Year:2
Weekbeginning:13.3.16
Weekly This week the children have started their poetry unit in English. They have been looking at different
overview poems and books with a rhyming style. All classes have been planting seeds and are enjoying
Learning
L.OToanswer
Wehavebeenworkinghardon
Divisionideasseebelow
divisionquestions.
divisionwhatitisandhowtowork
outthequestions.
L.OToknowthat
divisionisthe
Thechidlrenhavebeenrelatingthis Inverseexamplesseebelow
inverseof
totheinverse.Lookingathowto
multiplication.
checktheiranswersbyusing
inverse
Maths
L.OTofindlinesof
symmetry.
62=33x2=6
Seesymmetryideasbelow
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L.OToidentify
Wehaverevised2Dshapesand
ex/299/6/2/1
propertiesof2D
assessedforfuturelearning3D
and3Dshapes.
shapes.
Flatandsolidshapes
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English
L.O.Towritesentences
usingcapitalletters
andfullstops.
L.O.Tocreateanidea
basedonaneventina
story.
L.O.Todescribeand
commenton
illustrations.
L.O.Torehearseand
performapoem.
http://www.poetry4kids.com
http://www.gigglepoetry.com
Alistofgreatideasforpoetry:
SPaG
Topic
LO:Tospell
exceptionwords.
LO:Toreviseany
misconceptions
fromourSPaG
assessmentlast
week.
Thechildrenhavebeenpractisingthe
spellingofwordswhichcannotbe
soundedout.
Ingrammarandpunctuation,eachclass
teacherhasrevisedcommon
misconceptionspersonaltothe
individualneedsoftheirclass.
Toexplainthatplants
needlightforhealthy
growth.
Toknowthepartsofa
bulb.
Toidentifyplantsusing
referencematerials.
Todesignaplantusing
aselectionofseeds.
Wetalkedaboutsunlightandhow
itisneededforplantstogrow.We
coveredanareaofgrasstosee
whatwillhappenwithnolight.
Wemonitoredtheprogressofthe
seedsweplantedlastweek,oneof
whichisinacupboardwithno
light.
Wesketcheddifferenttypesof
plantsandweusedaselectionof
seedstomakeaplantpicture.
http://edtecher.hubpages.com/hub/k12interactiv
epoetry
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5/4/1/1/null/null/false/false/null/0
Pleasefocusontheuseoftheapostrophefor
possessionandcontraction,recognisingthenoun,
verbandadjectiveinagivensentenceandthe
rulesforusingspeech.
Goonabulbhuntinthesupermarket/garden
centre.Howmanydifferenttypesofbulbplants
canyoufind?
Haveagoatmakingapieceofartworkusing
seeds.Heresanexampleofonewedidatschool
ThisiswhatYear2WestbayhavebeendoinginArabicthisweek:
ThisweekinArabicYear2recalledhowtoaskaboyWhatdoyouwant?
(Ma
t h
atureed?)
anda
girl
(Ma
th
aturedeen?)
andrespondIwantapencil
(Ureeduqalam)
,Iwantabook
(Ureedu
kitab)
,Iwantabag
(Ureedu
h
akeeba)
andIwantabicycle
(Ureedudaraja).
Thestudentshavealsorecalledtheletterstaken.(
,
,
)
Arabic
StudentsworkinginBook1practicedrecognizingalltheletterstakenwhenwritteninthe
beginning,middleandendofaword.(
,
,
,
,
,
,
)
StudentsworkinginBook2havesolvedexercisesrelatedtothenewgrammarlesson
Lines of Symmetry
1. Use a ruler to draw all the lines of symmetry you can on each shape, then
check them with a mirror.
A
1. Draw the reflection of each shape on the other side of the dotted mirror line.
12 2 =
82=
14 2 =
10 2 =
Watch out!
12 3 =
14 3 =
63=
10 5 =
14 2 =
15 5 =
Division
with remainders
15 2 = 7
r1
14 3 =
17 3 =
73=
11 5 =
11 2 =
18 5 =
LOOK
5x3=15
4x6=24
7x4=28
2x7=14
4x9=36
6x5=30
8x4=32
2x4=8
5x4=20
6x3=18
10x3=3
0
3x3=9
153=5
6x2=12
9x3=27
8x6=48
3x7=21
9x5=45
7x9=63
6x9=54
8x9=72
4x8=32
6x4=24
10x7=7
0