Welcome to Elm Class
In Elm Class we have 23 friendly Year 2 children who love having lots of fun learning new things. Our teacher is Mrs Cooke and she is a very happy, caring teacher who plans lots of fun and exciting lessons and activities. In Elm Class, we are also very lucky to have a helpful teaching assistant called Miss Chester who makes us smile and helps us in lots of different ways. Some of our favourite lessons are Art, Maths and RE but we love our themes too! We love to try our hardest and blow our teachers away with our super work.
We love learning lots of new things and we are super independent! You will always find us working hard whether that is in a lesson or in continuous provision. We love using our areas in our learning environment to practise and consolidate our skills independently. In our classroom, we have lots of areas- a role play corner, a reading corner, construction, writing, maths, science, computing, phonics and creative area. We are lucky enough to have a brand new outdoor area where we can follow our interests and learn whilst having lots of fun exploring too and continue our learning in fantastic spaces outdoors! Come and join us and take a look at our super learning around our classroom.
Please learn more about life in Elm Class by viewing our Meet The Teacher Presentation.
Elm Class Curriculum
Please view the planning documents below to see lots of the exciting things we learn about in Elm Class.
Homework
Homework is set on a Friday and is handed in by the following Wednesday in Elm class. We have a pick and mix homework which we do each week but we get to choose which order we want to do them in. Homework is handed in on a Wednesday and then marked and handed back out on a Friday.
Elm class have a spelling test fortnightly on a Friday and they have a spelling investigation in which the children learn to explore a spelling rule. Then following this is a list of words for the children to learn which are then tested the following week. We love to beat our last score every week!
What have we been up to?
In Elm Class this Autumn term, we have been getting to know our new teachers and friends and learning the new routines and expectations in our new class now we are a little bit older!
We love our new theme “Construct it!”. We have been discovering inventions and the seeing what new information we can find out them and their inventors. We have become amazing historians!
In Science, we have been learning about materials and their properties. We have been learning what materials things are made from. We have then learnt to feel and describe them and even sort the materials according to their properties. This has raised some brilliant questions which we have then used to conduct investigations. Such as “ Are all fabrics absorbent?”
In History, we have become budding historians by sequencing inventions (transport) in chronological order. We have considered why transport is important and why this has changed through the years. The children have been learning to use language about the passing of time to explain how transport has changed then and now.
In Computing, we have been learning all about algorithms and how you can program beebots and turtle logo to perform a specific set of instructions. The children have been using the correct directions and codes and predicting the outcome. We will be learning to debug and correct errors in our codes too!
In English, we have been reading ‘Wendel and the Robots’ by Chris Riddell which has inspired us to make up our own stories with new characters. We have been learning how to make predicitions and skim and scan to answer questions carefully from a text. We have even started to develop our inference by becoming detectives to look for the best evidence to support what we think. We have also been collecting super language- especially adjectives and verbs which have then used in our own writing. We have been learning all about conjunctions and trying super hard to use different types of conjunctions in our writing. We are looking forward to writing our own robot explanation texts too!
In Maths, we have been learning about place value! We have been looking at reading, writing, ordering and comparing numbers to 100. We have been comparing 2 digit numbers (in the context of the length of dinosaur bones) using < > = symbols. We have been learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s too by singing some fun songs too! We have really enjoyed learning to represent numbers in different ways using numberlines, beadstrings, base 10, jottings and even arrow cards!
We have really enjoyed thinking about our favourite places in RE considering why they are special to us and what makes them so special. We have started to consider how the church is a special place for Christians and comparing it to sacred buildings in other faiths- looking for similarities and differences.