Navigation Home Page Coten End, Warwick CV34 4NP 01926 491329 admin2623@welearn365.com Year 2 Home Year Group Blogs Year 2 Welcome Videos Maths English Active Learn Knowledge Organisers Yearly Overview Useful Websites and Resources Welcome to our Year 2 blog. Come here for weekly updates. 3.12.21 In Maths we have carried on learning about fractions and we have been finding a half, a quarter, two-quarters and three quarters of quantities. We have all been practising the Christmas songs for our class concert next week and the music and lyrics are on google classroom if you want to practise some more! In RE, we have been learning about what Hindus believe about Brahman, the Supreme God of Hindu. Some of us have finished our work about Hindus and made Diva lamps when learning about the Hindu story of Rama and Sita and about why Diwali is special to Hindus. Some of us will be making our lamps next week. In English, we described the Firebird from the story and imagined seeing it for the first time. We had another fun end to the week, with a fabulous time at the Friends Christmas Fair where we won lots of prizes. It was very exciting. A big thank you to all our families for helping us make the Stuart/ Tudor houses ready for our 'Great Fire' on our theme day. Have a lovely weekend, from the Year 2 children and teachers 1 / 25 26.11.21 In Maths we have started work on fractions and loved making halves and quarters out of playdough shapes. This week in Reading, we started reading the Firebird by Mairi Mackinnon and carried on reading The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson. In Science we worked in groups and tested the strength of different papers. It was lot of fun. In History we got to pretend we were Christopher Wren and drew our own architect's plan of what London should look like after the Great Fire and follow some rules to make London better protected from another fire. We ended the week with our non-uniform day and brought in prizes for the Friends chocolate tombola. Stay warm this weekend! from the Year 2 children and teachers 1 / 23 19.11.21 We began the week with a special visitor in assembly, who talked to us about the Five Pillars of Islam and showed us about how Muslims pray and about giving to charity. This week in History, we found out what happened in the Great Fire of London - we sequenced the events on a time-line. Did you know that the fire lasted for 4 days? We looked at some of the reasons the fire spread so quickly and talked about what it was like for Fire fighters in the 17th Century. In Maths we have practising recalling addition and subtraction number facts up to 20 and using these to help us work out missing number problems. In Gymnastics, we have practised jumping, balancing and holding shapes. We enjoyed leaping off the apparatus! This week in PSHE we talked about Anti-Bullying Week, which is called 'One Kind Word' this year. We also made a poster that had to include a 'Kindness' quote from an author. In English we practised writing different sentence types and wrote a letter to Guy Fawkes from Robert Catesby. In Science we carried on looking at different materials and their properties. We investigated how we can change the shape of materials by bending , squashing, stretching and twisting. We ended the week with the Children in Need Cake Sale - and ate some delicious cakes! Have a relaxing weekend from the Year 2 children and teachers 1 / 34 12.11.21 This week in History, we time-travelled back to the Year 1666 when an important event took place. Do you know what it was? A dusty mystery suitcase appeared full of clues. We looked at the historical sources and thought of questions we'd like to ask about our new History topic. In Maths we have practising addition and subtraction and solving some problems using pictures. In PE, we have practised balances and shapes in Gymnastics and in Circuit training, we practised different activities that all had jumping in them. It was fun using the stopwatches but a bit complicated too. Our Jigsaw learning this half term is 'Celebrating Difference' and in pairs, we talked about things we had in common with our partner and wrote it on a shield. In English we made a 'Found' Bonfire Night Poem, using words and phrase we collected from a story we read and rearranging them into a poem. There were some tricky words like 'cacophony of noise' that we learned too. In Science we carried on looking at different materials and their properties. We investigated some natural and man-made materials and what they are used for. Have a lovely weekend from the Year 2 children and teachers 1 / 16 5.11.21 This week we had school photographs and also our flu immunisations. We did our topic covers for our new theme, 'Flames and Fireworks' and you can see some examples in the photos. In the playground, lots of us have been improving our skipping skills and love two feet skipping, hopscotch skipping and running skipping. In Maths we have practising multiplying and dividing and solving some problems using pictures. Materials is our new Science topic and we have been sorting different materials and practising using the right Science vocabulary to describe them. Did you know the difference between translucent and transparent? In