Year 2 Newsletter

Wow! What a great week we have had in Year 2! Even though it has been very quiet in school this week, Year 2 have been as busy as always. We are continuing to be amazed with all the work the children are producing with their home learning and are very proud of the effort they are putting in during this unusual time. A big shout out to the parents also, who are supporting your chldren at home in such a fantastic way. Thank you. In Maths we have been learning about division and in particular dividing by 2. We have been working on number problems that involve sharing objects into 2 groups and finding out how many in each group. Our English work has been centred around special shoes! The children watched a lovely video of how a caterpillar gave away all his shoes to other creatures who would benefit from them. We then thought, what if we had a pair of special shoes that gave the wearer special abilities, such as flying or turning invisible or even creating tornado's! With a structure in place and a planner, the children were given freedom to create their own story about their special pair of shoes! Some of the writing blew us away! We are really looking forward to next week when we use the book Tadpoles Promise by Jeanna Willis and Tony Ross to base our English writing on. You can see the story here Over the past couplle of weeks the children have been working on thier sketching skills using techniques such as cross hatching. This week they began to ut these skills together by drawing a castle. You can see some of the amazing drawngs they have produce below from Bobbi and Emily. Well done everyone on your incredivle castle drawings.