March 6^th 2017

Our key learning objectives for our first week back will be:

Maths- we will be continuing to focus on money. We will be finding combinations of coins to make specific amounts and using our knowledge to solve problems.

Reading- We will be continuing to read The Twits by Roald Dahl.

Writing- we will be using our plans to begin to write a non-chronological report. We will be looking at introductions and conclusions and why they are important.

SPaG- We will be continuing to try to use subordinating conjunctions such as: even though, whether, because, though, while because and if). We are also looking at how to use commas in a list correctly.

Science- Our science topic this term is variation.

Our new topic for this half-term is How Are You? Links with history, art, georgraphy and PSHE.

PE- We will be developing our ball skills and working on invasion games.

RE-Our RE topic this term is Christianity.

Music- Year 2 will continue to have ministrings on Friday afternoons. Please remember to collect your child from the dining hall on this day.

 Maths objectives that you could help with at home:

• Relationships between addition and subtraction (fact families)
• Counting on and back in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s (to help with multiplication and division).
• Quick recall of number bonds to 20/ 100.
• Quick recall of doubles and halves to 100.
• Reading scales with intervals, for example when weighing ingredients.
• Finding ways of making amounts of money using coins.

• SPaG objectives that you could help with at home:

• Spelling the year 2 common exception words.
• Adding suffixes to root words (ing, est, er, ly, ful etc).
• Adding conjunctions (joining words) between clauses e.g. and, then, so, because, when, if.
• Adding adjectives (describing words) to simple sentences.
• Exclamatory sentences. These start with ‘what’ or ‘how’, must include a verb and have an exclamation mark at the end. For example: ‘What a beautiful hat you are wearing today!’.