This week Year 2 have been writing a letter to describe what they would like in an ideal nanny. This has been part of our work on our next text 'Mary Poppins'. It bought together all our grammatical learning and included the use of adjectives, conjunctions, sentence punctuation and contractions. We have also been making chalk pictures outside to bring to life the scene with Bert, the match man. We began a new art module on drawing. The first lesson was exploring using charcoal to make marks. We had a lot of fun and learnt that charcoal is burnt wood and very black! In maths, we have been finishing our learning on multiplication and division, and we have been our new topics in Science and History, focusing on Plants and Schools through the ages. 

This week in English, Year 2 have written their own Seasons poem. They used a range of poetic features that we have learnt, such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, and similes. In maths, we have been learning about the value of each coin and note, how to pay for things, and how to find and give the correct change. In science, we have learnt about the life cycle of a butterfly and researched another animal's life cycle. We have been very lucky to have an enrichment opportunity by having parents come in and talk about Westminster Abbey and computer programming! Thank you to these parents for offering and giving up their time to teach us about their exciting jobs and to enhance our understanding of current topics. 

WOW, what a show. This half term the children have worked extremely hard learning their lines, practising their songs and projecting their voices. But we have also been learning about a new story in literacy called 'How to catch a star' and how to exchange a ten when subtracting 2 digit numbers from 2 digit numbers in maths. We are learning about a Japanese artist called Yakoi Kusama and have planned out our dotted pumpkins that we will be making out of clay. We have also learnt about the four countries that make up the United Kingdom! So it has been a very busy few weeks and the classrooms are feeling very Christmassy! Well done again to all of Year 2 for their FANTASTIC performances. Merry Christmas and A happy New Year to you all from all the Year 2 team.

This week in English, we have been busy learning about verbs and adverbs! We have applied our knowledge to the story of Lost and Found. In science, we have learnt about how to look after our environment by reducing, reusing and recycling. We created a poster in class that will help us remember.  We have started a new geography topic about our world. We have recapped our knowledge of the seven continents and the five oceans. Year 2 has begun rehearsing for our Christmas show! We can't wait for you to see it!

This week we have been very busy and have started lots of new exciting topics. In maths, we have started addition and subtraction. We began by recapping our number bonds to 10. The children worked as a team to match all the different themed numbers to make each set add up to 10. In English, we have started a new book - Stuck. We have been learning about Pie Corbett and putting actions to some of the words while reading. Soon we will use drama to act out and tell the whole story. Maybe they can show you at home. Finally, in computing, we have been learning how to touch type using BBC Dance Mat.

Year 2 have settled amazingly well into school life and the new year group. This week we have begun our new text in literacy "The day the crayons quit" and we have been writing a character description for one of the crayons. In maths we have been revising partitioning and breaking up numbers up to 100 into tens and ones. In history we have begun learning about the Fire of London and looked at the sequence of events that happened over 5 days. In Art we have begin a new module which is a multi media one combining the skills of painting and collage. Finally we have been getting to know our new class room and class teacher. It has been busy but also lots of fun!