Weekly news

It has been a very busy week in year 2.

In English, we thought about our Power of Reading Book, Grendel. We designed and drew our own monsters to use later in the term in our own story. We focussed on adjectives and noun-phrases to describe our character.

Scary, hairy monster.

Fluffy, spotty monster.

Sparkly, quiet monster.

On Thursday we then looked at our monsters and added more adjectives and gave our friends some ideas too. We then learnt about the suffixes –ful, -est, and –ly. Using our knowledge of suffixes, we wrote a character description about our monsters.

In maths we have been learning about fact families. We chose three numbers and created a bar model. Using this bar model we wrote 4 number sentences, two addition and two subtraction.

6 + 4 = 10

4 + 6 = 10

10 – 4 = 6

10 – 6 = 4

In DT we continued our scienfic learning about melting. With this knowledge we made rice crispy cakes and even counted them in groups of three!

On Wednesday we had our first trip of the year to Norwich Synagogue! It was very exciting and we learnt lots of new facts about Judaism. We were lucky enough to take part in a mini Shabbat and even got to taste the Challah bread and grape juice! We also had the opportunity to explore the synagogue and see inside the arc to where the torah scrolls are kept in their special jackets. Some of us tried on a Kippah and prayer shawl.

Notes and Reminders

Please collect small items of recycling over the holiday such as yoghurt pots, milk tops, bubble wrap and interesting paper or material. This will be part of our art lesson where we will make our own monster to inspire a creative writing task.

Please continue to practise the spellings in your books over half term. There are no new spellings to learn but please continue the words you already have.