Autumn One 

We welcomed the children back after the summer break with the Color Monster by Anna LLenas. By using this book we looked at and discussed our feelings and things that made us feel in different ways. 

Science 

We are looking at animals and including humans. We will be revisiting the children's learning from year one about animals and building upon this. They will be thinking of life cycles, hygiene and exercise and what we need to survive. 

Art 

We will end the half term by looking at the artist Romero Britto, where we will look at his style and recreate out own art pieces. 

Maths 

Our first unit will be place value to 100, building on what the children learnt in year one. They will be looking at how a two digit number is made from tens and ones, using objects to represent it, comparing objects and numbers. 

English

The Selfish Crocodile is our first book that the children will look at in year two. We will pick out new vocabulary, retell the story, write a description of the crocodile and innovate our own story.

Within our writing we will be thinking about:

• capital letters and full stops
• joining and as a conjunction 
• expanded noun phrases eg. a fluffy, white cloud