Welcome to Year 2!

What have we been learning about?

In English this week, we finished our final writing unit of the term! This time, we decided that we should use the theme of Easter so we read the book 'We're going on an egg hunt' and used this as inspiration to begin writing our own Easter egg hunt stories. We planned our stories, making sure to add adjectives for what each egg will look like. We also tried to use additional Year 2 features such as questions and commas in a list in our writing this time.

In Maths, we continued our unit on measuring mass, capacity and temperature. We learnt the difference between volume and capacity, as well as thinking about how we could use different measuring jugs/ beakers to see how much water our bottles could hold.  

For our Big Picture topic this week, we continued art. We are using our knowledge of fossils to create prints with an ink tray and plasticine. We made foam block prints using an ink pad and also used an ink tray to create a mono print. For this, we had to very carefully draw our picture, without letting our hand touch the paper. When we peeled the paper out of the ink tray, our drawing had transferred onto the paper! We also used carbon paper again this week. We traced over an image of a dinosaur and then revealed the carbon paper monoprint underneath!

Finally, in PE we continued to practice our dance for the AHMAT dance extravaganza and kept playing tennis. We used rackets this week and learnt to pass the ball between ourselves and our partner, working on aim and control.

Reading books:

As you are aware, reading books are normally changed on Mondays and Wednesdays. However, for the week commencing 31st March, we will be changing books on Wednesday 2nd only. This is due to staffing requirements on Monday 31st and the dance extravaganza on Thursday 3rd meaning we will not be able to change books on these days. Please ensure your child has their reading folder in school on Wednesday 2nd so they can be given new books to read with you over the Easter holidays. Thank you!

Morning Snacks:

During the morning, children are welcome to have a snack. We always have fresh fruit/ vegetables available for children but if you would rather send your child in with their own snack from home this is absolutely fine. However, may I please request that this is a healthy morning snack as opposed to crisps, chocolate biscuits etc. Thank you for your support!