Year 2 Update Week 4
- Monday 24th September – CPD Day – BHS closed.
- Tuesday 25th September – Public Holiday – BHS closed.
- Thursday 27th September – Year 2 trip to Penfold Park. Please ensure you have completed the permission form via the Gateway.
- Monday 1st October – Public Holiday – BHS closed.
- Tuesday 9th October & Thursday 11th October – Parent Consultation evenings.
- Friday 12th October – Dress Casual Day (Community Chest). Last day of half term. School finishes 3pm.
- Monday 22nd October – School resumes.
| PE Kit | Library Bags | |
| 2D | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday | Thursday |
| 2F | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday | Thursday |
| 2K | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday | Wednesday |
The children have been designing and creating fitness bands to hold their Micro:Bit tracker. They have used a variety of different materials and equipment to make these.
The children have continued learning about a balanced diet and finding evidence in non-fiction books to support their thinking.
The children have been applying their learning in the playground by eating healthy snacks and by getting plenty of exercise.
What kind of snacks did 2K bring in on Thursday? We made a graph to find out. We will try again sometime next week to see if we are making healthier choices.
The children have been comparing numbers using the language of greater and less than.
Central idea:
Lifestyle choices can affect human health and well-being
Lines of inquiry:
- What it means to have a balanced lifestyle (causation)
- The choices we make that affect our health and well-being (reflection)
- Lifestyle changes (change)
The children will be looking at ways people make unbalanced lifestyle choices and what they could do to improve this. They will also be looking at their own lifestyle choices. The children will be practising their exercise routines and trying out their new fitness tracker bands.
Place Value
Central Idea: We represent numbers and number relationships using the place value system
An inquiry into:
- Ways to represent numbers
- How we count numbers
- The Base Ten place value system
- Odd and even numbers (pattern and function)
The children will be working towards the following outcomes:
- Count by naming numbers in sequences, to and back from 999, moving from any starting point
- Recognise, model, read, write and order three digit numbers
- Apply place value to partition and rename, numbers to three digit numbers
- Skip count by 2s, 5s and 10s starting from zero
- Round numbers to the nearest 10
- Estimate up to 20 objects
- Identify and describe patterns in odd and even numbers
The children will be continuing to take part in problem-solving challenges to develop their understanding of place value in the real world. They will also be looking at pictographs linked to healthy lifestyles.
The children have their Mathletics usernames and password in the front of their school diary. Please spend some time on it each week.
Writing focus: Writing to instruct
Text Type:
Writers choose words, punctuation and words for a purpose.
Related Language Concepts: imperative verbs, tense, capital letters and full stops.
The children will continue to discuss the language of instructional writing. They will be considering the steps they used to make their fitness bands and will write a corresponding set of instructions.
In reading, the focus is self-monitoring and summarising. The children will be asked to show their understanding that it is their job to make sense of the texts they are reading and learning more about the strategies to use if they get stuck. They will be using SCOOP to help them retell the stories they have read.
- Learn the first list of 8 words.
- In their spelling book, they will need to write each word in a sentence. One has been done already as an example.
- Complete one activity from the boxes to help them learn their spelling. This does not need to be seen by the teacher.
- Please sign the bottom of spelling card to show that they have done these things.
