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Year 2 - Butterflies
Year 2 Butterflies
Welcome to Butterflies class page!
Our Class Teacher is Miss Theobald - otheobald@inspiream.org.uk
Miss Egarr and Miss Miles are our 1:1 Teaching Assitants.
Farm Education / Forest School is on a Thursday afternoon. Children should bring in their Forest School kit every Thursday.
PE is on a Tuesday morning. Children should come into school dressed in their PE kit.
What are we learning this term?
Main Experiences
The Circle of Life
In Year 2, our experience has focussed on the Circle of Life, where children explored the connections between living things. We have learnt about food chains, discovering how predators and prey depend on one another for survival. Through exciting discussions, activities, and research, the children developed a deeper understanding of how animals and plants are linked in nature. To showcase their learning, each child will create an informative fact file about a chosen farm animal, demonstrating their knowledge of its role within the food chain and its importance in the wider ecosystem.
Hook: To launch our Circle of Life experience, Mrs Spellman brought in a chicken from the farm, which immediately captured the children’s curiosity. The chicken became the perfect hook to explore how animals fit into food chains. Together, we discussed what chickens eat, who might eat , and where they belong as consumers. Year 2 loved having a real-life connection to their learning and it helped them understand producers, consumers, predators, and prey in a memorable way.
How can you support at home?
Please talk to your child about their learning. Key knowledge that the children need to know is detailed on their launch pages.
Encourage your children to read at home regularly and model reading to them too. Discuss what your child is reading and find out about their reading habits - what do they like and dislike?
Continue to practice phonics sounds with your child, especially when writing.
Recommended book list - Year 2
Salty dogs – Matty Long
Don’t look in this book - Samuel Langley-Swain
Gorilla – Anthony Browne
Dr Xargle’s book of Earthlets – Jeanne Willis
The legend of Spud Murphy – Eoin Colfer
Mr Majeika – Humphrey Carpenter
Jinnie Ghost – Berlie Doherty
I was a Rat; or the Scarlett Slippers – Phillip Pullman
The day the Crayons Quit – Drew Daywalt
Tuesday – David Wiesner
Beaver Towers – Nigel Hinton
A royal lullabyhullabaloo – Mick Inkpen
Triangle – Mac Barnett
Fungus and the Bogeyman – Raymond Briggs
Mr Wobble and the Waitress – Allan Ahberg
The Adventures of Captain Underpants – Dav Pilkey
The Dunderheads – Paul Fleischman
The man whose mother was a Pirate – Margret Mahy
Pirate School: Just a bit of wind – Jeremy Strong
The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me – Roald Dahl
Mog Time Treasury: Six stories about Mog the Forgetful Cat – Judith Kerr
Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed – Michael Rosen
Mr Wolf’s Pancakes – Jan Fearnley
Gobbolino the Witches Cat – Ursula Williams
The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton
Clarice Bean, That’s me – Lauren Child
The Story of Babar – Jean de Brunhoff
Nim’s Island – Wendy Orr
Fluff the Farting Fish – Michael Rosen
The Tear Fish – Carol Ann Duffy
How to live forever – Colin Thompson
Press Here – Herve Tullett
The Penderwicks – Jeanne Birdsall
The Dragonsitter – Josh Lacey
Experience 2 - Harmonious Harvest!
Harmonious Harvest
We are beginning our new experience of "Harmonious Harvest." We will be learning about some key musical techniques including pitch, dynamics, tone, duration and rhythm. We will be using all these new skills to imitate a piece of music and perform this at our Harvest Festival service on Wednesday 16th October in the church together with Dragonflies class.
For our hook we were lucky enough to have some professional musicians come in to show us how to play their instruments. This included a ukulele, electric guitar and piano.
Our Outcome:
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Experience 1 - Circle of Life
In this exciting experience, children will be learning about food chains and how living things obtain their food. We will be focusing on bees and how our lives depend on them. We will create a bee hotel to try to attract more bees.
Our Hook:
For our Hook we went to the farm to see the bees and look at how they are kept. Miss Gleeson spoke to use about the life cycle of a bee and where they lay their eggs.
Our Outcome:
We will create bee hotels to attract more bees.
Experience 3 - Come away with me!
In this experience we will be learning about the world. This will include continents, oceas, countries and climate zones. We will also be learning about sentence types (statements, commands, questions and exclamations). We will use this learning to create holiday adverts with adults in our school community.
Four our hook, Mrs Baxter came to ask for our help to adive adults where they should book to go on holiday, based on different requirements.
Our outcomes:
Experience 4 - Coming Gnome for Christmas!
In this experience we will be learning how to use clay to create Christmas gonks. We will design and create our own gonks to gift to the elderly at Christmas time.
For our hook, we will be taking part in a clay workshop, which will teach us lots of the skills we will need to know.
Experience 5 - Boogie Woogie Nativity
This is a very exciting experience where we will be performing our KS1 Nativity. We will learn about how to use our voices to create melodies and will learn how to perform on a stage.
For our hook, we watched 'The Nativity: Danger in the Manger' to see get us excited about performing our own Nativity.
Our Outcome:
We performed our Nativity to an audience of 200 family and friends!
