Category: Year 2

Take a look at all the hard work we have been completing in Year 2 on the Julia Donaldson book “Zog”. We have completed a retell of the story Zog carefully thinking about our use of punctuation and writing clear sentences which start with capital letters and finish with full stops. We have also completed some dragon shape poetry focussing on creating and identifying rhyming words. Finally in PSHE we talked about what our aspiration would be to win a golden star just like Zog. We wrote our aspirations on our very own golden stars.

Today we looked at the changes that take place in the season Autumn. We learnt that during autumn, the days get shorter and there is less sunlight; this is because the sun is further away from the Northern Hemisphere. We also discussed that the days start to get colder because of the sunlight being weaker, the leaves start to turn bright colours and fall off the trees, animals begin storing food for the winter and that there are many festivals which are celebrated and food is harvested. We went on an autumn walk and collected leaves from our Woodland. We then used these leaves and created our very own autumn pictures of hedgehogs. We chose hedgehogs because hedgehogs hibernate through autumn and winter. They collect lots of berries and eat them all before rolling themselves up tightly into a ball and falling asleep in deep the leaves.

In RE we have been focussing on beginning and endings. As a class we discussed the meaning of the words “beginning” and “ending” and spoke about some of the beginnings and endings that we have experienced. Lots of us said that we had experienced a beginning of welcoming a new baby into the family, starting a new year group, starting a new hobby. Some of the endings we discussed were moving house, leaving schools and even leaving the country we lived in. This week we have been learning about the religion Sikhism and how a new year is celebrated as part of a beginning. We will be moving onto looking at how names are used and given in Sikhism, what happens at a Naam Karan ceremony and what our very own names mean!

In our topic lessons we have been learning about the United Kingdom. We have been looking at the countries in England then we focussed on the counties and cities that are in England. For the next couple of weeks we will be focussing on the Capital City of England, London. Take a look at this video clip that we watched today and see if the children can tell you some facts about London that they have been learning.

This week we are starting a new unit of writing work inspired by Julia Donaldson’s book ‘Zog’. Zog is a story about a little dragon in training. The problem is that he’s not very good at breathing fire and capturing princesses. Luckily for Zog there is a princess on hand who nurses his injuries and volunteers to be captured so Zog can get his gold star. Today Zog started his journey in the Year 2 classroom in his very own egg. Over the next few days we will watch the egg hatch! There are lots of very excited children eagerly waiting for Zog to hatch and join our Year 2 class!