Author: Miss Young

This week in Year 2 we are focussing our learning on adding two 2-digit numbers together. To start with, we are learning to add two 2-digit numbers together that are not across ten. After this, the focus will be on adding across a ten.

Step 1 – write out the equation.

Step 2 – draw base ten to illustrate how many tens and how many ones are present in each number. (Lines to represent 10s, circles or squares to represent 1s).

Step 3 – add the tens together.

Step 4 – add the ones together.

Step 5 – add the above together.

By breaking the addition down into small, manageable steps we are able to answer these difficult questions with ease.

Here are some photographs of 2C in action! I am very impressed by how quickly the children are learning the process this week.

 

Help at home: by practicing these skills at home with your children. Use blank sheets of paper and ask children to talk through and show you their working out.

 

This week in Science, 2C had a fantastic time learning about freezing and melting. We are Chemists this half term and this week, we learnt about water.

We know that water is a liquid but when it reaches freezing point (0 degrees celsius), it turns into ice. Ice is a solid.

When ice heats up, it melts and turns into a liquid, water.

One of our experiments involved placing a cube of ice in our hands and watching it change state. The ice went from a solid to a liquid after some time.

Our next experiment included trying to melt a block of ice containing a small toy. We used four different methods. We used a hairdryer, a hot water bottle, water and a towel.

We found out that the hair dryer was most effective in melting the ice and freeing the toy because it produced the most heat. The towel took the longest because it emitted the least amount of heat.

Help at home: by freezing and melting ice and discussing how the heat and cold help change the properties of water.

This week in Living and Learning, our focus is on feelings and our mental wellbeing. We read a text about what mental health is and how we can look after our mental health. This can include activities that we like or spending time with family and friends.

We also looked at lots of different scenarios we may experience in our lives and how this would make us feel.

We know that we are all entitled to feel however we feel and that is okay. We also know what signs to look after in others, and how to be empathetic towards others.

Help at home: by encouraging your child to express their feelings often and talk about different types of emotions.

On Monday, Year 2 used their food preparation skills to create a banana sandwich.

This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to create a product each term.

Here are some pictures of us preparing our sandwiches!

Here are some pictures of us eating them!

Next week we will be writing some instructions about how to make a banana sandwiches.

We had an absolutely fantastic school trip at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield today.  We got there via coach (the children were super excited about this and sang most of the way there).

We started the day looking around the the different galleries in the art museum. We saw lots of different pieces of art and sculptures.

We had some brilliant discussions about the art works including how they changed in appearance as we changed our position in the room. Our discussions included texture (without touching the art) and the patterns we could see.  Next, we  had a go at drawing some of our own art, inspired by the art in the gallery. We used some small objects to help us do this, including shells, pine cones and plastic stencils.

After lunch (which we thoroughly enjoyed) we took part in a workshop.

The workshop included looking at some Barbara Hepworth sculptures and finding inspiration from them. We talked about how Hepworth was inspired by nature to produce her own art. After this, we looked at some of the repeated patterns in nature and produced our own art, using tracing paper and a black frame.

We then took part in a printing workshop where we made some 3D stencils and used them to make some colourful prints on our paper using primary colours.

 

This week in Science, Ks1 are looking at a variety of rocks. We know that rocks can be found in many different places and that rocks have many different properties.

We used words like rough, smooth, heavy and light to describe the rocks and created some posters on our tables.

We handled the rocks to feel their texture. We also organised them in a few different ways. This helped us to sort and classify.

We sorted the rocks from smallest to biggest and lightest (colour) to darkest in 2C.

Yesterday our school marked anti-bullying day by wearing odd socks to school. We did this to show that we are all different.

In class, we talked about the definition of bullying and what sort of things bullying includes.

Bullying is Several Times On Purpose.

We also spoke about what we should do if we think we are being bullied.

If we think we or anyone else is being bullied we should Start Telling Other People.

 

This week is money week at Scholes Primary School, so we thought that we would take the opportunity to learn about money and it’s value in Maths. In 2C we have learnt to recognise coins and their value. We have also been practising making the same amount using different coins.

We know that the only coins to exist are 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2. We are careful not to confuse our number bonds with money and make sure we only use the coins that exist, in our calculations. 

See what we’ve been getting up to in our Maths lessons this week!

Help at home: by using this link and getting children used to using different coins to make an amount or how to select the correct change. 

Toy Shop Money Game (GBP) – Topmarks

 

We had a fantastic time at the EYFS/ KS1 disco on Friday. There were lots of spooky characters about who had a brilliant time showing off their dance moves! Here are some photos of 2C (before the disco began!)