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Mar 04
100 days of learning!
This year we have been counting up the days we have spent learning in Year 2. Everyday we look together at our chart and add on one more day, using tens and ones, place value cards and digits. Then we think about how the number would look written in numbers, words and as a number …
Mar 03
World Book Day!
Today has been World Book Day and at Merry Hill a love of reading is at the core of everything we do, so today was especially exciting for us. As a school, we dusted off our crowns and tiaras and dived into the royalty theme for the Queen’s Jubilee this year! Lots of us might …
Feb 25
Planting new life!
This week in Year 2 we have continued investigating the life cycle of other living things. We have thought hard about what we already know from Year 1 about the structure of plants, and investigated what the beginning stage of the life cycle of a plant is. We observed some bulbs and seeds and noted …
Feb 24
Smoothies!
This half term in Design and Technology we are learning about, designing and making our own rainforest smoothies. We started our topic by talking about the smoothies we like to drink and the ingredients we have seen in smoothies before. Then we thought about different smoothie brands that are seen in the shops. We visited …
Feb 10
Safer Internet Day
On Tuesday we celebrated Safer Internet Day. We came together in the morning for an assembly about Safer Internet Day. We talked about what it meant to be online and the things we like to do online. Then we discussed why it was important to be kind online. In the afternoon we continued learning about …
Feb 10
Dragons!
Over the last week in English we have been learning about ‘explanations’. We learnt that an explanation is when you tell someone why or how something happens. We were quite surprised when our teachers first introduced our learning by telling us that a dragon had visited our classrooms whilst we had been eating our lunch. …
Feb 04
The Cycle of Life!
For the last two weeks in Year two we have been studying the life cycle of living things and their offspring. We were overcome with excitement when we were given the chance to bring in our own baby photos for this and had a fantastic time at guessing who was who in the photos based …
Jan 28
Mental maths
This week in Year 2 we have been building on our knowledge of adding and subtracting. We have been learning lots of new strategies to help us when working with one and two digit numbers mentally. This has made us think hard about the place value of a number. First, we practised our multiples of …
Jan 28
The Great Kapok Tree
Over the last 3 weeks in English we have been learning to write stories. We started by learning a story called The Great Kapok Tree off by heart. We used a story map and made up our own actions to help us. We thought it was a great story and really enjoyed listening to and …
Jan 21
Mindful Monday
This half term in Art we are learning about Andy Goldsworthy. We have been looking carefully at his work and discovered that he is known for making sculptures using natural materials. Last week we spent some time looking at pictures of his work and discussing what they were made from and our opinions of his …