History we have been learning about the Gunpowder Plot. Did you know that Robert Catesby was the ringleader of the plot and not Guy Fawkes? Guy Fawkes was the expert in explosives. Have a great weekend From Year Two 1 / 14 22.10.21 This week was teacher assessment week for us and we did some Maths quizzes independently as well as a Phonics quiz and a Science quiz. Our teachers were very impressed with how hard we tried. We also read the book 'Why Elephant has a Trunk' and sequenced the events in the story. We wrote some sentences to describe the setting and the main character, trying to use expanded noun phrases, full sentences and conjunctions. It was really lovely to welcome some of our families into school to share some Reading and Phonics with us in our 'Come and Learn ' workshop. We want to say a big thank you to all our families for helping us with our learning. Wishing you a relaxing half term from the Year 2 children and Staff 1 / 19 17.10.21 The highlight of this week was cooking our modified version of the West African dish Jollof rice - each group chose to add either lentils or chickpeas for extra protein and some extra of our favourite vegetables. Some of us even added some extra smoked paprika for added spiciness. We practised the bridge and claw methods of cutting foods and also used graters and peelers. There are many different recipes of Jollof rice available and the one we adapted is the one you can find on this half term's knowledge organise for those of you that want to make it at home. We also had a visit from Reverend Kevin to help celebrate our Harvest Assembly. In Science we have been learning about simple food chains as part of our work on Living Things and their habitats. In English we have been practising extending and joining short sentences using different conjunctions. In Maths we have been practising methods for multiplication and division. 1 / 26 8.10.21 We ended the week with a fabulous Music assembly, with children from Warwick School playing woodwind and string instruments for us. What a treat! In PSHE we talked about good strategies for helping us if we feel worried. In Science we have carried out a 'woodlice investigation' to see which habitat they preferred, then recorded our results in a pictogram. We had some interesting results. In English we did our last piece of work on Meerkat Mail and wrote a postcard from Sunny to his Mum and Dad to tell them all about Madagascar. In Maths we have been partioning two-digit numbers in different ways, using diennes to help. 1 / 14 1.10.21 The highlights of our week this week have been our African workshops for dance and drumming on Tuesday and making our Adinkra stamp t-shirts in Art. You can see some photos below. In Science we have been learning about ADAPTATION and how living things adapt to survive in their environment. Our English this week has been linked to the story 'Meerkat Mail' by Emily Gravett and we have been thinking of questions to ask Sunny the meerkat. In Maths we have been continuing our work on adding and subtracting pictorally by drawing Tens and ones. In DT we learned about where food comes from and also learned about why we should eat a variety of different foods to stay healthy, ready for cooking Jollof rice next week. 1 / 9 24.9.21 We have had a very learning-packed few weeks so far this half term in Year 2. Today we ended the week with some fun language quizzes to celebrate European Languages Day 2021. Last week we went on a Geography fieldtrip around St Nic’s park to look at human and physical features. In Science we have been learning about living thing and their habitats and this week we went on a minibeast hunt to see which micro habitats we could find. We found the most under the logs, under and on bark and in the soil. In Maths last week we used Dienes to add 2-digit numbers and then drew these in our books as pictures. This week we subtracted using Dienes and then drew the pictures in our books. In Art we have designed our Adinkra stamps and will be making them next week ready to print on our T-shirts. You can see some examples of our designs attached. In English we have been learning how to use an online thesaurus to find synonyms and also practised identifying nouns, adjectives, verbs and even adverbs. 1 / 12 Welcome Contact Details Vision School tour Who's Who Ofsted Safeguarding Policies Statutory Information Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data Protection Useful links Reception 2021 Info British Values Our School Day Calendar Admissions SEND Provision School Dinner Menu Useful Documents School Uniform Our Curriculum Curriculum Enrichment Computing and Online Safety Early Years & Foundation Subjects English Foundation Subjects Maths MFL Science General Letters Clubs Newsletters Music Trips Parents' Evening Swimming Governors School Council Kidz Own Friends Association Charity Committee Eco-Committee Rainbow Games VE Day - 75 NHS Rainbows Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Sitemap Cookie Information Website Policy All website content copyright © Coten End Primary School Website design by PrimarySite Cookies Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips. 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