Engli sh: During thi s half term, w e will be r eading ‘The Gr eat Explor er’ by Chri s Judge. We will be focu sing on in struction s and letter writing. We will be learning how to u se apostrophe s, u sing pa st ten se and continuing to de v elop our spelling and punctuation skill s. We will al so be looking at poetry. We will ha v e the opportunity to perform and write our own acrostic poem s.
Science: We will be focu sing on
‘Li ving things and their habitat s’ thi s half term. We will r ecap our Year 1 learning of how to cla s sify animal s and look at the vocabulary of carni vor e, herbi vor e and omni vor e. Throughout thi s w e will de scribe how animal s obtain their food from plant s and other animal s, u sing the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name differ ent source s of healthy food for human s.
Year 2: Spring 1 Whole cla s s r eading: In our r eading
le s son s, w e will be continuing to r ead a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry te xt s. We will be focu sing on de v eloping our r etrie val and infer ence skill s and building our knowledge of vocabulary. We will al so cr eate opportunitie s for de v eloping skill s in our writing.
Math s:
In Math s thi s half term, w e will begin looking at money including; identifying coin s, making differ ent amount s and gi ving and r ecei ving amount s in pound s and pence. Following on from thi s w e will be moving on to multiplication and di vi sion focu s sing mor e on the 2,5 and 10 time s table s. We will then be looking at mental and written strategie s such a s multiplying and di viding with no e xchange and with e xchange. PE:
During our se s sion s with our WLSP coach w e will be de v eloping our dance skill s. We will cr eate a dance u sing mirroring, partner work and simple motifs. In our cla s s teacher se s sion s w e will be doing Striking and Fielding focu s sing on hitting and catching a ball.