through the heat this week and we have been so impressed at their resilience. They have made safari vehicles to end our topic on Sensational Safaris and created amazing dens for Den Building Week.
It has been an absolute pleasure to teach all the children in Year 2 this year and we have been so proud of all of their accomplishments. They have worked hard all year and made fantastic progress.
We wish them all the best for Year 3 and hope that you all have a well deserved, relaxing summer.
Year 2 Team