Year 2
Topic Plan Context – What do we Know? And pre-learning experience A look at plants, fruit and vegetables that we have in our country. What would we like to find out? What do we know about African produce? Maths Length, mass weight Addition and subtraction Fractions Position and direction Time Lots of mental strategies – doubles, halves, number bonds, addition and subtraction, times tables, number sequences.
Science Where do fruits like bananas and mangoes grow (Handa’s surprise)? How could we grow our own fruits? What do we need to remember if our plants are to grow? Which plants in Africa and the UK? Investigate and observe plants need growing. Design & Technology and Art Construction: Will you hit, pluck or shake your African instrument? Explore, design, make, evaluate musical instruments. Food technology: Design of products to sell to raise money for Africa. Choose tools and materials, develop ideas and plans. Develop our chocolate business for Easter.
Starting point – Hook and Wow! Talk from Miss Shaw about South Africa and what she saw there. Looking at Topical fruits and vegetables Food tasting fruits – visit from ASDA man.
English Recounts/ letters (1 week) Writing up our science experiments. Riddles and poems about African animals (2 weeks) Poems about African animals (2 weeks)
The Learning Challenge Question Where would you like to live, England or Uganda?
Writing Opportunities Writing about famous person - Mo Farrell, Ussain Bolt, Dr Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks Writing up results of growing plants in science
History Famous African figures Dr Martin Luther King Rosa Parks Hussain Bolt Mo Farrell Recount the life of a famous person Use resources to research - internet and books Music Create music in response to different starting points I can choose sounds to create an effect I can use symbols to represent sounds Keep a steady pulse Rhythmic patterns using an instrument. Order sounds to create a beginning, middle and end Use African instruments to make songs and sound collages