Welcome to Hedgehog Class (Year 2)

 

 

             

 Mrs Zalman (Class Teacher)               

Mrs England (Teaching Assistant) 

Miss Graham (Monday afternoons)

If you have any questions or need to contact us, please send any emails to: 

hedgehogclass@maybury.surrey.sch.uk

Important Class Information

• Our PE days are Wednesdays and Thursdays. Children must wear PE kit on these days.
• Home learning will be pages in the CGP books and will be posted in the Jellyfish Home Learning section. Books go out on a Tuesday and should be brought back in on the following Monday.
• Reading must be completed at least 3 times a week with a comment in the reading planners. Dojo points will be awarded for reading and taken away for not reading enough.
• Spelling tests are on a Monday.

Our Learning

This is what our week looks like in Hedgehogs class:

Our class learning

December

This month, we have been writing instructions. We started with how to make a jam sandwich. Mrs Zalman had all the ingredients and equipment ready and we gave her instructions on what to do. We learnt that using clear verbs in our sentences was very important! We forgot to tell her to open the jam so she couldn’t get any out! We forgot to tell her to use the knife to scoop the jam so her hands got very messy!

We used our important imperative verbs and some time connectives to write instructions to make other food too.

In Science, we looked at recycling and what happens to our recycled plastic. We sorted items into different types of recycling or reusing and what needed throwing away. We also learnt about the harmful effects global warming has on our planet.

In DT, we have been learning about wheels and axles. We researched, planned and built our own vehicles, focusing on moving wheels and axles. We also evaluated our projects, thinking about what we could improve and what things worked well.

                                    

November

This month, we have been learning a new topic in PE – hockey! It has been very fun using our hockey sticks to control the hockey ball. We have also been practising dribbling and passing to our partners.

In Computing, we have been making music. We have been using Chrome Music Lab to create patterns, play with tempo and experiment with pitch.

Our DT topic is also going really well. We have been exploring different vehicles, specifically looking at the wheels, axles and chassis. We then explored how different wheels and axles combinations would work and used this to help us design our own vehicles.

In Literacy, we have been writing stories based on ‘Giraffes can’t dance’. We planned stories using different African animals and different reasons why they could not dance. We also consolidated our learning on adjectives by planning to use these as well.

 

October

This month, we went to Brooklands Museum for our History topic. We had been learning all about the history of the race track, the building of aeroplanes in the aircraft factory and what the land is used for now. On our trip, we saw lots of aeroplanes. We got to go on the plane of a Sultan and saw his velvet chairs. We pretended to be workers in the factory and completed different activities, for example, sewing the material for the plane, bending the metal and designing the planes. We also saw some old race cars and motorbikes.

   

In P.E, we have been practising our team building. We worked on communicating carefully with our team members to complete tasks in a better way. We were also learning about dribbling and practised lots with netballs.

For International Week, we were busy learning all about Germany. We looked at lots of different interesting places to visit and wrote postcards pretending we were there. We also cooked delicious gingerbread men and decorated them with icing.

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September

We have been really busy since coming back to school this month. The children have settled in very well and are adjusting quickly to the new expectations, working at tables and doing their home learning. Please remember to read to your child at least three times each week.

In Literacy, we have been reading Hairy Maclary and thinking about adjectives. We have rewritten the story, made changes to it and are working on writing our own story about animals causing chaos! The children have had some great ideas about what could happen in their own stories. We started by sorting animals into whether we would see them on a farm or at a zoo and then used them for our new stories.

In maths, we have been learning about place value and number bonds. We have worked a lot with different resources to show the tens and ones in a number. Please practise number bonds to 10 and 20 at home as they are such a key part of maths knowledge.

In Art, we have been studying Paul Klee. We discussed our opinions about his paintings and how he uses tessellation. We then practised mixing colours to find the right tint to match his painting.