Wow, it is October already and we are a month into Year 2! The weather is changing and there are definite signs of Autumn in the air. 

We have continued to look at Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers in our writing. We have been considering how we are all different and how this makes the world a more interesting place. We have also looked at diversity within the animal world. We used pictures from the book to write sentences about what the people are doing. We have focused on using adjectives to add description to make our writing more interesting and informative.

We loved listening to Louis Armstrong’s song ‘What a Wonderful World’ and enjoyed listening to David Attenborough recite some of the lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYXBJmrsxZU

We created our own versions of the poem and practised reading them aloud to the class – we did a wonderful job!

Next week we are looking forward to reading some Traditional Tales and starting to consider what makes them a traditional story.

In maths we have continued to look at the place value of digits and also discussed how to use the greater than and less than symbols to order numbers. You might want to watch this video that we watched in class about how to use the symbols. You might like to play this game: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/574/Comparing-Numbers-using-Dienes

In art we have continued to look at buildings and structures – this week we focused on the Burj Khalifa and enjoyed spotting the shapes we could use to help us reproduce our own versions. We also looked at Dubai and where this was located on a map. We were amazed at how high it was but couldn’t believe how tiny it looked when we compared it next to Mount Everest!

We have continued to learn some new songs and find the pulse and beat in them. You might want to share this with your adults at home – penguins 

Thank you to everyone who worked so hard on their homework, we were so impressed with the work you have done, keep it up!