Year 2 had fun making constellations out of marshmallows and spaghetti this afternoon!
Year 2 Blog
Enjoy looking at our Year 2 creative learning blog.
Learning the column method
In Maths this year we have been revising place value and using base 10 to look at how many tens and ones in a number. After this, our teachers have taught us how to add and subtract using the column method. It’s been tricky but with determination, we’ve been able to succeed!
Weighing in Maths
Year 2 explored weight and mass today in maths. They looked at kilograms and grams and used balance scales to help us explore heavier than, lighter than and balanced.
Measuring in Year 2
We enjoyed measuring and comparing lengths in centimetres today in maths
Measuring in Maths
We had fun measuring in metres in maths today!
Launch of Year 2 Space Topic
Year 2 enjoyed making alien headwear for Beegu this afternoon. We followed instructions carefully and were really creative!
Times Tables in Year 2
Year 2 have started learning the 2s, 5s and 10s times tables. We’ve learnt that ‘times’ means the same as ‘groups of’.
For example:
3 groups of 2 is 6
3 x 2 = 6
During one lesson we looked at different pictures of objects in groups and wrote the correct multiplication sentence…
Designing sky scrapers in maths
Today we designed our own sky scrapers for Queen’s Hills. Mrs James told us that every day for a week, we could add two windows. In pairs we designed our sky scrapers and wrote addition and multiplication sentences to find out how many windows we would have built by the end of the week. We found out that:
2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 14 windows
7 x 2 + 14 windows
Amelia Earhart
n topic this week, we ordered the photographs chronologically from Amelia Earhart’s photo album. We had to work as detectives and look closely at her face in the photographs. Here are some photographs from our lesson:
Learning all about food miles
Today we learned what food miles are. Then, we created a harvest plate and labelled how many miles the food has traveled to reach our plate in the UK.
