Ask us how to make 10! Year 2 have been practising and exploring their number bonds to 10 this morning with a carousel of activities from 'Hit the Button' to big ten frames to 'tower building' and the dice game! Ask us all about it!
What a lovely afternoon we had playing some of the wonderful games we have in our school! From memory games to Jenga block towers, we showed our collaboration and resilience whilst playing different games with our peers! Year 2 cannot wait for next week when we will be learning how to play some board games as well!
In maths, we are learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. Today we did different activities to practice counting in tens. We counted 10p coins to find a total amount. We took handfuls of counters and added them up to find the total. We used paint dabbers to create groups of ten and then counted how many groups we made. We had fun putting pine cones in groups of ten, and even counting how many bugs were hiding inside them!
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As part of our topic Homes and Habitats, we investigated food chains. We learnt some new vocabulary to help us identify the producers and consumers in food chains of various environments.
We did some outdoor learning...
Year 2 have started to read Meerkat Mail this week and are loving learning about meerkats! As we are going to be writing our own non-chronological reports in the form of a fact file this term, we have started to research facts about meerkats to use this week! Why not ask us if we can share our growing knowledge with you? After all, we are now the meerkat experts!
Our amazing Year 2s voted for their Junior Leadership Team representatives yesterday afternoon, discussing links to democracy again whilst choosing classmates to help share ideas and make positive changes across the school. To all those not elected, we loved seeing you all show such amazing resilience and supporting your peers with kindness! Congratulations to our new reps!
Year 2 have been working on some incredible storyboards and narrative retelling this week! We have even started to explore using a purple pen to edit. Tomorrow, we take on the challenge of being a teacher and checking and revising ourselves! What fun!
We have started to compare objects and 1 and 2-digit numbers up to 100 this week! We know to check the tens column first before looking at the ones. To practise comparing different numbers, we collaborated with talk partners, each building different numbers and then deciding together which symbol we would use! Why not test us?
Attached are this week's spellings.
Today, we read the rest of our wonderful first core text of the year, 'The Snail and the Whale'. We then reordered the key events of the story into chronological order using time connectives such as ‘first’, ‘then’ and ‘after that’ to order each section of the story. In small groups, we acted out the key events of the story, and had a choice to narrate the story or act it out as each of the characters. This was lots of fun, and we were able to use our great drama skills to retell our narrative. Ask us all about it!