Welcome to this week's Year Two blog. 

Happy Bonfire Night! If you are watching any fireworks tonight, remember the Fireworks Code!

What we have been doing this week

This week in our writing lessons, the children have started looking at the story of The Bear and the Piano. You can see our old friend, Mr Antell, reading it here. The children have written a letter to the bear to help him decide whether or not he should leave his friends in the forest to go to the big city! They have been learning about contractions (such as isn't, we'll, don't etc.) and writing using conjunctions. The children have also been learning about homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently, such as hair and hare).

In maths, the children have been using Dienes cubes to add and subtract two 2-digit numbers. Take a look at the anchor charts in the photos below to see more, and please take a look at our Knowledge and Skills Organiser to see our teaching approaches.

We have completed our art topic, focusing on observational drawing and shading. Take a look at the Knowledge and Skills Organiser to see what your child has been learning in this topic. They completed their topic by doing some fabulous still life sketches. You can see some of these in the photos below.

What we are learning next week

Next week in literacy, the children will be writing their own story of The Bear and The Piano. They will looking at the use of different sentence types, particularly exclamation sentences (What a beautiful day! How amazing this car is !  What a tricky question this is! What an evil witch she was!).

In maths, we will be using the column method to add and subtract, linking to our work using Dienes cubes this week, as shown in our Knowledge and Skills Organiser.

We will be starting a new history topic, looking at the history of our school. Please see the Knowledge and Skills Organiser to find out more. Also, if you went to Upton Infant School yourself and have any memories, please add them to our Facebook thread.

Please see next week's spellings below. Set A are common exception words (known as 'tricky words'). Set B are near homophones, which children be learning about in their phonics sessions.

Wow Work

Once again, we have had some fantastic learning across the curriculum. See some of the super work in the photos below. 

The Woodpeckers continue to top the Doodle Maths chart, earning themselves yet another extra play! Well done to Jacob C who was the top individual Doodler this week.

The Foxes have earned extra playtime for having the most children who have read three times this week. Good work!