Week 1 (7.9.20)  This week the children are looking at the story "Dont eat the Teacher" by Nick ward. The children will use the text to creat rules for Samm shark and out own classroom rules. Habdwriting- intruduced to cursive handwriting- focu s on letter "a" Week 2 (14.9.20) This week the children are looking at the text "Back to School Rules" by Laurie Friedman. the children will continue to discuss the classroom rules created last week focusing on the order of importance and how they should be presented in the classroom. Habdwriting-letter "C" Week 3 (21.9.20) This week the children will begin to look at the features of instruction texts- children will be leaning about featuers including: title imperative verbs instruction order bullet points things we need the children will take part in a range of activities to indentify these featuers in different instructional text and to use imperative verbs correctly. Children will begin to write their own instruction texts based on the glitter bottles we made last week. Week 4 (28.9.20) This week the children will cntinue to create their own instructions for glitter bottles using all the featuers introduced last week. The children will also be assessed on writing a set of instructions independently for a daily activiy e.g washing their hands. Week 5 (5.10.20) This week the children will focus on the difference between fiction and non fiction texts. Children will complete sorting activities and begin to be introduced to the featueres of a nonfiction text including: contents page headings/subheadings photographs/diagrams index glossary Week 6 (12.10.20) This week the children wil focus on the features listed above for nonfiction texts and begin to understand what each feature is used for within the text. Week 7 (19.10.20) This week the children will design their own posters to explain non fiction features. | Week 1 (7.9.20) One more/less and two more/less- children will complete a range of activities both independenlty and adult led based arund working out number more or less than a given number up to 20. Interactive game link  Week 2 (14.9.20) Counting- this weks activities will encourage orral and phyiscal counting of objects up to 50. Children will be encouraged to count a range of objects up to 50, read and write numbers up to 50 independently. Interactive game link  Week 3 (21.9.20)
Place value- this week we will be looking at place value of 2 digit numbers up to 50. the children will be encouraged to red and write a range of 2 digit numbers upto 50 and state the value of each digit using tens and ones. e.g 24- 2 tens and 4 ones. interactive game line Week 4 (28.9.20) Place value- this week children will continue to look at place value and focus on partitioning numbers into tens and ones- most children will continue to work with numbers to 50 some children will be challenged with biffer numbers. interactive game link  Week 5 (5.10.20) This week children will be revisiting all the activities ccovered so far in preperation for assessments next week. Week 6 (12.10.20) Assessment week- This week the children will complete 2 formal assessments based around the place vaue topic taught this half term. Week 7 (19.10.20) This week we will recap odd and even numbers from last year as this flagged up as something to look at during assessment week. intteractive game link  | Week 1 (7.9.20)  This week the children are looking at the book "The Huge Bag of Worries" by Virginia Ironside. While reading this text the children will disuss a range of methods the character and ourselves can use if we feel worried. Children will design their own woeey monster and create a worry box to keep any worries they have inside. Week 2 (14.9.20)  Mindfulness- This week the children will take part in a range of activities linked to mindfulless including yoga, making our own gilliter bottles and creating soom autumn doodle art pictuers. Week 3 (21.9.20) Be yourself- this week the children will start to loook at the topic "be yourself" the children will discuss things that make us special before talking about make others special. The main focus will be for children to understand that its ok to be different. Week 4 (28.9.20) This week the children will continue with the topic "Be yourself" but will mve focus to discuss feelings and how they affect us both on the inside and the outside. Week 5 (5.10.20) This week is "Kindness week" in year 2. The children will take part in a range of discussions and activities based around what it means to be kind and how we can show kindness including a kindness poster compertition and looking at synonyms for the word kind. Week 6 (12.10.20) This week the children will returen to the "Be yourself" topic and focuse on the aspect of "change" children will discuss changes in the life up untill this point including starting nursery/school new siblings moving house ect the children will discuss the different feelings they experiance during times of change and look at ways of dealing with these feelings. Week 7 (19.10.20) This week the children will finish off the "Be Yourself" topic focuing on their own thoughs and opinions and how they express these to other people. |