Year 2 Week Ahead Information

05 February 2016

Find out what we will be covering once we return from the Chinese New Year holidays.

Information and Reminders

A reminder that school starts at 8.30am prompt. Please ensure your child arrives at school ready to be in class at 8.30am.

Monday 15^th February – First day back at school.

Tuesday 16^th February - Exit point of The Magic Shoemaker - see letter and invitation for more details.

Wednesday 17^th February - Entry point for new topic Famous People Party - See homework task for more details.

Wednesday 17th February – Early Years and Infant parent workshop and coffee morning 9:00am - 10:00am. The theme for this workshop will be Reading and Phonics.

P.E. Reminder:

2A - Swimming on Monday - Games on Wednesday

2B - Games on Monday - Swimming on Wednesday

2C - Games on Monday - Swimming on Friday.

English

After the holidays we will start a new book called Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French.

Objectives covered will include; using the present and past tense correctly, identifying and spelling different homophones, and considering what we are going to write before beginning by encapsulating what we are going to say sentence by sentence.

Maths

In Maths we will:

count in steps of 2, 3 and 5 from 0 and in tens from any number, forward and backward
recognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens, ones)
identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations, including the number line
read and write numbers to at least 100 in numerals
use place value and number facts to solve problems

Topic

We will begin our new topic People of the Past. History is one big story, filled with important people who did many great things - scientists, rulers, artist, writers, explorers.

By learning about these people and what they did, we can find out more about the qualities that make someone great.

In History, we will be: