English

    Year 2 2020-2021        

Autumn 1

Our English focus this term is a naarative and non-fiction based around the story The way home for wolf, by Rachel Bright. We will be researching animals that we will write a non- fiction page for and then incoroprate them into our own stories.

This week we have been using Talk 4 Write to learn and retell the story through actions. Here is our story map that we have used to help us recall the story and actions.

We have used the story as a stimulus to write a non-chronological report about a animal from the savannah. We researched our animals then organised our facts under different headings to create our plans. We then used the plans to write our own non-chronological reports.

This week we have started to look at riddles. We have been reading riddles to identify the features of them. We have made up our own riddles for objects orally. See the clips below.

Autumn 2

We have been learning about traditional stories. We are looking at the story Little Red Riding Hood. This week we have been freeeze framinig different parts of the story. Here are some pictures

We changed the traditional story for our own version with a story map and then we used this to write our own version of the story. Here are some pictures.

Poetry - T'was the night before christmas

We have been learning the poem by Clement Clarke Moore. We have been looking at the vocabulary he has used and explored the meaning of some of the words we were unsure about. We then write our own poem about If we were St Nicholas. We really enjoyed learning this peom and putting actions to the poem to hlep us remember the poem. We then performed the poem for Mrs Gorrell. See the school Twitter account for a video of us performing this.

Spring 2

Non- Chronological Reports

This half term we have written a book all about Neil Armstrong. We did lots of research first by reading books, looking on the internet and watching film clips.

Summer 1

Wind in the Willows- We have explored the characters in the story and looked at their traits. We learnt the story through Talk 4 write and have then inovated our own version of the story using different animal characters. We then planned and wrote letters to the Magistrate asking him to free Toad.

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Year 1 2019-2020

Autumn 1

Our English focus this half term is traditional tales. We are lookig at Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Gingerbread man. We will be retelling the story. 

Autumn 2

English will be based around the story ‘Funnybones’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We are going to explore the story and this will then lead up to us writing our own skeleton story and some senses poetry.

Spring 1

This half term we are looking at stories from other cultures and Non - Chronological reports. This will link in with our Theme topic about animals.

The story we will be looking at is Tiddalick. This is a Aboriginal 'Dreamtime' story.

We will learn the story through talk for write and perform it using actions before we innovate the story with different animals.

We will be writing Non- Chronological reports about animals. We will read lots of examples and collect information about our chosen animal before we write our own collection of non-chronological reports.

Spring 2

This term we are looking at classical stories and poetry. This is being done based around the story Peter Rabbit.

We will be exploring the characters predicting what might happen next and then innovate the story to write our own.

We will be looking at a poem about Peter Rabbit and will write our own based around the vegetables he steals from Mr Mcgregors garden.