What a fantastic half term we’ve had in Year 2!

In English, we loved writing our non-chronological reports all about ourselves. We learned how to organise our writing into paragraphs and even added subheadings. Thank you to everyone at home who helped with the planning sheet—this really supported the children’s ideas. We also enjoyed reading our class book Kevin. We wrote character descriptions, made predictions, and even created our very own imaginary characters!

In Maths, we have been busy exploring measurement. We learned how to measure length and height using both rulers and metre sticks, and now we know which tool to choose depending on what we’re measuring. We have also used grams and kilograms to measure mass, and litres and millilitres to measure capacity. Alongside this, we’ve been practising our column addition and subtraction, including knowing when we need to exchange or ‘borrow’ a ten. We practise our times tables every week too, and we’re becoming confident with lots of multiplication facts.

In DT, our puppet project has been a big success! We created the puppet heads using newspaper, masking tape and a layer of mod-roc. We also learned all about Jim Henson—the puppeteer who created The Muppets.

In Computing, we have been learning how to make pictograms. First, we went on a mini-beast hunt around the classroom and recorded what we found using a tally chart. Then we used the iPads to turn our information into a pictogram. Can you explain to your grown-up what a pictogram is and why it is useful?

In Science, we have started chitting our potatoes and are looking forward to planting them next term. We’ve also been learning about different materials, their properties, and what they are most suitable for. One of our favourite lessons this half term was testing which material would make the best hankie!

We hope you have a lovely, restful Easter break and we look forward to seeing you in the summer term!