Dahl Class Year 2
Welcome to Year 2 Dahl Class!
Year 2's day is from 8:45am - 3:15pm and they come through the Key Stage 2 door.
Year 2 can also attend Maths Club in the school hall from 8:20am.
You can use this page of the website to find out about Year 2's weekly timetable, what we have been learning about during the current term and find out what each week's homework is.
Homework and Reading books should be in school everyday. The Reading books will be checked everyday and the Homework folders will be checked on a Friday. Wednesday will also be PE days so please ensure that your child comes to school with their hair tied up, trainers in their bags and if possible earrings are removed.
We will also add details, pictures and links to the fun activities we have been taking part in.
We hope the children will have a fantastic year with us in Year 2.
If you have any questions please do come and see us.
Miss Orpin and Mrs Manwaring.
Find Year 2's Yearly Plan, Timetable and Long Term plans below:
Homework!
Check out some of our favourite Maths games to play!
Check out some of our favourite Phonics games to play!
Term 1
Term 1 Topic Maps:
This term in English we are reading:
"The Jolly Postman" by Janet & Allan Ahlberg.
"The Last Wolf" by Mini Grey.
Please DO NOT read these books with your children as it will ruin the slow build up and surprise we use in our English lessons.
If you would like to read a similar book ,or a book to aid their learning around our topic, to your child then this term I would recommend:
- "Katie Morag Delivers the Mail" by Mairi Hedderwick.
- "Dear Mother Goose" by Michael Rosen.
- "Dear Fairy Godmother" by Michael Rosen.
- "Mixes Up Fairytales" by Hilary Robinson
- "Each Peach Pear Plum" by Janet & Alan Ahlberg.
- "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?" by Lauren Child.
- "Beware the Storybook Wolves" by Lauren Child.
- "I am so Strong" by Mario Ramos.
- "Goldilocks and Just the One Bear" by Leigh Hodgkinson.
- “My First Nursery Collection” by Tony Ross.
- “Mr Wolf’s Pancakes” by Jan Fearnley.
- “The Way Home for Wolf” by Rachel Bright and Jim Field.
- “Wolf Won’t Bite!” by Emily Gravett.
- “The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig” by Eugene Trivizas and Helen Oxenbury.
You could also read any of these Stories:
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Hansel and Gretel
- Cinderella
- Sleeping Beauty
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- East of the Sun
- West of the Moon
- Aladdin
- The Little Mermaid
- Peter Piper
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Three Little Pigs
- Mother Goose
Or any of these rhymes:
- Old King Cole
- Incy Wincey Spider
- There was an Old Woman who lived in a Shoe
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- Simple Simon
- There was a Crooked Man
- Little Jack Horner
- Eeny, Meeny, Miny Mo
- Humpty Dumpty
- Jack and Jill
- The Queen of Hearts
- Sing a Song of Sixpence
- Little Miss Muffet
- Pat a Cake
- Baby Bunting
- Three Blind Mice
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
10th September 2024- In English today we took part in a conscience alley activity to help us decide if Baby Bear should forgive Goldilocks for all of the bad things that she did to him.
12th September 2024- In Maths today we used base 10 resources to explore the tricky Maths topic of complex partitioning. This is when we take a number and split it into two groups to show different ways of making the number.
26th September 2024- In Geography this week we began to develop our atlas skills! We used the atlases to find different countries, cities and landmarks in the UK.
1st October 2024- In PSHE this week we made our own class rules to help us all create a safe learning environment for us all. We then used our thumb prints to create bumble bees to show that we agreed to follow our class rules.
These are our finished Class Rules! We made them into a beautiful garden picture!
3rd October 2024- We performed our first class assembly of the year! As part of our assembly we shared some of our Samba rhythms that we have been learning in Music. Check our below for some sneaky clips!
Check out our first Samba Rhythms!
Check out our second Samba Rhythms!
11th October 2024- In English today we explored some of the exciting verbs from our new story 'The Last Wolf'. We explored what it looked like to pounce, stalk, slither and lurk.
14th October 2024- We took part in a Street Dance workshop!
14th October 2024- In Art we have started to make our Bear Puppets!
18th October 2024- We used scratch art squares to make pictures of Diva lamps and fireworks to celebrate Diwali!
This is our final piece of work. It is going to be hung up in Swanley train station to see! Make sure you go and check it out!
Look at our finished bear puppets! Aren't they fabulous!
We talked about firework safety whilst making our firework scratch art!
