Year Two
Our Class teachers are: Mrs Clarke and Mrs Patterson
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Price
VALUES DRIVEN LEARNING
At Litherland Moss we have a values-driven approach to learning. Below is the ‘Rainbow Pathway’ for our current curriculum focus on Science, Art and Geography.
This half-term in Science we are learning about Living Things and Their Habitats. We will be exploring our school grounds to search for plants and animals and identify their habitats.
In Geography, our new topic is called Let's Go Global! We will be learning about where we live in the world, we will be exploring the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world. We will also identify human and physical features of our world.
We are looking forward to practising and expanding our drawing skills in art as we explore drawing, sketching and evaluating a range of inspiring pieces of art.
In English, our Ready Steady Write text for this half-term is 'A River' by Marc Martin. We are discussing new language features and writing techniques found within the book to help the children mould their own story which they will write at the end of the half-term.
Important information
This half-term, children in Year 2 will be swimming on Tuesday afternoons. Please ensure that children are prepared with all of their kit for this day. They will need a towel, swimming costume/swimming shorts and a swimming cap. Please note that the swimming baths have kindly requested for boys to come with swimming shorts as opposed to ‘surf shorts’.
Class Novel
This term, we are reading 'The Owl Who is Afraid of the Dark' by Jill Tomlinson. The children are enjoying hearing about how Plop feels in the story and how he overcomes his fears of the dark.
Regular reading helps children to develop their fluency and comprehension skills, and in turn, allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Reading books will be changed on Fridays. We will send home a reading book each week to match their phonic ability. Please bring your child's reading book into school each day so that we can continue to read with them in school also.
Spellings will also be given out on a Friday and need to be learnt for the following Friday when the children will do a spelling test. The children will also be told about a times table test each week - these will either be 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
Working at home
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