Year 2 Archive

We started the day by looking at different European flags, identifying the colours and talking about some of the places that we, or our families have visited in Europe.

In the afternoon all of Year Two got together to learn some Dutch. Mrs Dunton had brought in some clogs, tulips and some traditional Dutch foods to talk about. We looked through the PowerPoint and listened to Mrs Dunton explaining it in Dutch.

We learnt a traditional Dutch rhyme about the King through which we could practice the colours red, white and blue in Dutch!

Here is our powerpoint if you would like to practice or have a look at home (it will open as a PDF) All about Holland

Welcome back after a fantastic Easter Break.

We hope you’ve had some quality time with your families and eaten all the Easter eggs already!

This term we are learning about the Stone Age, our literacy will be linked to the story of the Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson and we have some exciting activities in store linked to our topic.

Here is our curriculum overview for this term:

Curriculum Overview Term 5 2024

Each term in maths we give you some key learning facts, these are facts that the children need to practice regularly at home to help them become instantly recalled. Through regular practice these facts are then retained and act as building blocks for further number work which we do in class.

KIRFS

Animals

This term Year 2 have been learning about animals and what they need to survive.

We had great fun making bird feeders to see which birds we could spot in our outdoor areas at school.

What birds can you identify as you walk to and from school, or in different environments at the weekends?

This term we have thoroughly immersed ourselves in our Stone Age topic. We have looked at Cave art, the types of houses from the different periods of the Stone Age and learnt about the settlement at Skara Brae.

We have some examples of Owl’s Cave Art paintings here, we used charcoal for a more authentic experience.

In DT we have been learning about sewing, we have designed and made our own pouches, we learnt how the Stone Age people were believed to have had a food pouch made from leather, and their inventions of needles from bones.

Here are some examples of Eagle classes Stone Age Pouches:

During this week we worked on our observational, sketching and collage skills.

The whole school looked at architecture as our theme for this year, while in Year Two we focused on Doors.

We began the week by going for a walk around New Romney to look at all of the different styles of doors we could find. The Children took photos of them, then it was back to school to sketch the different doors we had seen. We moved on to looking at artists, especially Henri Matisse and his approach to art. We created some artwork using his methods, looking at techniques, colours and shapes.

Our final piece was a door each, where the children used materials they’d collected at home and at school to recreate one of the doors we found on our walk.

The children did a fantastic job and we can’t wait to share them properly in a gallery format later in the term!

Today we welcomed Scott from Wild Cooking to our school to teach us about how Stone Age people would have cooked their food.

We began by learning how to build a fire using a Jenga style set up, we started the fire using a flint and steel, but talked about how challenging using just flint would have been all those years ago.

We prepared Sea Bass, Trout, Venison and vegetable kebabs whilst learning how to create wooden skewers from oak branches. We learnt how to cook the fish in one way, and then using bricks to create a base for our skewers.

Some recounts from the children about their experiences:

In Science this term we have been learning about life cycles.

We have had the opportunities to meet some lambs and tadpoles and are eagerly awaiting our caterpillars/butterflies.

Here are some photos from our lamb visit.

And some examples of our life cycles of a frog

To start this term we have been reading and delving into the gorgeous story of the Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson.

We began our term by looking at some garden snails, we watched how they moved and researched by watching videos and reading books. The children all had the chance to make their own snails and many children had collected shells over the half term break so we could study those to see which was closest to the shape of the tiny sea snail in the story.

Our learning so far has looked at describing settings, working collaboratively with our peers to think of the best and most suitable adjectives to describe the scenes from the book. We have looked at the different spellings igh/i-e/ie which are often found in the story, and have begun to look at contractions (don’t / won’t / didn’t).

The children have been immersed in the scenes and have been able to use all their senses to describe the settings.

You can even download this page to practice your lovely cursive handwriting!

cursive handwriting sheet

This term we have been reading the story of the Cave Baby by Julia Donaldson

The children have loved exploring the text. We have predicted where else the mammoth might take cave baby and explored how he felt when he was first taken.

Year Two have written some amazing stories about cave baby’s adventures, we are so proud of the progress each and everyone has made.

We finished the term with diamante poems. This gave us the opportunity to continue our SPaG work this term through identifying different word groups.