Year 2 - Term 2

Our Unit of Inquiry – Year 2
Life before humans can be investigated through evidence left behind
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Our unit of inquiry will begin by learning about Mary Anning and the role she played in discovering different dinosaurs.  We will be learning about the lives of dinosaurs, such as what they eat and where they lived.  We will also be making our own fossils and cave paintings. 
Our core texts this term are ‘Katie and the Dinosaurs’ and ‘First Facts Dinosaurs’.  We will be looking closely at how facts are written in preparation for our own fact books.  We will also be looking at extending our descriptions in order to write diary entries and letters.  

Lines of Inquiry

• How can we find out about the past?
• What are dinosaurs and how do we know they existed? 
• Who has helped us to find out about the past?  

In maths we will be looking at bonds to 100, extending our knowledge of bonds to 10 and 20. We will then focus on money, including recognising symbols for pounds and pence, combining money to make a particular value, and solving simple problems involving addition and subtraction of money. Towards the end of term we will start looking at making and recognising equal groups, in order to help us with multiplication and division. 
You might like to join in with our learning by…

• Talking about your favourite dinosaur and why. 
• Talking to your child about how we can find things out about the past, even if we weren’t there.
• Making your own dinosaur footprint.
• Learning the different types of dinosaurs (e.g. what they ate, what they looked like) 
• Visiting a local museum (e.g. Maidstone Museum) and have a look at their fossils and skeletons. 
• Thinking about what questions you could ask a dinosaur and why.

 
Thank you for your ongoing support.