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Teacher – Helen Jones

HLTA       – Elsa Lazri

Year 2: Term 2

Some Like it Hot

 

Science: ANIMALS/HUMANS

  • Know that animals, inc humans, have offspring which grow into adults.
  • Find out & describe basic needs of animals, inc humans for survival.
  • Describe the importance for humans of exercise; eating the right amounts of different food and hygiene.

DIGITAL DATA: Use Purple Mash Pictogram to make a pictogram showing results of class surveys on favourite foods

Create simple pictograms using softwareScience: PLANTS

  • Observe and describe how seeds & bulbs grow into mature plants.
  • Find out how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy.

DIGITAL MEDIA: Take digital photos of growing plants, print and sequence or add to a template in Purple Mash 2 Publish

Take digital photos for a purpose, review/retake

SCIENCE VOCABULARY:  grow  growth  move  have young  diet  variety  germ  healthy  unhealthy  exercise  salty  sweet  (stages associated with a life cycle – e.g. caterpillar/ pupa/ butterfly)

SCIENCE VOCABULARY:  seeds  bulbs  water  light  warmth  cold  measure  temperature  healthy  grow

History: THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON

  • Review what materials homes were made from in the past.
  • Know what happened in the Great Fire of London.
  • Know why the fire spread so fast and stayed alight for so long.
  • Investigate how we know what happened in Great Fire of London.
  • Look at how the Great Fire of London changed ayout of London.
  • Evaluate what we have learnt about the Great Fire of London.
  • Know why the Great Fire of London was an important part of the history of London.
  • Know why we remember Samuel Pepys.
  • Use Samuel Pepy’s diaries to learn about Great Fire of London.

Geography: THE EQUATOR

  • Locate the equator on a map.
  • Identify hot areas of the world in relation to the equator.
  • Use maps, globes and atlases to locate the equator.
  • Locate the North and South Poles and know their proper names.
  • Identify the cold areas of the world in relation to the North and South Pole.
  • Review what was learnt about the seasons and weather patterns and compare to the seasonal patterns of the equator.

DIGITAL RESEARCH: Explore the globe using Google Maps Staelite view and Map view – locate the poles and equator

Navigate websites and online tools using buttons and menus

HISTORY VOCABULARY: sources  evidence  factors  ember   ashes

Timber  thatch  diary  narrow   century   bakery   monument  cart 

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY: equator  Arctic  Antarctic  North  Pole  South Pole  patterns  weather  temperature  climate   freezing

CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR THE MORE ABLE –THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.

  • What 5 questions could you ask Samuel Pepys to find out more about the Great Fire of London?
  • Rank factors that led the fire to spread in order of importance.
  • List the positives and negatives about the Great Fire of London.
  • Look at a modern-day map of London and colour in the areas the fire hit.

DIGITAL RESEARCH: Explore Pudding Lane and the Monument using Google Street View – take a screen shot and print

  • Locate specific images on a website and record

CHALLENGE ACTIVITIES FOR THE MORE ABLE – THE EQUATOR.

  • Use a map and order the countries the equator runs through according to size.
  • Create a collage of things you would find at North/South Pole.
  • Plan a trip to a country the equator runs through – what would you take with you and why?
  • Which country that the equator would you most like to live in and why?
  • What would be the positives and negatives of living in a country which the equator runs through.

Art: ARTIST STUDY – CLAUDE MONET

  • Learn about the artist Claude Monet.
  • Develop colour mixing – focus on red and yellow tones.
  • Describe some of Monet’s paintings – such as ‘The Houses of Parliament’ and ‘Sunset.’
  • Recreate ‘The Houses of Parliament’ using oil pastels.
  • Paint on canvas.
  • Use oil pastels and acrylic paint.
  • Develop observation skills through looking at a painting and exploring different types of lines.

D.T: MOVING PICTURES (DISCRETE UNIT)

  • Cut along different lines including straight and curved lines.
  • Use a hole punch.
  • Insert paper fasteners for card.
  • Experiment with levers and sliders to find different ways of making things move in a 2D picture.
  • Use the technical language – lever, pivot, slider.

Music:

  • Use voices creatively by singing songs, chants and rhymes
  • Play untuned instruments musically.
  • Listen with concentration to a range of high quality recorded music.
  • Experiment with sounds using interrelated dimensions of music

P.E (follow the Val Sabin scheme of work)

Games, gymnastics and dance

R.E: (Please follow Southwark agreed syllabus)

Why did Jesus tell stories?

  • What makes a good story?
  • What kind of stories did Jesus tell?
  • What can we learn about characters in a parable?
  • What other stories did Jesus tell?
  • Why did Jesus tell stories?
  • How do we know Easter is coming?
  • What is Easter and why is it important?
  • What does the bible tell us about Easter?
  • What happens on Ash Wednesday?
  • What are the events that happened on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday?
  • How do we feel when we hear what happened to Jesus?
  • What can we learn about Jesus’s death?
  • What other symbols are associated with Easter?

Computing: CODING, PROGRAMMING AND COMPUTER GAMES

  • Understand and create simple everyday step-by-step algorithms.
  • Use simple commands to control the movement and actions of a person or onscreen object.
  • Use symbols fort direction, distance and turn in a simple program or sequence of actions.
  • Explore games and simulations with a drag/drop and basic variables.
  • Identify obvious errors and correct them.

Entitlement and enrichment: London transport museum/ Kew Gardens/ visit around local park/ visit to Surrey Docks farm/ visit to London Zoo/ visit Brockwell Park miniature railway

Topic writing links: (please teach during Friday’s literacy lesson and work in topic/Science books

  • Write a diary about the Great Fire of London.
  • Write a letter of apology from the maid who started the fire.
  • Write a description of the fire,
  • Write an explanation of why the fire started.
  • Send a postcard from a hot/cold place.
  • Write a recipe.
  • Keep a plant diary.
  • Create a healthy menu.
  • Write a simple fact file about Monet.
  • Write a description of one of Monet’s paintings.
  • Create a story based on the moving picture made in DT.

Literacy books which link to the topic:

  • Charlie and the Great Fire of London
  • Avoid Being in The Great Fire of London
  • The Polar Bear Son.
  • Good Night North Pole.
  • Lost and Found.
  • Nothing Ever Happens at The South Pole.
  • Polar Bear, Polar Bear – What Do You Hear?

Y2 Term 1a Days to Remember and 1b Where in the World

Y2 Term 2 Some Like it Hot

Y2 Term 3 Nursing Heroes

 

 

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