Year 2 in Term 4

In Religion, the children are presently discussing what life was like for Jesus when he was a boy.  They will learn about some Jewish customs and traditions and then they will use the Jesse tree to follow all the important people in the Old Testament who prepared the way for the birth of Jesus.

In English, the children are really enjoying hearing ‘Charlotte’s Web’ being read in modelled reading time.  In shared reading time, the children are looking at persuasive writing texts.  Our grammar this term has also been focused on how we write persuasive texts, using the subject of the sentence and relating verbs, good adjectives and compound sentences.

In Maths, concepts covered will be division and multiplication, flip, slide and turn, rounding to 10, grid references and directions, trading in subtraction, quarter and half turns, calendars, money, symmetry and graphing.

In Health, the children have started discussing how to have a healthy lifestyle.  They will write an exposition of this and present on the app ‘Explain Everything’.  They will also create, in groups, a healthy advertisement using dance and song.

In Science in Term 4, we usually have a day of Science as the topic is ‘All Mixed Up’.  The children observe different mixtures using oil and dishwashing liquid, cocoa, rice bubbles, coconut and icing sugar.  They predict what will happen when certain ingredients are mixed together. 

Miss Jo Cosgrove and Mrs Siobhan Grundon | Year 2 Teachers