Year 2 Plants- Planning and resources Significant scientist study - how did he/she make a contribution to life today? In this lesson children research about the famous scientist Darwin and follow in his footsteps to go on a plant hunt. They match plants to the key from their immediate environment, playground, nature area or the local park. They make notes and annotate their work like Darwin identifying the species of flowers, their shapes, and color, and name. Challenge children to find different types of plants if they are available e.g. herbs, weed evergreen trees climbing bramble nettle flowering edible plant indoor plants Talk about how Darwin traveled the world to find exotic plants in the rainforest’s of the world. We now have some of these plants in UK. See complete unit of work in the shop or link below; https://www.tes.com/resources/search/?authorId=868530&q=plants&shop=rehanafazil

The Tunnel Year 2 Guided Reading Preview If you have used the Into The Forest Guided Reading Pack - Then this is the resource for you to compare stories by the same author. See Full weeks planning available in the shop. Week 1 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tunnel-by-anthony-browne-guided-reading-week-1-12050423 Week 2 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-tunnel-guided-reading-anthony-browne-week-2-12052381 Suitable for year 2 for children working at the expected level and beyond. You can find further inspiration on my insta page as below. @thisisrehanafazil See you there.

Art and Design National Curriculum for key stage 2 Lesson and Plan written for year 3 and 4 Pupils will create a tessellating piece of work using inspiration from Escher. They will use geometric shapes in 2 simple or any other app that has shapes and fill tool colour options. Pupisl will repeat the 2d shapes and try to create an optical illusion of 3d piece of work. Lesson is differentiated 3 ways to suit the needs of different ability pupils in regards to using computing. Pupils will benefit from prior teaching and learning about the work of Escher and designing their own tessellation tiles. These lessons are available in the shop. Check you have suitable software like 2Simple or Googledraw before downloading this resource. This lesson can be differentiated for lower key stage pupils too. Many thanks for choosing this resource and I hope it saves you a lot of planning time.

Shapes Resource suitable for KS1 Suitable for Year 1 and year 2, understanding properties of shape. Name common 2d shapes and sort into given criteria. More able to be able to sort into more than one criteria, e.g color and number of sides. Record into a given table. This resource has been differentiated fer low ability children so they can identify common shapes in the environment.

This document supports teaching pupils how to edit writing following a few simple steps. Editing is not just about changing spelling and checking grammar. Improving writing includes revising sentence structure, improving vocabulary, ensuring it is effective and interesting to the audience/reader. Watch this simple video using the link below to find out how to; Ask questions about your first draft of writing (what’s missing?) Add (tier 2 vocabulary, adverbs, and expanded noun phrases and figurative language) Takeaway (poor words, description) Replace (sections, for improved vocabulary, better synonyms or short sharp sentences). Read Aloud (ongoing) Peer Assess (ask a friend to read and make suggestions) Repeat (process above). Use a slip lined paper to re-write the second draft and replace in margin or asteria the paragraph and rewrite below original

Ice Palace poetry planning Text PPT to show dialogue between old lady and Ivan Free Verse Example text This resource is for teaching pupils to write poems inspired by characters in a book. This resource helps pupils to write a free verse using inspiration from the old lady that helped Ivan on his quest. It encourages pupils to use personification, patterned text structures, and use their imagination. Resource caters for SEN and EAL pupils with visuals and key vocabulary as well as the extract from the text. Pupils will be able to write other poems as Starjik and Ivan following this experience. See shop for further examples of poetry as other characters in the book. If you would like to see top tips for editing narrative from the Ice Palace

New assessment guidelines for writing 2018 English Curriculum at end of KS1 Working at Working towards Working at Greater depth Suitable for all teachers moderating English writing and making teacher judgements. Suitable to benchmark across classes and across phases. Also a suitable checklist to match against borough expectations and exemplifications. A must for moderated schools to keep evidence.

Year 2 Planning with differentiation and high order activities for literacy to support the new English curriculum. This is a suitable activity for creative writing in the traditional stories unit or as a short write for character description. Children will have the opportunity to develop and use expanded noun phrases, similes, suffixes, contractions and conjunctions to extend ideas and sentences. A good extension for year 2 is to incorporate a twist in the story and so the good characters (the three billy goats) become bad and the troll becomes good. Can be used before or after the little red riding hood unit also available by the same author on TES. There is also a grammar features success ladder included. It is designed for children to be able to self assess and peer assess when editing, and up-level their own work to meet the expected standards. Suitable for year 2 to achieve 'at' and beyond - Greater Depth standard in writing.

Year 2 Maths Number This game is suitable for children working at expected and greater depth in numeracy. It supports adding multiples of ten to any given number. Children can work independently in a group during mental oral starter. The game is engaging and allows children to demonstrate their mental maths skills application. Teachers can assess using AFL how children reason their answers whilst playing this game. The game is suitable for year 2 children and it supports mastery maths.

