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May 23
Year 2 science and computing!
In Science recently we have been thinking about habitats and what that means . We learnt a simple definition as part of our Word Aware program – ‘A habitat is a place where an animal or plant lives‘. We have been doing a lot of work understanding why different species of animal live in different …
May 16
Art
Our Artist this term is Edgar Degas whose main focus in his paintings are people and figures. So, we started the term with a whole class follow along to sketching a person’s figure. We had to use our light sketching lines and think about the proportions of the body parts. Lots of us found it funny when our teacher drew …
May 09
Maths in Year 2!
This week in Maths, Year 2 have been very busy learning to multiply by 5, following learning how to multiply by 2s and 10s. The children have been excited to learn the mathematical terms ‘factor’ and ‘product’ and to know that multiplication is ‘commutative’ which means you can multiply the factors in any order and …
May 02
Explain, Explain, Explanations!
For the last two weeks, year two have been working really hard learning how to write explanation texts in English. An explanation text is a piece of writing that explains how to do something. We began our unit of learning like every other English unit, with a cold task. This is when we complete a …
Apr 26
Purple Up Day in Year 2!
April is the month of the military child and we are glad to have some children whose parents are in the Armed Forces within our community here at Merry Hill Infant School. Today we learnt a bit more about what it means to be part of a military family. We started our day by …