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Year 2 - Butterflies

Year 2 Butterflies

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Welcome to Butterflies class page!

Our Class Teacher is Miss Theobald - otheobald@inspiream.org.uk 

Alongside Miss Theobald, Mrs Holden will teach the children - jholden@inspiream.org.uk

Mrs Jayapal is our 1:1 Teaching Assitant. 

Forest School is on a Monday afternoon. Children should bring in their Forest School kit every Monday.

PE is on a Wednesday afternoon. Children should come into school dressed in their PE kit. 


What are we learning this term?

 

Main Experiences 

Circle of life - In this science experience, the children are learning about food chains and the way that living things obtain their food. We will be focusing on bees and how much our lives depend on them. The children will create a bee hotel for their outcome, to try to attract bees. 

Harmonious Harvest - In this music experience, the children will be learning to play different instruments, considering pitch, tempo and rhythm. The children will learn to immitate a song which will be perfomed at the Harvest Festival. 

Come away with me - In this Geography experience, the children will be learning about the world. This will include oceans, continents and climates. The children will be learning about different locations in the world and for their outcome will be recommending where to go on holiday. 

Discrete Experiences

English - We will be focussing on the story of Bumblebear. The children will be learning how to write narratives, focussing on expanded noun phrases. 

In Reading - Pupils will continue with their Read, Write, Inc. phonics sessions. Children in guided reading are focussing on the story of River's Tail by Simona King and The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. 

Maths- Pupils will learn about place values to 100. We will also be learning to add and subtract. 

PE - This term our PE focus is netball. We will learn how to throw and catch through drills and participate in netball games.

RE - In RE we are focusing on the creation story. We will be learning about how the bible teaches Christians that God created the world and everything in it. 

Wellbeing - This term's wellbeing focus is focused on understanding feelings. Focusing on the alibility to describe a wider range of feelings and what children can do if they feel them. 

How can you support at home?

Please talk to your child about their learning. Key knowledge that the children need to know is detailed on the launch pages below. 

 

Recommended book list - Year 2

Salty dogs – Matty Long

Don’t look in this book -  Samuel Langley-Swain

Gorilla – Anthony Browne

Dr Xargle’s book of Earthlets – Jeanne Willis

The legend of Spud Murphy – Eoin Colfer

Mr Majeika – Humphrey Carpenter

Jinnie Ghost – Berlie Doherty

I was a Rat; or the Scarlett Slippers – Phillip Pullman

The day the Crayons Quit – Drew Daywalt

Tuesday – David Wiesner

Beaver Towers – Nigel Hinton

A royal lullabyhullabaloo – Mick Inkpen

Triangle – Mac Barnett

Fungus and the Bogeyman – Raymond Briggs

Mr Wobble and the Waitress – Allan Ahberg

The Adventures of Captain Underpants – Dav Pilkey

The Dunderheads – Paul Fleischman

The man whose mother was a Pirate – Margret Mahy

Pirate School: Just a bit of wind – Jeremy Strong

The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me – Roald Dahl

Mog Time Treasury: Six stories about Mog the Forgetful Cat – Judith Kerr

Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed – Michael Rosen

Mr Wolf’s Pancakes – Jan Fearnley

Gobbolino the Witches Cat – Ursula Williams

The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton

Clarice Bean, That’s me – Lauren Child

The Story of Babar – Jean de Brunhoff

Nim’s Island – Wendy Orr

Fluff the Farting Fish – Michael Rosen

The Tear Fish – Carol Ann Duffy

How to live forever – Colin Thompson

Press Here – Herve Tullett

The Penderwicks – Jeanne Birdsall

The Dragonsitter – Josh Lacey

Learning Experiences 2023-2024

Dear Earth

We are starting off year 2 by learning all about food chains! We are going to be focusing in on a particular area by looking at how climate change is affecting food chains around the world.

We are going to be studying the text "Dear Earth" by Isabel Otter. In this story, Tessa learns all about the wonderful world we live in and uses beautiful descriptive language to describe how outstanding it is. We will be recreating our own versions of Dear Earth but changing them to inform others about the devastating impact of climate change on food chains. The best 3 stories from each class will be chosen to be read aloud in our informative class assembly we will be holding to educate the rest of the school about this problem.

 

Harmonious Harvest

We are beginning our new experience of "Harmonious Harvest." We will be learning about some key musical techniques including pitch, dynamics, tone, duration and rhythm. We will be using all these new skills to imitate a piece of music and perform this at our Harvest Festival service on Thursday 12th October in the church together with Dragonflies class.

Experience 1 - Circle of Life

In this exciting experience, children will be learning about food chains and how living things obtain their food. We will be focusing on bees and how our lives depend on them. We will create a bee hotel to try to attract more bees. 

Our Hook:

For our Hook we went to the farm to see the bees and look at how they are kept. Miss Gleeson spoke to use about the life cycle of a bee and where they lay their eggs.

Our Outcome:

We will create bee hotels to attract more bees.