If you can dream it, you can do it!
Welcome to Year 2! Your class teacher this year is Miss Mitchell, along with our amazing class teaching assistant Mrs Johnson. Our class name for this school year is ‘Inside the big Top’. This story setting is inspired by the one of our year 2 recommended reads books called ‘Claude at the Circus’. Both Mrs Johnson and I believe that books are the key to unlocking our imaginations and therefore we will explore a wide range of books over the next school term.
We will enjoy various texts to provide us with a purpose for writing in Literacy. This will include ‘Toys in Space’, ‘The Minpins’, ‘Rosie Revere Engineer’ and non-fiction information based on ‘Florence Nightingale’ which coincides perfectly with our history topic all about the Victorian times.
Moving into the summer term we will share the stories ‘The Dragon Machine’ and ‘Houses held up by trees’ before finishing the year with a personal recount ‘all about ourselves’.
In maths we will be cover many chapters over the term which include shapes and their properties, telling the time to 5 minute intervals, fractions of amounts and volume. We will continue to master addition and subtraction which involve renaming and the multiplication and division facts for the 3 times table. We will revisit our knowledge of number bonds to 20, double and halves of numbers up to 20, and consolidate all multiplications/division facts for the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times table.
In guided reading lessons, we will be focussing on reading extracts and then retrieving information from what we have read. We will be using the skill of skimming and scanning to help us to do this as well as a continued focus on using our phonic knowledge to build upon our fluency skills. We will cover a wide range of topic areas in our wider curriculum learning including, Science, PSHE, DT, ICT, RE, Geography, History and Art. We will create our own pinch pots in art using clay, design and create puppets for our DT project.
We will enjoy various texts to provide us with a purpose for writing in Literacy. This will include ‘Toys in Space’, ‘The Minpins’, ‘Rosie Revere Engineer’ and non-fiction information based on ‘Florence Nightingale’ which coincides perfectly with our history topic all about the Victorian times.
Moving into the summer term we will share the stories ‘The Dragon Machine’ and ‘Houses held up by trees’ before finishing the year with a personal recount ‘all about ourselves’.
In maths we will be cover many chapters over the term which include shapes and their properties, telling the time to 5 minute intervals, fractions of amounts and volume. We will continue to master addition and subtraction which involve renaming and the multiplication and division facts for the 3 times table. We will revisit our knowledge of number bonds to 20, double and halves of numbers up to 20, and consolidate all multiplications/division facts for the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times table.
In guided reading lessons, we will be focussing on reading extracts and then retrieving information from what we have read. We will be using the skill of skimming and scanning to help us to do this as well as a continued focus on using our phonic knowledge to build upon our fluency skills. We will cover a wide range of topic areas in our wider curriculum learning including, Science, PSHE, DT, ICT, RE, Geography, History and Art. We will create our own pinch pots in art using clay, design and create puppets for our DT project.
