2017-2018
10.7.18 - we were lucky enough to see the flypast to celebrate the centenary of the RAF on their way to Buckingham Palace. Klaudia brought in identification sheets that we used to spot the planes. Thank you Klaudia and the Callegari family.
Today we 'visited' (made) islands in our pirate ships. We used different materials. We learned about the geographical features and created them where we thought they would naturally occur. (Or where the marble ran!) Now we are drawing a bird's eye view of our new islands. Ah me hearties!
Homework for 9.7.18 available here! Our last here homework of Year 2!
Today in maths we solved a multi-step problem and found out there was more than one answer! Sometimes this happens in maths! We had to reason what the largest and smallest possibilities could be too!
Sports Day 2018
Homework for this week available here.
We used our journey sticks to create linear maps and then real maps of Walton! Have a look - the children in Year 2 can now use symbols and maps!
Our trip to Walton and the RNLI! we made journey sticks, played and learned about how to stay safe in the water. A HUGE thank you to all the adult helpers who made the day run so smoothly!
Homework for 18.6.18 available here!
Today is Art Day 2018!
We went to a special workshop to use our STEM and D.T skills. We worked as a team and used so much mathematical language! Martin couldn't believe how much we knew about shapes! We made a giant tower in the playground which Sam compared to the Orbital in London!
after break, we then learned a new skill: pointillism. We focus on our UN Goal 15 - life of the land and the importance of looking after everything on the planet that God so kindly created for us. Here is some pointillism work by Thomas, Elli, William, Sam, Hayden and Eoinn!
Homework for this week here! 11.6.18
This week, we looked at how Jesus taught us how to forgive. We read from the Bible:
Peter came to Jesus and asked, "If my friends keeps hurting him, how many times should I forgive him? Seven times?"
"No, not seven times, " answered Jesus, "but seventy time seven." Based on Matthew 18: 21-22
We then thought about all the ways Jesus has taught us to forgive and we wrote stepping stones for forgiveness. Ellie and Aisling acted it out for us, showing us their angry feelings but then forgiving one another using our stepping stones.
Welcome back after the holidays! Here's this week's homework.
Using art and D.T skills to make desert islands in clay! We used different tools to create textures. We will paint them Friday!
This week's homework available here. Letters have gone home today about our trip in June to the beach!
We have Royal Wedding fever! We designed a patch for our class patch work wedding dress for Meghan Markle! There's a sneaky peak at our dress on the slide show! We then put our design onto fabric and sewed them together!
On Thursday and Friday (10th and 11th May) we looked at art by Turner. We thought about how his work makes us feel, then we use water colours to recreate, or change, his inspiration into collage! I wonder, how do you feel looking at the children's art?
Today, 2.5.18, we learned all about Pentecost and reflected on what it means to us as well as the Disciples at the time!
This week we have been coding our partners tghrough a maze using left, right, straight, 90 degrees and quarter turns!
This week's homework available here. 23.4.18
WOW! Year 2 have been drawing ships as part of our new topic: Land Ahoy!
Measuring in cm and mm outside the classroom
Holiday homework
Do you want to practice times tables at home this Easter holiday? Visit: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables for free games that are tablet compatible!
Celebrating Palm Sunday as a school with a very special visitor! A big thank you to our class photographer - Sam!
We made crosses to celebrate Jesus and the new life Easter Sunday brings! Have a look at our creations!
This week's homework available here. 26.3.18
Exploring symmetry with Numicon
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Our Class walk, 22.3.18 looking for signs of Spring, living, once lived and non-living things!
Today, 21.3.18, we represented non-unit fractions using Numicon. Can you see the relationship between denominators, numerators and the Numicon representations?
We're using our adorable rabbits for descriptive writing tomorrow. I wonder... what do they look like? What do they feel like? Where do they live and what does that look like?
This week's homework available here. 19.3.18
In R.E this week, we have looked at Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday. We looked at what Mark and John wrote in the bible, then acted it out. We made our own palm leaves to lay before Jesus and wave at Him as we shouted 'Hosanna'.
Do you want extra maths to challenge your brain this week? Then have a go at this problem from the White Rose Maths Hub. Can you solve the problem?
Homework for 12.3.18 available here
We are learning a new story for our Pie Corbett English learning - The Greedy Fox! What action is Joe doing?
Homework and overview of the week available here.
