Year 2 News 14.6.24

This week, we welcomed author, Suzy Senior, into school for a workshop with KS1. Suzy shared her new novel, Banana Hunt with us and told us all about the writing process. We had the opportunity to ask her lots of questions and find out all about the different people involved in creating books. She shared lots of illustrations with us and challenged us to spot some of the secret objects hidden within her books. She ended the session by reading aloud her most well known story, Octopants and taught us the inspirational song behind it. We are looking forward to borrowing the signed copies of her books from our school library!

English

Our English lessons got off to an exciting start this week as we were delivered a letter from a professor at Leeds University. He is a specialist in habitats but had recently come across a mysterious creature and wondered if we knew anything about it. We knew straight away by his description that he had found a bog baby! After discussing what the professor should and shouldn’t do to care for such a rare creature, we all responded to his letter. We have also spent some time learning our class poem ahead of our whole school poetry slam next month.

Spelling

We have been learning spellings where the letter o makes an u sound e.g. other, mother, brother, cover, some.

Maths

We have concluded our work on time this week by exploring how many minutes are in an hour and how many hours are in a day. We then used this knowledge to add together intervals of time and convert between units of time.

Please keep going on Mathletics at home. There are some time activities set for you. We only have a few more weeks to earn those certificates!

Geography

In geography this week, we learned the compass points and practised following directions around a set of cones. We know that the infant building is the North building and the junious is the south! We have also been looking at how maps differ to aerial photographs. We discussed how the physical features we can see on photographs are shown on maps as symbols; we had a go at matching ordnance survey map symbols to photographs.