Year 2 Maths - Number This powerpoint is to support the new national curriculum objectives for Year 2. It is a fun engaging way for children to demonstrate mastery level in number in all four operations. Children have to estimate the answer by rounding first. After this, they write a simple sentence showing their understanding and reasoning skills. This powerpoint can be used to consolidate rounding and estimating as well as introducing it. The work is differentiated for children working within the expected standard, and those working at greater depth in mathematics. Children will be able to show their number skills in this broad and challenging activity.

Punctuation signs with corresponding bands for each band. Includes supporting vocabulary e.g when each punctuation should be used e.g commas in a list or apostrophe for possession or apostrophe for words with contracted form. This is an excellent visual and reminder for students and will support children to work at the expected band and at greater depth in KS1 and above. Excellent way of children self assessing and or editing. Can be easily adapted to suit all key stages. Very bright and engaging resource. Useful to be laminated and arranged to look like a pyramid. Band 2 Working below: full stop at the top of pyramid. Band 2 Working At: full stop, question mark, exclamation mark and apostrophe for contraction. Band 2 Greater Depth: as above including apostrophe for possession and commas in a list.

Year 2 Maths Number -Shapes and Fractions Finding different fractions including 1/2, 1/4, and 2/5, 2/3 within a shaped pattern. Children working at greater depth can answer questions like which one is more 2/4 or 2/8 of this chocolate bar. They can also solve problems in a fun and engaging way to find equivalent fractions. This work is suitable for Mastery level in year 2 and is adapted for the new maths curriculum. Children can be challenged to write the number sentences for working out different fractions they need to shade e.g 2/4 of 8 is … 8 divided 4 x 2 (so they need to shade 4 out of 8 boxes). Differentiated activities also included for children working at and below Band 2.

Comparing amounts using < > and = in the context of length , mass and fractions. Children are encouraged to use jottings to solve each side of the equation. They then use the correct symbol to balance the equation. Suitable for year 2 mastery level although the activities are differentiated and easily accessible to all. Year 2 New Maths Curriculum.

This is fun and engaging way to work with money for young children. They can show reasoning with number and application of skills. In this problem solving task children are using money and showing a system. How many different ways can you make the amount using 2 coins. Differentiated for low ability with scaffolding provided and less amount of coins to use. Higher ability to use bigger amount and three coins. Additional money work consolidates number e.g. giving change from an amount using a number line to find the difference (and counting forward from the smallest number). Children working at the expected standard in the new maths curriculum can use a ruler as a substitute for a number line. Suitable for ks1.

Year 1 and 2 Maths Investigation with shape and number This is a fun, engaging and creative lesson with shape. The lesson has been successfully used to apply knowledge of shapes in a year 2 setting. Children can begin to think of problems systematically. They think of the best way to start, that there is more than one answer, that they can use number doubles and counting on to support them. Children are encouraged to find different ways to make a 9 sided shape family. They need to be secure with properties of simple 2d shapes previously such as sides of regular shapes. Work can be differentiated by giving children regular or irregular shapes. Very stimulating activity for all learners. The activity can be easily adapted for both year groups.

Year 2 Grammar washing line in cursive script - for all sentence types. These are posters of all the sentences types that are in the expected standard for English. They are a good reference for teachers and children. The posters have definitions and show examples of how to use them in context. Ideally they should be enlarged onto A3 paper, laminated and hung from a visible area for all to access. Alternatively they can be made into a handy booklet for children to access as a resources to up-level their work by editing gaps. Suitable for year 2 and the new curriculum.

Year 2 Maths Number A bundle of resources to teach place value using practical resources and equipment, and pictures to show what each number represents. The children move onto comparing numbers using < > symbols. They also understand how to compare three given numbers using more than, less than, tens and units . Finally, the complete number sequences in 2, 3, 5, from any given number forwards and backwards. The resources are differentiated and well organized with graphics and tables to support learning. Most of the resources ask children to explain and reason e.g how they know which number is greater to show they have mastered the skill.

Grammar washing line in cursive script suitable for the year 2 curriculum in writing. This is all the definitions of grammar features that are in the expected standard for English. They are a good reference for teachers and children and can be placed on working walls or washing lines. The posters have definitions and how to use them in context. Ideally they should be enlarged onto A3 paper, laminated and hung from a visible area for all to access. Alternatively they can be made into a handy booklet for children to access as a resources to up-level their work by editing gaps. Suitable for year 2 and the new national curriculum.

Friendship assembly for KS1 and lower KS2. Can be easily adapted. This assembly has an introduction to ‘friendship’ by a game . There is a list of different words for ‘friend’ in several languages for children to guess what the assembly is about. This leads onto children identifying what is good friendship and a play that can be read as a story to show what true friendship is.

Explore properties of shape through this fun activity. The resources shows how children can make different animals using a tangram template. The children explore how to make an animals with the given 9 shapes and one rule- at least one side of each shape must be touching. After children have had a go, some may find it challenging so they can be shown the animals slide after. This lesson would be suitably linked to growth mind set challenges. There are also slides that show different ways of questioning knowledge about 2d shapes SATs style.