Money Money Money!

Well done for all your hard work this half term :-)

Above are some photographs of our jumps that we have been practising in Gymnastics this half term!

This week in Numeracy we have been learning about money. We learnt about why we need money, how to add coins together, how to find amounts and how to find change.

In Literacy we have been looking at poetry and we looked at lots of different types of poems and thought about the features of a poem. We wrote our own funny poems.

Next term in Design and Technology we will be making our own Explorer vehicles out of junk materials so please bring in any old food packaging i.e. cereal boxes, cardboard tubes, plastic containers etc for us to use.

We also have our Explorer day coming up when children will be invited to come into school dressed as an explorer and we will spend the whole day exploring our school! More details will be out soon!

We hope you have a lovely half term and will see you back at school on Monday 28th February.

Mr. Merchant and the Year 2 team

China Week!

This week we were very busy because it was China week! In Numeracy we learnt how to count to 20 in Mandarin. We also had a go at counting backwards too which was a little more tricky! We had a go at some addition and subtraction calculations using Chinese numbers as well as some word problems with Chinese numbers. We also looked at special shape patterns called Tangrams. We had to use the shapes to copy some patterns. Take a look at the pictures and see if you can guess what the pattern is of.

In Literacy we listened to some stories told by a special Chinese storyteller called Tony. We learnt how to write our names in Chinese as well as write a Chinese factfile about ourselves.

In P.E we learnt a traditional Chinese martial art called Tai-Chi.

We had great fun and learnt a lot about China and the Chinese way of life.

Data Handling

This week in Numeracy we have been looking at Data Handling.

Mr. Merchant asked us the following question;

How could we find out 2M's favourite drink?

We came up with the idea of creating a tally chart to collect the information and then some of us presented it in a block chart and some in a bar chart.

We found out that Coke is 2M's favourite drink as most peopled said that they liked it. The least popular drink was water.

Test your data handling skills by playing the game below:

Click here to test your Data Handling skills with this fun game!

Can you complete the 'Really hard' level too?!