Welcome to Year 2 page
Our teachers are Mrs Koursaros and Mrs Martin
This term we will be learning lots of stuff.
In Year 2 we have been learning and exploring symmetry. Here is some of the fun we had. It was very interesting and made our brains think! We have really enjoyed the work and activities.
We painted half the paper and folded it over to make a symmetrical butterfly picture.
This is my symmetrical butterfly painting. I like making symmetrical towers.
I made a symmetrical tower. I enjoyed it.Here we are making symmetrical ‘primso’ designs.
We made a big symmetrical pattern. It all our own idea.
Fun with paint! We made some symmetrical wands.
I made this symmetrical spaceship out of Lego.
We liked working together.
We made symmetrical statues outside. Here is our symmetrical statue.
It was fun! We really enjoyed it. This is our symmetrical statue.
It was fun working together. We enjoyed showing our ideas.
We made this.
This is my symmetrical model.
I made this out of Multilink.
I made this decorative flower.
I made a symmetrical cube. We enjoyed working together.
I made these two flowers. Here is my flowers and the sun.
Year 2 AUTUMN 2008
English
Year 2 AUTUMN 2008
Develop awareness of words that join sentences
Develop awareness of full stops, commas, exclamation mark
Use capital letters in names, headings and titles
Develop work on handwriting and spelling patterns
Work on literacy hour/ big books
Develop reading skills using phonics and context
skills, and discussion of plot.
Write instructions and make lists
ICT
Use I.T. to write simple sentences using correct punctuation
Learn how to use backspace, return and shift keys
Change font style and size.
Generate pictures on an art package moods and feelings contrasting speed,
.
Maths
Count to 100 in 10s Count in 100s and 2s and 5s
Addition and subtraction of tens and units
Fractions - halves
Investigations
Revise number bonds to 20 through mental strategies
Place value to 100/999
Multiplication and division facts 2, 5 and 10
Venn diagrams
Science
To produce a stand-up model
Sound, light and electricity
Sound sources, instruments, light and dark.
Electrical circuits
R.E. – New Beginnings
Life and value: truth, honesty, forgiveness
Childhood of Jesus
Images of Jesus
Christmas/festivals
Welsh
Colours – Building simple sentences
Christmas and toys
Numbers and shapes
History
Compare similarities and differences between different schools
Look at the ways which schools have changed and appreciate
aspects of the way people lived in the past
Famous people and events
Gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes
Florence Nightingale
Louise Braille
Music
Listen to qualities of sound
pitch, pace, and organise
sounds.
Compose simple rhythms on
Instruments
Class songs
Learn and recite simple poems
P.E
Explore and develop throwing and catching skills
Work co-operatively in competitive situations.
Devise simple games
Use movement to express i.e. shape, direction and level
Develop the awareness of the weight of the body and different bases of support.
Devise and create sequence alone and with a partner
Art
Symmetry
3D 2D shape and symmetry
Colour and tone
Artist - Guiseppe Arcimboldo
D.T
Incorporating a light as a Christmas decoration.
Geography
Map work – grid reference
The countries of the British Isles.
English Geography
To read aloud with expression and reference to Develop mapping skills including
punctuation especially speech marks. compass points, letter/number
Extend prediction within stories co-ordinates.
Re-read own writing – begin to edit their own work Follow a route on a map.
Increase grammatical accuracy including awareness Use large scale maps to locate own
of tenses. position and features outside
Creative writing focus- full stops classroom.
Develop spelling patterns
Compound works and syllables
Writing extended sentences Music
Using capital letters correctly. Listen to sounds and rhythms and
Practise handwriting patterns clap them.
Use dictionaries Select and organise sounds and
Increase sight word knowledge in reading instruments.
Begin to use prefixes un, dis Select and organise suitable sounds
Read and write poetry to accompany a story.
Using ? correctly.
Maths P.E.
Revise number bonds to 100, 100+ Develop body activities using
Multiplication and division movement to express different moods.
Mental calculation strategies, Explore and develop speed, tension
two step sums and levels
Data handling, block graphics and tables Develop understanding of repeated
Solving problems rhythms
Money £ and over Welsh Folk dancing
Standard measures
Length, capacity
Digital time Art
Angle Improve illustrations
Half/Quarter double Look and talk about others’ work, by
looking at models of transport in
Science relation to their own work.
Recognise different plants that live in the environment Use clay to experiment with shape,
Name some common plants. form and space.
know that plants need both light and water for growth
Be able to recognise and name the major parts of the plant D and T
Know that flowering plants grow and produce seeds which Learn that there is a wide variety of
in turn, produce new plants. fruit and vegetables available.
Learn basic food handling technique
I.T. and food preparation technique.
Know that ICT can be used to create pictures Make a salad using vegetables/fruit
Using a computer graphics package, using word.
R.E. – Spring 1
Welsh Use of prayer/hymn books in church.
House and family Use of the Bible in readings during services
. Symbolism in the church.
History How the church extends its care into the
Different types of transport in the community.
past. Spring 2
Sort evidence chronologically Festivals/celebrations of importance – how
Sources of evidence we take part as Christians around the world.
Lent as a preparation time for Easter.