Creating dances on another snowy day for:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,
Hosanna in the highest.
Recommended Reading List for Year 2 in addition to the colour banded books in class.
Food Chains outside the classroom!
This week's homework (26.2.18) available here
We learned about food chains today! Here is a good game to play to learn more about food chains!.
This week's homework is available here.
Dancing like animals to coincide with our topic of 'Going Wild'!
Want to do some extra times tables work?
Visit this website and see how many you can do in 1 minute!
Click here for this week's homework
Our trip to Pets at Home 26.1.18! Thank you Emily and Lewis at Pets at Home, the rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, bearded dragons and finally to our parent volunteers. We had a brilliant trip thanks to you!
This week's homework
We became the characters of our English text today - Cat, Bramble and Heron! Here are some pictures of us in action!
Kyle performed his play to the class! Here they are in action!
Our new story from a familiar setting that we are learning is: Cat, Brambles and Heron. This ties in with our theme this half term of Going Wild!
Sharing our favourite books! Our new topic in Come and See R.E is books! We brought in our favourite books, shared them and then made a collage of how books make us feel! Some books made us feel shiny, some books fill our heads with fireworks and other books take us on a wibbly wobbly journey!
We are having a money week this week! If you would like to complete additional homework, this weblink has lots of money games to help your child understand money!
We recapped place value today (3.1.18)and played this game! Click HERE to access the game at home and teach your parents about place value!
Today, 20.12.17, we discussed how God gave us Jesus. Jesus brings us peace and love and we discussed how we will try our hardest to show peace and love at home this Christmas holidays! We can't wait to see you all in January! Enjoy the Christmas break! Miss S, Mrs S and Miss B!
Straw and Order - 2017
Toothless couldn't fly! We helped him today by making levers to control his wings for him!
Inverse - reverse! Look at Elli doing her inverses!
Making advent wreaths - Year 2 now know the meaning of the Advent wreath!
When we came to school this morning, the classroom had been left in a humongous mess! We kept seeing strange things happening out of the window and discovered it was Scarlet the Dragon! We decided to catch her as a team and tell her nicely to "STOP! It's hurting our feelings!" Scarlet apologized and we then wrote amazing instructions on How to Catch a Dragon! Here we are hiding from Scarlet after we set our trap!
Another super day of maths learning ambassadors in Year 2 today! Here Isabella and Klaudia are teaching the group how to subtract on a number line by partitioning and using Numicon! There was a lot to remember and they taught the group really fluently. Well done girls!
Lexi was our Learning Ambassador in maths today! Here she is showing Imogen how to subtract the tens, then subtract the ones! Well done Lexi!
Paschal baptized our baby 'Ollie' at church today. We learned about all the signs and symbols of a baptism. Thank you for showing us the signs and symbols of baptism Paschal! All the children are looking forward to showing their parents about the signs and symbols of baptism in our Come and See class assembly on Friday (in our PJs for Children in Need) at 9:15!
We are learning a new Pie Corbett - The Three Billy Goat's Gruff! I wonder, what action are we doing here?
Hedingham Castle visit 2017 - learning about castles and medieval life in a castle! What a fantastic day we had!
Well done and a big THANK YOU to all the parents and carers who took part in our family tree home learning challenge! The children did such an amazing job and we loved looking at them this afternoon! Miss Clark had such a hard job judging them! They are all displayed in our corridor if you'd like to look at them. Thank you all once again!
Today we were using less than < and greater than > to compare numbers. Rebecca, Sion, Jacque, Kyle and Joe worked outside the classroom to compare numbers on the tiles!
Do you know how to stay safe online? Year 2 do!
Zip it, block it, flag it!
On Wednesday 27th September, Paschal visited us in the prayer garden and we read our prayers to him. We also learned two songs about God and learned about why we pray at the beginning of the day!
Thank you for coming to visit us Paschal!
Our topic this half term is... Castles!
It was European languages day today. We had a carousel of activities exploring countries from Europe and ended the day with a royal tea party with European foods! Which was your favourite food?
We've been working on counting and sequences today! Here we are learning outside the classroom!
We have been learning a non-fiction text using Pie Corbett! We now know the whole text! I wonder, what word are the children acting out?
Don't forget!
Swimming starts this Friday, the 15th September!
We have been consolidating our Phase 5 spellings this half term. Phonics Play has some brilliant free games for your child to play!
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
