On Thursday, we were treated to a visit from the author Chris Darkin. He began his visit by explaining how he goes about creating a book and then came into our classes and shared some of his books with us, allowing us to ask questions along the way. He was thoroughly entertaining and inspired us all to create characters and a plot for a story. More information about him and his books is available here Christian Darkin – Author/Animator (wordpress.com)

After Half Term, our Literacy work will be based around the Roald Dahl book ‘Matilda’. We will be learning about Miss Honey by looking at the adjectives chosen by the author.

In Maths, we will be looking at division by sharing as well as doubling and halving. The key vocabulary is share, group, divide, odd, even, multiple, double, total ,equals, multiply, half. If you want to get a head start, here are a few links that should be useful

What is division? – BBC Bitesize

Sharing – Maths -Learning with BBC Bitesize – BBC Bitesize

We will also be starting a new topic, ‘Safari’! We will learn about the location of Kenya, the animals that live there as well as find out about the Maasai culture. Why not do a little research over Half Term and then bring it in to share with us for Show and Tell?

We hope that you all have a wonderful break and look forward to seeing you back, rested and refreshed!

The Year 2 team

Reminders

Forest Camp on Thursday- Miss Stone’s class

Disco rearranged for Thursday 29th February