Year 2

This term, Year 2’s topic is all about animals. Within literacy, we will be watching ‘caterpillar shoes’ and writing both sense and character descriptions in the eyes of the spider. To further this, the children will be looking at the story book ‘Zoo’ by famous author Anthony Browne and will be writing different texts around the story such as recounts, perspective writing and animal fact files. In numeracy, we will be focusing on time (quarter past/to) and place value of numbers up to 100. During our art lessons, we will be looking at animal forms and making our own clay animals using ‘pinch and pull’ technique. Our history lessons will be based around ‘Fantastic Firsts’. We will be looking at famous events such as the first plane journey and mission to the moon and looking at the famous people who completed these journeys. To further our understanding of when things happened, we will be adding these to our own class timeline. In music, we will learn the song ‘hands, feet, heart’ and will learn about rhythm, pitch and music notation. In science, we will be learning about everyday materials and their properties which will in turn help us to create a safari camper in DT- which materials do you think would be suitable?