Welcome to the Year 2 Page
Croeso i Flwyddyn Dau
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Spring Term Overview
Knowledge and Understanding of the world
Science-Forces- pushing and pulling, using wind and water, making a wind speed measurer, Dicovery Dog investigation, bulldog buggies.
Boats,floating and sinking
Making ice cream/ candy floss
Geography- list of places visited by the children, locate places using maps and atlases
Different ways of travelling to the seaside (transport timetables)
Label main features- human and physical- of the seaside
Use maps/plans in brochures to plan a weeks itinerary
Katie Morag- an island home.
History-Look at photos/ video of seaside now and in the past. Magic Grandad. Discuss changes to the seaside over time. Record using headings clothes, transport, beach.
Mathematical Development
Numeracy
Numbers to 100 then 1000
Counting in threes, fours and fives. Comparing and ordering numbers.
Addition to 100
Subtraction to 20
Numbers between, estimating and rounding.
Shape Space and Measure
Recognising and describing 2D shape. Halves and quarters. Time.
Problem Solving
Flags Icecream/lollies problem solving
Language Development
Reading Group/Independent/Class
Oracy individual news,role play, drama, hot seating.
Writing
Text level-Traditional/modern stories,different points of view, alternative endings, character profiles, poster/postcards. Humorous stories. Poetry -class anthology, humorous verse
Non fiction-class dictionaries, glossaries, information books,
Sentence level
Grammatical awareness-verb agreement, tenses. Simple sentences, speech marks, commas, captions, headings, subheadings, speech bubbles.
Word level
Practise and reinforce work from term 1. Discriminate, spell and read the common spelling patterns for the vowel phonemes air, or, er.
Weekly spellings key words, common endings
Texts Katie Morag, Dynamites, Kingdom under the Sea
Creative Development
Art- landscape pastel, painting, observational drawings, camouflage pictures, clay shells,
natural sculptures, tie dye batik, seaside collage.
Music- exploring sound / timbre seaside composition.
D.T. Puppets.
Physical Development
Dance create dance movements to represent life under the sea
Games
Ball skills, Throwing and catching.
Adventurous
Gymnastics
Supporting weight, raising parts of the body high.
Personal and social Development, Well-Being and Cultural diversity
Structured Play Punch and Judy puppets
Social responsibilities.
Right and Wrong
Differences/similarities
Special places- visit to chapel
Special people Moses, Joseph.
Welsh Language Development
Ble?
Dw’in hoffi
Counting
Agor y drys
Helpwr heddiw
Class books
Eisteddfod