Welcome to Sycamore Class!
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Hello and welcome to the page for Year 2 - Sycamore Class.
You will find out lots of information about our class and what we will be learning about in Year 2.
Our Class Charter
We all came together as a class to make the charter for our class. We discussed what we thought we all needed to do to make our classroom happy and where everyone feels safe and can learn. All the children signed to say they agree.
Staff
Mrs Smith teaches Sycamore Class
Sarah Yates (HLTA) teaches the class on Thursday afternoon.
Class Timetable
Here is our class timetable.
As you can see, we have 2 lessons of PE a week. We currently do PE Mondays and Wednesdays. Please can you ensure that PE kits are in a bag in school for those days. We also need PE kit for outdoors as well as indoor PE.
Children need to have a water bottle in school everyday. Please can ensure it has your child's name on.
Home Learning
We send home what words and sounds we have covered in Little Wandle during the week on a Friday. These are to reinforce at home and practise the spellings in any fun way you wish!
We send home Little Wandle reading books on a Wednesday to return on the following Monday. Please ensure you read the book at home with your child and record in the reading record.
We will send home topic or maths homweork every two weeks. This will be linked to learning they have completed in school. You can be as creative as you like. We love to see the projects from home.
What we will be Learning.
Autumn 1 Half Term - 'Our Town, Our Village'
Geography:
We will be learning about where we live in relation to the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. We will recap over the four countries of the UK and their capital cities. We will study globes, maps and atlases to explore where places are.
We will find out about villages, towns and cities and geographical features that are associated with them.
Science: Animals including humans
We will be learning that animals including humans have offspring which grow into adults. We will find out about and describe the basic needs of animals including humans for survival.
We will also describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food and hygiene.
Maths:
This term in maths, Year 2 will be developing a strong foundation in Place Value, learning to understand and use numbers up to 100. We'll be exploring how to represent numbers in different ways, as well as comparing and ordering them. We'll also be focusing on Addition and Subtraction, building on the skills learned in Year 1 to become more confident and accurate with mental and written calculations.
Autumn 2 Half Term - 'Great Fire of London'
History:
We will be finding out about the Great Fire of London. We will be exploring how it started, why it got so big and spread so quickly, what happened after, how many people died and then moving onto why a fire so big shouldn't happen again due to modern day firefighting. This is a great topic to learn about how things have changed and what life was like in the past.
Science: Everyday materials
We will be learning about properties of different kinds of materials and their uses. We will be lookonmg at how we can change the shape of some materials by twisting, squashing, bending and stretching. We will be exploring the suitablility of materials for their intended uses and learn how to compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of their simple properties.
Computing: Digital Music
We will be responding to music and explore how they music can make us feel certain ways. We will then be using Chrome musiclab to creat rhythms and patterns and creat short pieces of music.
Art: Clay
We will be using clay to mould and create pieces of art and developing into making clay houses using appropriate tools.
Maths:
We will be continuing addition and subtraction strategies and then moving onto shape where we will explore 2D and 3D shape and their properties.
Spring 1 Half Term - 'Food glorious Food'
Geography:
In geography, we will be learning about the world. We begin by looking at the seven continents and the five oceans. We will locate them and use globes and atlases to explore what they are near etc. We will then find out facts and features of each one.
We also locate hot and cold area of the world in relation to the equator and the North and South Poles.
We then move on to know our food comes from different parts of the world.
Here are some link to the songs that we learn that help them remember the continents and oceans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BE4VcYngQ
Science: Animals including humans
We continue our learning on animals. We begin with contonuing work on food groups and a balanced diet and how we need this to stay healthy.
We will also describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food and hygiene.
Literacy:
We will be looking at the book 'The Giant Jam sandwich' and explore the story, looking at expanded noun phrases, new vocabulary and building up to writing our own version of the story. We will also look at instructional writing by writing clear instructions of how to make a jam sandwich - and make and eat one too!
Design Technology:
The children will look at healthy and not healthy foods linking to their science learning. They will design a fruit salad and then make and eat it. They will look at a variety of fruits, some they might not have seen before. We will also explore different vegetables.
Computing: Programming a robot
We will beusing the Bee-bots to explore how to use command to programme a robot. We will use forwards, backwards, left and right. The children will learn how to use algorithms to make sure the robot goes where they want it to go. They will then debug if their instructions do not work!
Maths:
This term in maths, Year 2 will be starting off with money, looking at pounds and pence and being able to count money accurately.
We will then move onto multiplication and division, looing in particular at the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
Links to Try at Home
Topmarks Little Wandle for parents BBC Bitesize