Year 2 Dragonflies
Welcome to Dragonflies class page!
Our Class Teacher is Miss Sutherland - ksutherland@inspiream.org.uk
Mrs Sathya is our Teaching Assitant.
Forest School is on a Tuesday afternoon. Children should bring in their Forest School kit every Tuesday.
PE is on a Wednesday afternoon. Children should come into school dressed in their PE kit.
What are we learning this term?
Main Experiences
Coming Gnome for Christmas - In this art experience, the children will be learning how to use clay to create festive gonks. The children will participate in a clay workshop with an expert sculptor. They will then build up the skills to create their own gonks which will be gifted to the residents of Lavender Fields for Christmas.
Boogie Woogie Nativity - In this music experience, the children will be learning how to perform a Nativity. We will be focusing on what makes a good performance and will focus on using our voices to create melodies.
Discrete Experiences
English - We will be focussing on the story of The Jolly Christmas Postman. The children will then write narratives based on their locality.
In Reading - Pupils will continue with their Read, Write, Inc. phonics sessions. Children in guided reading are focussing on the story of The Twits by Roald Dahl.
Maths- Pupils will learn about addition and subtraction. They will then move onto shape, learning the properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
PE - This term our PE focus is dance. We will be focusing on dances that will be performed during our Nativity.
RE - In RE we are focusing on Incarnation and the Christmas story.
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.
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
Harmonious Harvest
In this experience our key concept is performance. We will be building upon our learning in Year 1 and will be focusing on pitch, dynamics, duration, rhythm and tone. We will experiment with these concepts on different instruments. Our outcome is to perform using what we have learnt at our Harvest Festival.
There's no place like home
In this science experience, the children will be creating habitats for local wildlife within forest school. We will need to learn about the needs of different wildlife, in order to provide a perfect habitat for them to live in.
Motion and Motive
In this experience, we are focusing on the sculpture work of Alexander Calder. We will be learning about how to manipulate and join wire. We will also learn to draw and cut shapes accurately. Once we have learnt these skills, we will use them together in order to create our own sculptures in the style of Calder.
