Year 2 - Fir Class
Welcome to year 2!
Curriculum Overview
Y2 Common Exception Words
Chocolate Making
As part of our ‘Chocolate’ topic, we made our own chocolate bars. We loved tasting, melting (with adult support), decorating and designing the wrappers for our amazing chocolate bars.
Art’s week-Instruments
Science-Planting
Practical Maths-Time
Today, we made clocks using 60 blocks (to represent the minutes in an hour). We then added the hands and labelled the clocks.
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History-Debating. Was Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain?
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Hero or villain?
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Testing Materials
As part of our ‘Materials’ unit in Science, we created ‘waterproof’ buildings using our scientific knowledge.
Science- Identifying humanly constructed and natural materials.
Making fossils based on the work of Mary Anning.
Book Week-Potato Book Characters
The children worked so hard this afternoon to create a potato book character. Can you guess who they are?
Alien Sock Puppets
In English, the children designed an alien that Bob might meet on the moon. The children worked so hard to cut, stick and fix parts to their socks to create the aliens. The final results were amazing!
History-Tudor Dancing
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Tudor Dancing
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Father Christmas
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Christmas Art
Nativity
Trip to Brockholes Nature Reserve
The children had a wonderful time at Brockholes Nature Reserve. They made dens using the materials around them, experimented safely with firefighting, bug hunted and then finished the day off with a toasted marshmallow around the campfire.
Theatre trip-Around the World in 80 Days.
History-Houses and Homes
Today, we explored how people used to wash their clothes a long time ago. We used the dolly tub and carbolic soap to scrub and rinse the clothes. The children loved this but most stated they preferred having a washing machine!
Stories based on ‘Dear Greenpeace’.
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Stories based on ‘Dear Greenpeace’.
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Stories based on ‘Dear Greenpeace’.
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Poetry
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Sign of the week
As part of our inclusive classroom we are learning signs to support all learners. Please feel free to practice these at home.
Science-Hatching chicks
Finding features of a non-fiction text.
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Today, we looked through a selection of non-fiction texts to find key features.
Practical Maths
We were counting in 2’s today. We counted the blocks and then used our quiet and loud voices to help us find the patterns.
Practical maths-Counting in 3’s
Music-Glockenspiels
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We experimented with the glockenspiel’s in today’s music lesson. We had to listen very carefully and learnt how to play the notes G A G.