2A Miss Davies

Welcome to Year two!

Topic

Our topic this term is ‘Amazing Africa!’

During this topic we will be looking at;

• Where Africa is – continents, oceans, compass directions, climate, map skills (Geography)
• African wildlife – survival, food chains (Science)
• African culture and Art – we will be creating some African landscapes and masks (Art & D&T)
• Famous people in Africa (History)
• Comparing Africa to Rochdale (Geography)

English

Fiction

• Greedy Zebra – we are working on recognising different word types in a sentence and writing our own descriptive sentences. We will be writing about the character from the book – Greedy Zebra.

• The Shepherd girl of Bethlehem – second half term – we will be looking at the Christmas story told from a young girls perspective. We will imagine what it will be like ourselves to have been there.

Non-Fiction

• Report – Big cats – we will write a report about wild cats in Africa including lions and tigers.
• Instructions – towards the end of the first term we will look at instructions for making something Christmassy!!

Poetry – we will read some African poems and write our own.

SPAG

• Word types – Adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, imperative verbs
• Sentence types – statements, questions, commands
• Noun phrases, subordination and co-ordination
• Spelling – KS1 Common exceptions words – these will be ongoing throughout the year.

Spelling patterns

ge and dge,   soft c,    kn and gn (n),    wr,

word endings – le, el, al and il,   y, adding ‘es’ to nouns and verbs ending in y, ed, er, est and ing.

Maths

• Numberbonds to 10, 20, 100 and corresponding subtraction facts
• Doubles
• Multiplication -2, 3, 5 and 10 times table
• 10 more and less
• Statistics – pictograms, bar charts and tables
• Greater than, less than and equals too < > =
• Read and write numerals in numbers and words
• 2d and 3d shapes
• Polygons and non-polygons

Reading Books

Please make sure the book is returned everyday and the book will be changed on the specified day.

PE

PE will take place on Wednesdays – Please make sure full PE kit is in on this day.

Homework

• Homework will be given out on Fridays and should be returned by Wednesday.
• Children will have 5 maths, 5 English tasks and 1 topic task to complete each half term.
• Check which dates each question is due in by. One of each maths and English can be completed each week.
• Spellings will be sent home to practice.