Year 2 Friday Blog- 25.4.25

Date: 18th Apr 2025 @ 4:53pm

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Dear parents,

Welcome back! We hope you all had a super break.

Our learning this week in Year 2

English

We have started our new topic (stories from other cultures) with great enthusiasm. Based on the text shown above, we made predictions about what the main character, Lila, might say to the sky when she reached the highest mountain. Using our inference skills, everyone made valuable contributions to our class discussions. We also explained and discussed our understanding of the text, giving opinions and supporting with reasons (e.g. Lila felt sad because…).

Maths

The children have been busy learning to tell the time to five minute intervals. Having used the clocks in the classroom to help us learn, we also looked at clocks that had been reflected in a mirror. The children worked out the times shown on the clocks by looking at the numbers and the hands carefully.

RE

In our RE lesson, we started our new topic about the church. Following a class discussion about places that are special to us, we then went on to answer the following questions:

What words would you use to describe your special place?

How do you feel when you are in your special place?

What do you do when you are in your special place?

Geography

We were all very excited to start our new geography topic, comparing Euxton to Mikoroshoni (in Kenya).We looked at the location of both places, using Google Earth and Google Maps. The children then went on to label the human and physical features of both Euxton and Mikoroshoni on maps containing satellite images. Click on the link below to find out more about our partner school in Mikoroshoni.

https://www.mikoroshoni.com/

Have a look at our gallery to see more photographs of our geography lesson this week.

Homework

Reading - Please read every night. Answer a selection of questions about the thoughts, feelings and actions of any of the characters in your reading book.

Try the prediction activities below.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to spelling frame. Our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 1st May.

Choose five or more spellings and write a sentence for each of the words. Remember to think it, say, write it and then check for full stops and capital letters.

Words to learn this week

Why does the 'c' make the sound /s/ in some words?