Year 2 Book Map 2024-2025

Term 1

We are starting the year reading 'Marv and the mega robot' by Alex Falase-Koya. This is a book is about a boy whose super power is kindness and his "big heart", teaching us many important qualities as people. It has been chosen to enable conversations around these qualities as we settle into Year 2, but also due to the high-level vocabulary which can be taken into our writing lessons. If you would like to read the blurb, please click here.

Term 1

We are using 'Emma Jane's Aeroplane' by Katie Haworth to inspire our writing.

We are writing a character description, a diary and a changed ending to the story. To help us do this, we will be learning about adjectives and spelling past tense words with an -ed suffix.

In our humanities learning, we will also write some short biographies about famous people linked with flight.

A big focus for us this term is capital letters and full stops. We know that the word I needs a capital letter, as well as names of people and places. We are practising our letter formation to make sure we do not have capital letters in the middle of words by accident. 

To help at home, practising writing lower and upper case letters would be beneficial. Children may find it helping to trace over some of yours to gain the appropriate size on a line. 

Year 2 Maths Long Term Plan

Term 1

Number and Place Value

We will be building on our Year 1 knowledge to help us understand numbers to 100, including estimating where numbers are on a number line if some of the numbers are not shown. We have looked at how we can use number facts we know to answer similar facts with larger numbers. 

To help at home, you could talk about how many tens and ones are in a number, practise writing numbers in digits and words, and practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.

In school, the children will start to move towards a pictorial form of dienes, which means drawing the number of tens and ones in a number. This will be an important skill when moving into calculations with numbers.

Please also continue to regularly practice your Number skills using Numbots. Your child's log in details can be found in their reading record.

Term 1 and 2

Addition and Subtraction

We will be slowly building up to adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers, for example 45 + 37 or 63 - 26.

We will learn to do this with dienes, so that the children have a method of drawing to help them each time they are given a question. This method links to place value, making it easier to understand, and helps with making the jump to mental methods. 

Term 1 - Why Can't Animals live everywhere? How Do I know if something is alive?

We will start by talking about things that are living, non-living and dead, which will involve classifying a lot of objects into the three categories. 

We will deepen our understanding of animals, habitats and microhabitats, by talking about how we will only find animals in the places they are suited to. Food, water, shelter and air are all identified as things that a living thing needs to stay alive, and will be discussed in relation to these habitats. We will work practically by looking at minibeasts and their microhabitats around school, as well as conducting experiments where we can learn more about how animals keep warm and dry. 

We have been trying really hard to add labels to our drawings.

To help at home, please talk about the plants and animals that appear around while you are travelling somewhere, and why they have chosen to live or grow in that habitat.

Term 1- How has air travel changed over time?

To answer this history question, we will look at different transport types and then the forms of flying in chronological order. We will talk about the different parts of a plane, so that we can also talk about how they have changed since being invented. We will learn about many important people, including Lilian Bland, who was born in Maidstone!