Year 2 – Miss Hayes

 Welcome to class 2H!

My name is Miss Hayes and I have been a primary school teacher for 8 years. I have a 10-year-old Schnauzer called Schwartz who is always causing mischief. You will hear stories and see lots of pictures of him. I absolutely love football and spend my weekends watching the best team in the world… Liverpool FC! If our class has worked hard in all of their morning lessons, we listen to our favourite songs whilst we complete our afternoon work.

Autumn

Welcome to our class page and I hope you are ready for an action packed half term. Please find below some useful links that you can use to help consolidate skills and knowledge needed in Year 2:

• Hit the Button – https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
• Karate Kats KS1 Maths – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf4sscw
• Small Town Superheroes KS1 English – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zncgvk7
• Karate Kats KS1 English – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdp4pg8

 Maths

Place Value:

• Partition two-digit numbers into tens and ones
• Write numbers to 100 in words
• Plot numbers to 100 on a number line
• Count in 2s, 5s and 10s

 Addition and Subtraction:

• Bonds to 10, 20 and 100
• Fact families
• Add and subtract 1s
• Add and subtract across a ten
• Two-digit addition and subtraction

 Shape:

• Recognise 2D and 3D shapes
• Count sides and vertices on 2D shapes
• Count faces and edges on 3D shapes
• Symmetry

 To help your child at home, a focus would be consolidating number bonds from Year 1 which can be done through playing the online game “Hit the Button”, practising writing two-digit numbers ensuring the tens come first and completing addition and subtractions where a 1-digit number is added or subtracted from a 2-digit number such as 14 + 3, 18 – 5, 27 + 5, 31 – 3 etc.

 Year 2 English

To begin the half term, our writing sessions will be based on the book “Six Dinner Sid”. The children will be re-telling the story and then writing non-chronological reports about various animals linking to our science topic.

We will also be looking at a variety of poems such as “Solomon Grundy, “30 Days Hath September” and “Monday’s Child”.

To help your child at home, a focus would be writing simple sentences ensuring there is a capital letter at the beginning and a full stop at the end.

Reading

Each child will take part in 4 x 1 hour reading sessions per week where they will explore texts appropriate for their current reading ability and work on developing decoding and comprehension skills.

Afternoon Sessions

History – Explorers

This half term we will be learning about different explorers from around the world with a focus on Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong. There will be geography links throughout the topic such as revisiting the world’s continents and oceans.

 Science – Living Things and their Habitats

Our science topic this half term focuses on identifying the criteria something needs to have to be classed as a living thing, the different habitats animals live in and the three main animal diets: herbivore, carnivore and omnivore.

 Computing – IT Around Us

Our computing unit this half term has an initial focus on IT in the home and we then move on to explore how IT benefits society in places such as shops, libraries, and hospitals. We examine the responsible use of technology, and how to make smart choices when using it.

RE – Christianity

As part of our RE learning, we will be exploring Christianity focusing on the Creation Story, 10 Commandments and the beliefs and values held by Christians.

 Art – Drawing

We will be focussing on developing our sketching techniques and create a final sketching piece inspired by Stephen Wiltshire using a mixture of sketching pencils and graphite sticks.

 PE Days

Our PE days are Thursday and Friday.

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