Year 2 Update Week 7

• Tuesday 9th October & Thursday 11th October – Parent Consultation evenings.
• Friday 12th October – Dress Casual Day (Community Chest). Last day of half term. School finishes 3pm.
• Monday 22nd October – School resumes
• Tuesday 23rd October – Talk to Year 2 students by a representative from ‘Plastic Free Seas’

Please remember to sign up for a parent consultation appointment with your child’s class teacher.

UOI 1 Round up

The children enjoyed reflecting on their experiences at Penfold Park. They have written a set of instructions on how they made their healthy sandwich and summarised their understanding of place value by representing, comparing and rounding 3-digit numbers.

UOI 2 Sharing the planet

To provoke the children’s thinking around waste, they examined the contents of a ‘fake’ bin to see what people throw away.

The children have also been having lots of fun on the playground and enjoying the slight drop in temperature!

Central idea: 

People’s choices can impact the environment

Lines of inquiry:

1. Types of waste (form)
2. What happens to waste (change)
3. Choices people make to sustain the environment (responsibility)

Next week the children will be inquiring into the types of waste we produce, where it comes from and where it goes. The children will be looking around the school to find out what waste we produce and how it is sorted. The children will be using the Puppet Edu app to record this information and learn how the app works.

Place Value

Central Idea: The operations of addition and subtraction are related to each other (and are used to process information to solve problems)

An inquiry into:

• How we solve problems using addition and subtraction
• Mental and written strategies for addition and subtraction
• The language and symbols of addition and subtraction

The children will be working towards the following outcomes:

• Recall addition facts for numbers to at least 20
• Model addition and subtraction of whole numbers
• Represent and solve addition problems (including real life and word) involving 2 digit numbers, using appropriate strategies.
• Represent and solve subtraction problems (including real life and word) involving 2 digit numbers, using appropriate strategies
• Use estimation to check the reasonableness of answers to calculations

The children will complete a pre-assessment task based on adding and subtracting numbers to 20.

The children will explore number facts by using a variety of manipulatives such as Numicon and number lines. They will also play some games.

The children have new tasks to complete on addition and subtraction. Please spend some time on it each week.

In reading, the focus is self-monitoring and summarising and synthesising. The children will develop their understanding of reading for meaning. They will be continuing to use SCOOP to help them retell the stories they have read.

• Learn the fourth list of 8 words.
• In their spelling book, they will need to write each word in a sentence. One has been done already as an example.
• Complete one activity from the boxes to help them learn their spelling. This does not need to be seen by the teacher.
• Please sign the bottom of spelling card to show that they have done these things.