Mrs Parkinson’s Year 2 Class
Mrs Parkinson’s Year 2 Class
On this web page you can find out about all the exciting things taking place in Year 2!
Teacher: Mrs Parkinson
Email: ecollins@victoriousacademies.org
Twitter: MrsJParkinson@Year2Discovery
Teaching Assistant: Miss Qualters
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Term: Spring 1
Our Learning this term:
Maths: Measurement – This term we will be exploring and recognising the value of coins, finding totals and change using addition and subtraction and solving two step problems in the context of money.
Multiplication and Division – This term we will be making equal groups and arrays to represent the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. We will also be making equal groups to share by 2, 5 and 10.
English: This term we will be reading the book The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward. We will be going on a dragon hunt inside the classroom to engage the children in the topic. We will then explore descriptive and positional language, create a guide and then engage with the main character’s thoughts and emotions through letter writing. The children will explore year 2 spelling patterns and rules and finally write their own extended ‘dragon machine’ story. We will then look at recounts and write our own recount based on our trip to Manchester Airport.
Science: Animals including humans
We are looking at how animals including humans grow and develop. We are discussing how we survive and what key things animals need to survive. We will also be learning how all young animals change as they go through the different stages of their life cycle and grow into adults.
History: How different would the world be without aviation?
The children will be first attending Manchester Airport Runway Visitor Park where they will take part in a workshop on the different aircrafts, the history of flight, the different roles and responsibilities at an airport as well as opportunities to take part in role play. In class we will be discussing the first flight by the Wright Brothers and the first transatlantic flight by Amelia Earheart. They will use role play, objects and pictures to retell an event from the past and use vocabulary related to the passing of time.
Art: Expressive Painting
This half term the children will be introduced to the artists – Marela Zacarías, Charlie French, Vincent Van Gogh and Cezanne and discuss and evaluate their work. They will make their own abstract patterns using home-made tools to apply the paint and they will continue to develop their knowledge of primary and secondary colours through expressive mark making, connecting colour and texture. Finally the children will arrange their own still life scene using continuous line drawing, introducing colour and form by tearing and arranging coloured paper into their composition, and then use acrylic paint to create paintings of their still life scene.
Computing: Can I use technology to find out information?
The children will learn how to search effectively and safely online and also take part in e-safety day. We are alos looking at our typing and editing skills. We will look at inserting images and producing a poster.
Music: Can use my understanding of duration to compose and play music using the glockenspiel?
The children will be using glockenspiel to learn and play the song Mamma Mia focusing on the duration of notes and the language of music.
RE: Islam
The children will be exploring what Islam is, where it originates from and what they do Muslims do in the present day.
PSHE: Living in the Wider World – One World. The children will explore their own family life, home and school and compare these to children’s family life, homes and school from around the world which are different from their own. They will also learn about the relationship between people and their environment and how this affects their way of life. The children will also learn about how people use the earth’s resources and the importance of protecting the earth for ourselves and future generations and how we can work together to do this.
General Class Information
Reading: Each week, the children read a range of texts through their learning. They also take part in whole class or small group Reading sessions where their decoding and comprehension skills are developed with a different reading skill being focused on each day.
Home reading is to practice and consolidate their fluency, expression and comprehension. Children still being taught phonics will take two books home – 1 decodable book and 1 reading for pleasure book and be assigned a Collins ebook based on the book they have read in school that week. The decodable book is for the children to practice their fluency and expression as well as to show their understanding through questioning. The reading for pleasure book is for the children to share with an adult and to promote a love of reading. If they are past being taught phonics they will be sent home 1 colour banded book to practise decoding and comprehension as well as 1 reading for pleasure book. Please let us know how your child has got on with their reading books using the reading record. We would like you to write a comment each time you hear your child read.
The children will also be listened to at least once every two weeks on a 1-1 basis with their teacher or teaching assistant. The class teacher or teaching assistant will change your child’s book on the day they are listened to read. We will not change a home reading book unless there is a comment in the reading record. If we do not have a comment or a book is not returned for two weeks Mrs Collins, our English curriculum leader, will contact you.
One child per half term will be nominated for being the Reading Hero for their class based on their commitment to home reading. The child will be chosen based on the evidence seen in their reading record and in class. If your child is chosen to be the class Reading Hero they will be given a prize and a certificate and acknowledged in Friday’s good work celebration assembly.
Homework:
- Read at home at least 3 times
- Go on TTRockstars twice for 10 min
- Go on Lexia twice for 10 min Lexia.
PE: PE is three times a week on a Wednesday and Thursday.
Your child will participate in a dance lesson and sports/gymnastics lesson every week as well as an additional cricket session. It is expected for children to have a full PE kit kept in school at all times.
Children should not be wearing any jewellery including earrings for PE. If your child does wear earrings, please could you ensure they are taken out before school on a Wednesday and Thursday please.
Snack: Snack is to be a piece of fruit or a cereal bar. No chocolate, crisps or sweets are allowed.