Y2 Learning Challenge and Termly Overview

Welcome back to Year 2, below is the Learning Challenge and Termly Overview. Paper copies have also been sent home. We look forward to seeing your projects and giving out lots of certificates! Remember you have the whole 5 weeks to complete your challenge.

Don't forget if you are looking for other activities to practise your times tables (you can even do this on many apps online now or follow the BBC bytesize games). We are learning 2, 5, 10 and 3. You can also take home Rockstar sheets to help.

You can also read every day at home and you can change your books every morning on your way into school and during choice time. Well done to all the children who moved colour last term! Great job!

Dear Parents and Carers,

Year 2 – Spring Curriculum Newsletter

Welcome back to the New Term! We hope you find this letter informative. This term, University of Broadford begins! Each week on a Friday afternoon, the children will attend their chosen course, which they are very excited about. Later in the term children will ‘graduate’ which you will be invited to attend (dates to be confirmed).

Homework:

Our expectation at Broadford is that every child should do the following every night:

·         15 minutes reading to themselves or an adult and note in the reading record

·         15 minutes practicing spellings

·         15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts (including multiplication and division)

If children would like to attempt an additional challenge, we have a new Learning Challenge for children to attempt. All of the activities are based around a significant person, poem or painting relating to our topics. Children do not have to attempt every activity but instead select the activities that they are most interested in and compile a project that reflects the extra time and effort that they have put into their challenge. We hope that children will take their time with the challenge and be proud of the work they produce.

Spellings:

Spellings will be given out on Mondays. The children should practise their words every evening. The test will take place on Fridays.

Trips

Year 2 will have a Sculpture workshop this term. We will be having our annual infant music festival. We will be having open events on 5^th February to show Writing and Grammar (9am) and 19^th March to show Maths Reasoning (9am).

Curriculum Information

We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this term. If you would like to make any suggestions of what you or your child would like to learn in relation to the topics taught, please let the team know. We welcome any suggestions you may have.

Yours Sincerely,

Ms Hammond          Mr Jackson            Ms Jennings      

Cherry teacher

Year 2 Leader                      Cedar teacher                 Chestnut teacher

Spring
	1st Half Term	2nd Half Term
Topic	Christopher Columbus	The Great Outdoors
Literacy	RWI and Literacy and Language	RWI and Literacy and Language
	Please fill in the reading record after hearing your child read in order to gain prizes and certificates. For a good selection of childrens books visit your local library. Useful web links- http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/
Numeracy	Statistics Geometry	Fractions Length & height Problem solving
	Please practice the 2, 5, 10, 3 times tables with your children. We complete Rock Stars Maths. Children may take home the sheet they are on to practice. It needs to be completed in 5 minutes to move onto the next sheet. Useful websites: www.mymaths.co.uk www.mathszone.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/numeracy.shtml www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1numeracy.html
ICT	Google maps Online research Purple Mash	Showbie
Science	Materials - habitats	Materials – habitats
	You could visit the Science Museum. Admission is free. Located at Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD.
History/Geography	Christopher Columbus – compass points The Oceans & Continents
P.E	Ball games	Ball games
Music	Beat and rhythm	Pitch and Timbre
Art/ Design and Technology	American Indian art	Steven Wiltshire.
P.H.S.E/R.E	Growth mindset	Easter

Significant Person: Christopher Columbus

Poem:1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue

In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

He had three ships and left from Spain;
He sailed through sunshine, wind and rain.

He sailed by night; he sailed by day;
He used the stars to find his way.

A compass also helped him know
How to find the way to go.

Ninety sailors were on board;
Some men worked while others snored.

Then the workers went to sleep;
And others watched the ocean deep.

Day after day they looked for land;
They dreamed of trees and rocks and sand.

October 12 their dream came true,
You never saw a happier crew!

"Indians! Indians!" Columbus cried;
His heart was filled with joyful pride.

But "India" the land was not;
It was the Bahamas, and it was hot.

The first American? No, not quite.
But Columbus was brave, and he was bright.

Painting: Stephen Wiltshire: Aerial view of River Thames

	Poem	Painting	Person
Basic	Learn it off by heart.	Draw a picture in similar style.	Draw a portrait of the person.
Advanced	Write the poem out in your best handwriting.	Find out 10 facts about Stephen Wiltshire.	Produce a timeline of his life.
Deep	Write your own poem inspired by the theme ‘exploration’.	Create your own landscape drawing depicting places of significance to you.	Write a diary entry as Columbus whilst he was sailing.