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Year 2 News 24.11.23
English This week in English we have continued with our story ‘Follow the Swallow’ by Julia Donaldson. We have practised writing from the character’s point of view and have written a postcard. The children thought of excellent ideas and put together their postcards well. Here are a few examples: Next week we will be Read More
Read newsYear 2 News 17.11.23
English This week in English we enjoyed reading ‘Follow the Swallow’ by Julia Donaldson. It is a really lovely story which introduces two main characters, a swallow and a blackbird; they learn about each other and what they do throughout the seasons. We have listened to the story and given our opinions, creating a Read More
Read newsYear 2 News 10.11.23
English This week in English we have been reading and writing poems about fireworks. Children have written their first acrostic poem using the letters for firework. They were brilliant! Children used lots of right choice verbs and adjectives to describe fireworks. We introduced alliteration. Spelling Oh u lucky duck! Use this to support learning Read More
Read newsYear 2 News 27.10.23
English This week in English we have been focussing on developing our own veggie characters. We have written some brilliant character descriptions focussing on using right choice adjectives to describe the character’s personalities and appearance. We added extra detail about their super powers too. Spelling This week we have been focussing on all the Read More
Read newsA ‘Super’ Week- 20.10.23
English This week in English we have written a review of the story Supertato. Children used the answers they rehearsed to record their views. We then moved on to describing the character ‘Supertato’. Children developed vocabulary to describe his personality and what he looks like. We then learned how to write expanded noun phrases Read More
Read newsYear 2 News 13.10.23
English This week we have been writing our own versions of The Little Red Hen. The children used their plans from last week to introduce their characters and setting. The children were able to use the same structure to make their stories similar but adding their own details. Yesterday, we started our new class Read More
Read newsYear 2 News 6.10.23
English In English this week, we have read the story of ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’. In this alternative version of the little red hen story, Mr Wolf wants to make pancakes but his unhelpful neighbours are very rude and refuse to help him. We enjoyed the twist at the end! We talked lots about the Read More
Read newsYear 2 News 29.09.23
English This week we have been retelling the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’. Children have acted it out in groups and looked at adding detail to a simple version. We have focussed on using adjectives and conjunctions. Can your child retell the story for you at home? Spellings We have been learning how Read More
Read newsKeeping Healthy in Year 2
English This week in English, we put our instruction giving skills to the test as we helped Mrs Barker and Mrs Wilson to make a healthy sandwich. We quickly realised, when the teachers had butter spread on their hands and lettuce on their heads, that our instructions needed to be clear and precise! We then Read More
Read newsFruity Fun in Year 2!
We have had a busy week in year 2 starting with a trip to the farm on Monday to harvest some fruits. We then tasted the fruits and used our senses to collect words and phrases to describe them. We wrote some fantastic concrete poems. Tasting…… Our poems! Maths In maths this week we Read More
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