20th November 2019
Harriet and Oscar have been learning to play the ocarina this term as one of their extra-curricular activities. After watching this video I'm sure you'll agree they are very good.
Well done Harriet and Oscar!
Week Beginning 2nd December 2019
What will we be learning this week?
English:
- Identifying commands and punctuating sentences correctly using full stops, capital letters, questions marks and exclamation marks
- Continue with our Guided Reading work based on the poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'
- Sharing a variety of Christmas books. If the children have any Christmas books at home they would like to share we would love to read them together and make a little display of them in the classroom
Maths:
- Continuing with our unit of work all about multiplication
- Understanding and creating arrays writing multiplication facts to match
- Learning our 2 and 5 times tables
IPC:
- Investigating the question: 'Is air a force?'
Events this week:
- Tuesday: Born in a Barn Nativity. We will be having our dress rehearsal in the morning before performing for our friends and families in the afternoon. The performance will start at 2.00pm. Children will be free to go home slightly early following the performance
- Wednesday: those children in Pre-Prep choir will be carol singing at Timothy Hackworth Court in the morning
- Saturday: Teesside High Christmas Market 10.00am-1.00-pm
A very big THANK YOU to all parents for providing the children with such wonderful costumes for our Nativity play. The excitement got the better of us all on Friday afternoon and we couldn't wait until Tuesday to try them on so we had a little trying on session. All the chidlren look absolutely amazing and are so excited to be performing for you all on Tuesday.
Mathletics
28th November 2019
Well done to Molly, Lyla and Annie who all achieved bronze certificates this week and a very special well done to Oscar who achieved a silver certificate.
School Council
27th November 2019
Our School Council representatives, Molly and Sidney went to a school council meeting today at lunchtime. They were very excited to show us all their new badges when they came back to the classroom.
Decorating the Christmas Tree
27th November 2019
We were all very excited when Mrs Rance came up to our classroom to ask if we would be able to help her decorate the huge Christmas tree in Reception.
IPC Investigation
27th November 2019
Today we had fun in IPC investigating if water is a force. We discovered the water was able to move the boat so concluded it is indeed a force.
Week Beginning 25th November 2019
What will we be learning this week?
English:
- Revising alternative spelling patterns for 'u-e' including 'ew', 'oe' and 'ue'
- Learning about the difference between commands and questions
- Writing questions and commands and punctuating them correctly
- Sharing the Traditional Poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'
- Writing questions to Santa
Maths
- Completing our unit of work all about Money by having a little more practise with working out change
- Starting our new unit of work which is 'Multiplication'
- Recognising equal and unequal groups
- Making equal and unequal groups
- Recording equal groups using repeated addition. E.g. 4 groups of 2 would be 2+2+2+2
- Learning the multiplication sign
- Link multiplication with repeated addition and word problems. E.g. '2 groups of 3', '3+3', '2x3'
IPC
- Considering if we think water is a force? How can we find out?
Special Events this week:
- Our final week to rehearse our Nativity Play. Just a reminder that full costumes should be handed in by Friday 29th November at the latest. Please feel free to hand them in earlier
Christmas has begun!
22nd November 2019
Christmas has well and truly started in Year 2 today as we put up our classroom Christmas tree. Watch this space as we decorate it over the next few weeks.
Spelling Challenge
22nd November 2019
The Spelling Challenge this week is to make and play a game of 'Match-Up'.
Star of the Week
22nd November 2019
Congratulations to our Star of the Week who is Darcey this week.
Balancing in P.E.
25th November 2019
In P.E. this week we had fun working with a partner to make 2, 3 and 4 point balances as part of our gymnastics unit of work.
Christmas Card Orders
21st November 2019
I hope you have all safely received your child's Christmas Card design. Please remember the closing date for orders is Monday 25th November. Orders can be placed by following the link on the letter emailed to all parents earlier this week.
Year 2 is AMAZING
21st November 2019
After reading the poem 'My Dad is AMAZING', we have been busy writing poems of our own. As well as writing individual poems about people who are amazing to us, we worked together to write a poem as a class.
Our New Class Friend
19th November 2019
Lotso Bear came to school last Friday for our Pyjama Party and he had so much fun with the wonderful children that he has asked us if he can stay with us for a little while. He's got his own seat in the classroom and we are all enjoying showing him how hard we work and how much fun we have. Last night he discovered all the money in our classroom and was trying to count it all up. He found this a little tricky so wrote us a note to ask for our help. Of course we happily helped him, although we did think that the next step for Lotso is to work on his handwriting!
Mathletics Certificates
19th November 2019
Well done to Sidney, Molly and Oscar who have all worked hard and achieved Mathletics Certificates this week.
Spelling Challenge
15th November 2019
Hopefully the Play-Doh we made this week has survived and you can have fun using it to try and make your spellings.
Week Beginning 18th November 2019
What will we be learning this week?
English
- Revising the 'oa' sound and alternative spelling patterns: 'o_e', 'ow', 'oe'
- Writing sentences about people in our family using adjectives and connectives
- Sharing examples of poems about families
- Writing a poem about somebody in our family based on the structure of the poem 'My Dad is Amazing' by Ian Souter
Maths
- Continuing with our work on money
- Making the same amount in different ways, using different coins and notes
- Making specific amounts using coins from a given selection
- Comparing sets of money using <, > and = signs
- Working out change
IPC
- Learning about air resistance. We will explore this by going outside with different sized pieces of card which we will then run with. Does it feel the same with the different sizes?
- Some of our IPC lessons will also be used to rehearse our Nativity play
Special Events Happening this week
- So far this week looks like it is the 'calm before the storm' with no special events taking place. Watch this space though as things are about to get VERY busy as we race towards Christmas!
Children in Need
15th November 2019
What a great time we had today all dressed up for Children in Need. We raised lots of money too. Mabel was the winner for our class in the wellie throwing competition and we all tried our best to guess the teachers when they were younger. This was very tricky! Our day finished with our pyjama party where we enjoyed sharing books together whilst being all cosy with our blankets and teddies. Thank you to everyone who donated so generously.
Star of the Week
15th November 2019
Congratulations to Sidney who was crowned our Star of the Week this week.
Recipes
14th November 2019
In English this week we have been looking at non-fiction texts, specifically recipes. We had fun following a recipe to make playdough. It was even more fun as we had to 'purchase' the correct ingredients which were all in stock in Miss Hall's shop! This linked in with our Maths work all about money. In our 'Big Write' we then went on to write a recipe. We included features of non-fiction texts such as 'headings', 'sub headings' and 'lists', as well as time-connectives 'first', 'next', 'after that' and 'finally' when writing the instructions.
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