Year 2 Curriculum Overview - Spring Term 2 2015
Literacy
Numeracy
We will be reading and writing recounts
We will solve problems involving
and information texts. We will develop
comparing numbers.
our use of adjectives and connectives. We
will work to improve our accuracy in
using full stops and question marks.
We will continue to improve our
handwriting and the presentation of our
work. We will continue to choose
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between ways to spell common words
We
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the same
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at leaders
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rain,lives
play,
and
extend this to considering
game.
different religious leaders. We will
identify the qualities of a leader and
how we can learn from this to lead
others.
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We will recognise and use £ and p symbols,
combining coins to make a given value.
We will find totals and change. We will
tell the time to five minutes. We will
investigate 2D shapes on the surfaces of 3D
shapes.
Science
We will be studying habitats and the plants
and animals that live in them. We will sort
living things according to their features
and characteristics and identify how they
are adapted to living in their habitat. We
will suggest questions and ways to find
answers.
Our topic for this half term is The Earth – Our Home (habitats)
We will:
 Know about the features of contrasting habitats (pond, rainforest, desert, polar
regions)
 Sort living things into groups, identifying how they are similar and different
 Plan and conduct simple investigations with help, making careful observations and
Year 2 Curriculum Overview - Spring Term 2 2015
Resources that might help:
Literacy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
Lexia
Maths
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/
http://www.sumdog.com/
skoolbo
Science
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1science.html
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=62
How you can help at home:
Literacy
Read your child’s book with them each week and return their book folder every Wednesday please.
Share books with your child – model how to read with expression; talk about how a character’s words and actions
give us clues to how they are feeling. Stop during reading and ask your child to predict what could happen next.
Pick out words and talk about why the author used them (eg ‘shouted’ instead of ‘said’). Read non-fiction books
and discuss how they differ from fiction books.
If you have a computer, encourage your child to work on Lexia or Skoolbo.
Numeracy
Practise number bond facts for each number to 10 and 20.
Count on and back in steps of 2, 10, 5 and 3, identifying odd and even numbers.
Count out coins, play shopping and let your child pay when you go shopping. Read times on the clock.
Talk about the numbers and shapes your child sees in everyday life – house numbers, car registration plates,
timetables, TV times, times of day for different activities, weighing and measuring, shopping, bus numbers etc.
If you have a computer, encourage your child to work on Skoolbo.