English: During this half term, we will be reading ‘The Great Explorer’ by Chris Judge. We will be focusing on instructions and letter writing. We will be learning how to use apostrophes, using past tense and continuing to develop our spelling and punctuation skills. We will also be looking at poetry. We will have the opportunity to perform and write our own acrostic poems.
Science: We will be focusing on ‘Living things and their habitats’. We will recap our Year 1 learning of how to classify animals and look at the vocabulary of carnivore, herbivore and omnivore. Through this we will describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.
Year 2 Half-term: Spring 1
Maths: In Maths this half term, we will begin looking at money including; identifying coins, making different amounts and giving and receiving amounts in pounds and pence. Following on from this we will be moving on to multiplication and division focussing more on the 2,5 and 10 times tables. We will then be looking at mental and written strategies such as multiplying and dividing with no exchange and with exchange.
Whole class reading: In our reading lessons, we will be continuing to read a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts. We will be focusing on developing our retrieval and inference skills and building our knowledge of vocabulary. We will also create opportunities for developing skills in our writing.
PE:
The children will participate in OAA (Outdoor Adventurous Activities) with WLSP and ‘Health and Fitness’ with the class teacher. The children will focus around the importance of fitness and what they can do to improve their own.