An African Adventure Year 2 – Term 1 Literacy Phonics – continuing to learn about letter patters and alternative pronunciations and spellings. Applying our phonics skills to our reading in order to develop fluency and accuracy when reading aloud and in our heads. Developing our speaking and listening skills through role-play activities linked to the story of The Lion King. Reading for pleasure and enjoyment. Demonstrating understanding of what we have read by discussing with our friends and asking and answering questions. Ensuring we use capital letters and full stops in our sentence writing. Using connectives. Building our vocabulary when exploring the story of The Lion King and Handa’s Surprise and using WOW words in our writing. Writing for a range of purposes, including writing letters to children in Tanzania. Science Animals unit of work focussing on the pond habitat. Identify and name a variety of animals in their habitats. Observing creatures. Gathering and recording data. Using equipment to help. Learning about lifecycles. Observing and sketching the local environment looking for seasonal changes. Maths Counting up to 100 objects by grouping. Consolidating our knowledge of addition and subtraction facts to 10, 20 and 100. Counting in steps of 2, 5 and 10 and recognising multiples. Understanding the value of any number in a 2 digit number by partitioning. Using number lines for addition and subtraction problems. Beginning to record our methods. Estimating and comparing the weight of different items. Visualising and identifying properties of 2D and 3D shapes. Continuing with learn-its and securing number facts for Big Maths Beat That. Whole school Maths week. An African Adventure PE Football (Thursdays) – external coach. Dance – African dance moves – using our bodies to effectively show expressive movements. Evaluating our performances. RE Enquiry Question: Is it possible to be kind to everyone all of the time? Exploring the teaching’s of Jesus and how Christians try to live by his example. Geography Using maps, atlases and globes to locate continents and countries. Finding Tanzania. Asking questions and finding answers using a range of sources. Looking at a range of features such as landscape and climate. Art/DT Sketching skills – African animals. Patterns and colours. Designing and making a smoothie using fruits from Handa’s surprise story. PSHE Our Happy School (Learn 4 Life) Establishing rules, routines and expectations. Link with charity – EdUKaid. Computing Using technology to create digital content (videoing) Manipulating and editing video content. Music Listening to African music – identify instruments and playing simple rhythms. Year 2 – Term 1