Welcome to Year 2 - Pine

Mrs Willer

Pine Class have been super busy!

In literacy, we have started our new story, The Owl and the Pussy-cat. So far, the children have discussed the main characters, explored the themes of the poem, and created sentences as a short piece of prose using a variety of conjunctions. The children have been learning to spell more words with contracted forms and have added suffixes to spell longer words, including -ment, -ness, -ful, and -less. We have also used the ‘talk to the hand’ prompt to generate questions, which they used to role-play interviewing the Owl and the Pussy-cat about their adventure and impending marriage.

In Maths, we have been learning about mass, capacity, and temperature. The focus of this unit is not only to identify the mass of objects in grammes or kilogrammes but also to compare the mass of two or more objects. The children have been using the language “heavier” and “lighter” alongside inequality symbols to compare mass. They have learned to accurately read a range of scales to measure the volume of liquid in a container. The scales became gradually more complex, and the children have developed strategies to work out the volume shown.

In Science, the children have been looking at a wide range of real seeds of all shapes, colours, and sizes. We have discussed the term ‘germination’, and the children have learnt about the right conditions for this process to take place. This week, we are carrying out an investigation to observe seed germination. The children were provided with a set of instructions demonstrating how to set up the investigation. They were encouraged to make verbal predictions based on their prior knowledge. After setting up the investigation, the children have been observing the seeds daily and recording any changes they see.

In Art, the children have been having fun exploring shape and form. Last week, they created ‘roses’ using modelling clay and paper plates. They were all very pleased with their finished artwork.

Going forward:

• Maths: Fractions
• Literacy: Use rhyming words to create a poem
• Science: Unusual plants

Spring Term 2025

Click on the links below to see what the children in Year 2 will be learning in the Spring Term.