Year 2 - Dormouse Class
Welcome to Dormouse Class
Class Teacher: Miss Hilton
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Ninglekhu
Welcome to Term 4
We had a great term in the new building and Term 4 is looking to be just as fantastic!
Art Week and World Book Day will be focused around the book: 'A Planet Full of Plastic' and we will be creating a big artwork using recycled plastic to go on display in school, to raise awareness about plastic pollution.
English
Our English sessions will be linked to the following books:
Emma Jane's Aeroplane By Katie Haworth
Taking Flight By Adam Hancher
A Planet Full of Plastic By Neal Layton
Writing will continue to focus on punctuation, figurative language, extending with conjunctions and using a range of writing in a range of styles. We will be writing poetry using similes and build our confidence to perform these to the class. We will be acting out our class text using puppets and drama skills to help us to retell the story in our own words.
Phonics
In our phonics learning we will continue to learn the Level 6 sounds to support us with our reading and spelling. If you would like to support your child with this at home, you might find the following video clip helpful:
Click here for a video of the Level 6 Sounds
Maths
Our Maths learning will begin with multiplication and division and go on to length and height.
Learn Your Two Times Table in Rap! | MC Grammar 🎤 | Educational Rap Songs for Kids 🎵
Learn Your Five Times Table in Rap! MC Grammar 🎤 | Educational Rap Songs for Kids 🎵
Learn Your 10 Times Table in Rap! | MC Grammar 🎤 | Educational Rap Songs for Kids 🎵
It is always helpful to us for you to support your child’s learning at home with tasks such as telling the time, money and measurement. We will visit these areas later in the year but if they are already familiar, it is beneficial.
History
Our history enquiry focus is ‘How did we learn to fly?’ This will give the children the opportunity to discover the history of flight and learn about some significant people who shaped the way we travel around the world today.
Why not discover more about the history of flight together by following this link?
History KS2 | Explorers: Amelia Earhart | BBC Teach
The Launch of the First Hot Air Balloon | The History of Science | BBC Earth Science
Notices
- PE will now be inside on Monday afternoon, so please have an appropriate named PE kit and trainers. These can be worn to school and kept on throughout the day.
- World Book Day will be on Thursday 5th March where children are encouraged to dress up as their favourite character and bring in their favourite book to share with their friends.
Home learning will include reading each day and phonics/reading/spelling games on
Twinkl For Web alongside practise TT Rockstars.
If you have any questions, please contact me via DOJO.
Thank you for your continued support.
The Term 4 vocabulary sheets below will help you to know more about what your child will be learning this term.
Please click here to access extra phonics, reading and spelling resources.
Please click here to access links to other useful home learning resources published online.
If you are unsure of any log in details please contact the teacher through Class Dojo or email office@pilgrims-way.kent.sch.uk
Term 3
Welcome to our new school!
This is a very exciting term – our new classroom is finally here and awaiting some hard work!
Our enquiry focus is ‘Our Wonderful World.’ This will give the children the opportunity to locate and name famous landmarks around the world. We will be walking around our local area to locate special landmarks in Canterbury.
Our English sessions will be linked to the following books:
The Boy Who Loved Maps By Kari Allen
Halibut Jackson By David Lucas
Writing will continue to focus on punctuation, description and extending with conjunctions. We will be writing about real life experiences and using our imagination and descriptive writing skills to create our own fancy costumes linked to Halibut Jackson. In our phonics learning we will continue to learn the Level 6 sounds to support us with our reading and spelling. If you would like to support your child with this at home you might find the following video clip helpful:
Click here for a video of the Level 6 Sounds
Art is linked to our map work and there will be opportunities for us to create 3D collages to bring maps to life!
Our Maths learning will begin with Shape and lead on to Money.
It is always helpful to us for you to support your child’s learning at home with tasks such as telling the time, money and measurement. We will visit these areas later in the year but if they are already familiar, it is beneficial.
PE will be inside on Friday afternoon, so please have an appropriate named PE kit and trainers. These can be worn to school and kept on throughout the day.
Forest school sessions this term will be slightly different.
We will have split groups and each group will have 2 weeks each with the last week shared.
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Group A |
Group B |
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14.1.26 |
28.1.26 |
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21.1.26 |
4.2.26 |
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11.2.26 |
11.2.26 |
The children will come to school in their Forest School clothes, but it is imperative they bring their uniform to change into after the session. As you will understand, we want to minimise any muddy clothes in the classroom. Please, please can you remember to pop the uniform in a bag, as well as their clean school shoes.
Home learning will include reading each day and phonics/reading/spelling games on
Twinkl For Web alongside practise TT Rockstars.
If you have any questions, please contact me via DOJO.
Thank you for your continued support.
The Term 4 vocabulary sheets below will help you to know more about what your child will be learning this term.
Please click here to access extra phonics, reading and spelling resources.
Please click here to access links to other useful home learning resources published online.
If you are unsure of any log in details please contact the teacher through Class Dojo or email office@pilgrims-way.kent.sch.uk