Welcome to Year Two's blog. 

What we have been doing this week

This week in literacy, the children have created their own stories, using the Bear and the Piano as inspiration. Some super stories have been written, including 'The Penguin and the Guitar', 'The Ladybird and the Little Trumpet' and 'The Sheep and the Whistle'. You can see some extracts from the children's writing in the photographs below.

In maths, we have been using the column method and number line to add and subtract, as shown in our Knowledge and Skills Organiser.

In history, we continued to look at Upton Infant School over the last century. We learned about primary and secondary sources.  Please see the Knowledge and Skills Organiser to find out more. 

What we are learning next week

In maths, we will be adding three 3-digit numbers and building on our knowledge of number bonds to find number bonds to 100. You can see more in our Knowledge and Skills Organiser.

In literacy, we will be reading a new story 'The River' (you can see a video of the story here). The children will be using this as inspiration for their writing, retelling the story using a variety of conjunctions. 

We will be starting a new science topic next week. We will be learning about materials - how they are used for different purposes, their properties and how they can be changed. You can see the 'knowledge and skills organiser' here.

Please see next week's spellings below. Set A are common exception words (known as 'tricky words'). Set B are words in which we have used the 'double rule' to add suffixes. 

Wow Work

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

Are you old enough to remember Bryan Adams' 16 week run in the charts? Well the Woodpeckers are trying to challenge his record with their unbroken run at the top of the Doodle chart. They are there again this week...

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