Class: 2

Theme: My Playful Colourful  World

Speaking and Listening:

• Begin to listen to others and to stories with sustained concentration;
• talk about their personal experiences with confidence;
• ask and answer questions relevantly.

Reading:

• looking at poems and stories with a familiar setting e.g. Traditional folk stories, etc;
• sharing Big Books, stories, poems and non-fiction books;
• recognise letter names and the sounds they make.

Writing:

• writing their full name independently and forming school script letters correctly;
• write sentences independently and demonstrate some use of capital letters and full-stops;
• Begin to spell commonly used words;
• Begin to write stories with a sequence.

Mathematics

• Counting within 20
• Addition and subtraction within 10
• Measuring length using non-standard units
• Identifying 2D and 3D shapes and talking about their properties
• Making patterns with colours and shapes
• Sorting
• Number bonds to 10
• Time-o'clock & half past the hour
• Handling Data

Science Topics

• Investigating how toys are made and how they move
• Making a collection of toys that move in various ways
• Testing how toys move over different surfaces
• Forces

Other Topics

• Using graphics programs to paint and draw
• Discovering toys through the ages. Making a ‘Class Toy Museum'
• Special places-at home and the church
• Use Welsh Greetings, simple role-plays, colours & numbers
• Investigating and making toy vehicles
• Sing and maintain a steady beat, recognise simple rhythm patterns, play instruments appropriately.
• Dance & Gymnastics
• Investigating the school and its grounds and the looking at the local area.

Parent's Role

• Continue to support and listen to your child read books and other reading material sent from school e.g. flashcards (beginning to learn how to spell these),  letter/sound cards and school books. Share other books e.g. fiction, non-fiction (information books) and poetry. Send reading material to school in a water-proof bag everyday.
• Continue to support your child with handwriting and writing at home e.g. school script handwriting (lower case when writing their name), writing personal accounts, diaries, lists, sentences to match pictures drawn, story writing etc.
• Continue to support your child at home with numeracy exercises e.g. counting, number games, number rhymes, sorting , simple addition and subtraction (within 10) etc. 

General Guidance

Please could you ensure the following:-

• that your child brings some tissues to school if they are suffering from a cold;
• that your child has an appropriate change of clothes for P.E. e.g. shorts/joggers, T-shirt, trainers or daps (please make sure footwear is the correct size);
• that your child has a coat in school, even if the weather may look fine for the day;
• that if your child is absent for any reason, a phone call is made to school explaining the reason for absence;
• that your child arrives on time for the start of the day.

  Your support of the above will be very much appreciated. Thank you.