Miss Crosby’s Year 2 Class
Miss Crosby Year 2 Class
On this web page you can find out about all the exciting things taking place in Year 2!
Teacher: Miss Crosby
Email: ecrosby@discovery.victoriousacadmies.org
Teaching Assistant: Miss Slinger
Please follow the link here to our meet the teacher presentation.
Term: Autumn 1
Our Learning this term:
Maths: This half term we are looking at place value and partitioning numbers within 100. We will start to add and subtract numbers within 100.
English: This half term the children will work on different text types: a narrative and a newspaper article. We will focus on telling stories from alternative viewpoints and then gathering factual information for the news paper articles.
Science: We will be looking at living things and how to group living and non-living things in different ways. We will also know that a living thing eats, breathes and moves by itself.
History: We will be learning and discovering about the life of Walter Tull and what made him a good role model throughout his football and army careers.
Art: Year 2 will look at making art from collections of objects and how they can inspire different forms of art.
RE: Our focus this term will be on what Christians believe the good news is the Jesus brings. Focussing on what Christians may believe their God is like. We will then discuss how we have developed our worldviews through our learning.
Computing: We are looking at what technology can be used for in and out of school and the specific roles they have.
Music: In music the children will be looking at the song Wonderful World and an orchestral piece called Finalandia. We will discuss how both pieces make us want to move our bodies and if we want to move our bodies different for different parts of the song.
PSHE: We are looking at our Very Important People and how they can help us to be safe and look after us. During this half-term, we will have a workshop by the NSPCC to discuss how to feel safe.
General Class Information
Reading: Each week, the children read a range of texts through their learning. They also take part in whole class or small group Reading sessions where their decoding and comprehension skills are developed with a different reading skill being focused on each day.
Home reading is to practice and consolidate their fluency, expression and comprehension. Children still being taught phonics will take two books home – 1 decodable book and 1 reading for pleasure book. The decodable book is for the children to practice their fluency and expression as well as to show their understanding through questioning. The reading for pleasure book is for the children to share with an adult and to promote a love of reading. If they are past being taught phonics they will be sent home 1 colour banded book to practise decoding and comprehension as well as 1 reading for pleasure book. Your child has been asked to do a piece of work in their reading journals once a week to show what they have read. This will show how they have interpreted parts of the text and how it has sparked imagination.
One child per half term will be nominated for being the Reading Hero for their class based on their commitment to home reading. The child will be chosen based on the evidence seen in their reading record and in class. If your child is chosen to be the class Reading Hero they will be given a prize and a certificate and acknowledged in Friday’s good work celebration assembly.
Homework: there is a parent workshop around our new systems of homework on the 22nd of September at 2:45.
PE:
PE is twice a week on a Wednesday and Thursday.
Your child will participate in sports lesson and dance/gymnastics lesson every week. It is normally expected for children to have a full PE kit kept in school at all times.
Children should not be wearing any jewellery including earrings for PE. If your child does wear earrings, please could you ensure they are taken out before school on Wednesdays and Thursday please.
Snack: Snack is to be a piece of fruit or a cereal bar. No chocolate, crisps or sweets are allowed