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Nov 23
Design Technology in Year 2!
This half term Giraffes and Bears have been excited to design, explore and build structures working toward building our own Tudor house, linking to our work in History on the Great Fire of London. We started by thinking about what a structure is:‘something that has been built(the parts joined in an ordered and structured way’. …
Nov 16
Science – materials
This week in Year 2, we begun our science lesson with the word absorbent. We discussed its meaning using our Word Aware strategies at Merry Hill. First, we said the word, next we clapped the syllables in the word, then we discussed its meaning, and finally we rapped the word! We especially enjoyed that last …
Nov 09
Remembrance in Year 2
As part of our History Curriculum at Merry Hill, we have been thinking in depth about Remembrance. In particular Year 2 have been focusing on the following two questions: 1)Who and what do we remember on Poppy day?2) What can we learn about the past from our local war memorial? We started our week by …
Nov 02
Counting on and back in 10s
This week we have been focusing on counting on and back in multiples of 10. We started by orally rehearsing our multiples of 10 which went very well, so we new we were ready for a challenge. First, we learnt a very important fact: When we add 10 the ones stay the same and the …
Oct 19
Poetry in Year 2!
In English our focus over the last two weeks has been poetry. First we read ‘At the Zoo’ by William Makepeace Thackery (1811-1863). We recited this together with our teachers and noticed how at the end of each line was a comma. At the Zoo First I saw the white bear, then I saw the …
Oct 12
Art – Moulding our clay pots
This half term we have been learning about the English ceramic artist Clarice Cliff. We have loved studying her designs, she loved bold colours and used lots of shapes in her work. We used her ideas to recreate our own designs in our sketch book, using paint and pastels. We have also enjoyed using these …
Oct 05
Scientific Enquiry in Year 2
This term we have been learning about keeping healthy. We started by thinking about the need for humans to eat a balanced diet and what that looks like. The children created their own ‘eat well plates’ showing meals with the advised amount of carbohydrate, protein, fruit and vegetables, dairy and oil/fat/sugar. Next the children thought …
Sep 21
Maths
This week in Maths we have been thinking about some different strategies to help us with our number fluency to twenty. We have thought about how to use part-part-whole to regroup the same number in different ways, for example 10+2=12 and 11+1=12. We enjoyed showing off all the different ways! Most recently, we have begun …
Sep 15
Funnybones
This week in English we have been reading ‘Funnybones’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We looked carefully at the front cover and tried hard to predict what might happen next at different points in the story. We learnt about labels – what they are and why they are important. We used the Word Aware approach …
Sep 14
Pumpkin Soup
This week we have been working hard to learn the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ by heart. We worked together in our classes to draw a story map and decide on actions to help us with our retelling. We have discussed the main characters and written sentences about them, remembering our capital letters at the start and …