Welcome to Jellyfish Class (Year 2)

 

 

             

  Mrs Zalman (Class Teacher)               Mrs England (Teaching Assistant) 

          

     Mrs Beagle (Thursday afternoons)   Mrs Gregg (Special Needs Assistant)

If you have any questions or need to contact us, please send any emails to: jellyfish@maybury.surrey.sch.uk

Important Class Information

• Our PE days are Tuesdays and Fridays. 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 Jellyfish class:

Our class learning

October

This month, we have been finishing off lots of our topics. As a brilliant end to our History topic, we went on our trip to Brooklands Museum. We saw lots of planes including Concorde, parts of a Wellington Bomber and we even got to go on the plane of a Sultan! We had a tour of the different cars, including antique cars with no steering wheels and McLaren racing cars! We clocked in to our shift at the aircraft factory and went round completing different jobs (carpentry for joins, fabric shop for testing materials and the tinsmith for making model planes). The children remembered lots of facts from our lessons and were able to ask and answer lots of questions.

 

We have been learning about question marks and exclamation marks in Literacy and have been using them in our writing about Hansel and Gretel. We then write our own stories based on finding a magical place that was a trick.

For International week, we were learning about Germany. We wrote postcards about an imaginary visit to a famous German landmark and then draw beautiful pictures of them. We made delicious gingerbread men were we measured the ingredients, rolled the dough, cut the gingerbread men and decorated them.

   

September

It has been a great start to Year 2 this month! The children have adjusted well to the fast pace and high expectations!

In Literacy, we have been reading Hairy MacLary’s Rumpus at the Vets and rewriting the story. We ordered the events to see how much we could remember. We have changed the animals and how they caused chaos and then used the theme of chaos to write our own stories about either a farm or a zoo. Our grammar focus has been on expanded noun phrases with the children coming up with amazing adjectives!

 

In Art, we are learning about Paul Klee and have been copying and evaluating his paintings. We used white paint to make tints of colours to try and match to one of his paintings.

   

In Science, we are learning about animals, including humans. So far, we have talked about the different animal groups, life cycles of different animals (frogs, butterflies and ducks) and then skills learnt at different stages of the human life cycle.

For our Maths learning, we have been working on place value by identifying tens and ones shown in different ways. We have used place value charts, part-part-whole models, base 10, bundles of straws and ten frames.