Welcome to Year 2!

What have we been learning about?

In maths this week we continued our unit on addition and subtraction. We have learnt to exchange when adding and subtraction 2 digit numbers. This was a difficult concept and everyone worked so hard to make their numbers and show when an exchange happened. We have had lots of practice making numbers with Base 10 and this has helped our understanding.

In phonics, we are recapping our understanding of Set 3 sounds- this week we read words containing the sounds 'ew', 'ire', 'ear' and 'ure'. We are trying to use these sounds in our writing and working on recognising letter names as well as sounds. Please leave a note in your child's reading record if you have any questions/ queries about phonics books. Phonics books are changed every Monday and Thursday so please ensure reading records and books are sent in on these days. 

In reading this week we continued to read the book 'Boundless Sky'. We listened to and enjoyed the story, then thought about what we might take on our own journey. We have now read the story a couple of times and started to think about bird migration and why this happens. We linked migration to our prior learning in Geography and Science by discussing climate zones and why birds leave an area during certain seasons.

In writing, we finished off our picture book based on 'We're going on an elf chase'. We used our plans to write the final pages and used lots of brilliant adjectives to describe where the elves are hiding. Whilst writing we have focused on using grammatical features such as capital letters, full stops, conjunctions and adjectives. 

In our topic lessons this week we have continued to learn about Claude Monet. During this art block we have been recreating our own version of Monet's 'Waves Breaking'. We will continue this for a few days next week and will add some photos to the webpage when they are finished so you can see them at home! Thank you once again for sending in an apron/ spare shirt for children to wear whilst they are painting.

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