Christmas Party Day!!!!!!

We have had such a fun day today enjoying our Christmas party!! We also had a very special visitor too!!! Have a look at the photos to see us having lots of fun!!

 

 

 

Learning Logs - Christmas!!

Our last learning log of this term was a Christmas based theme, with a very festive picture for you to describe and imagine what is happening in it. You came up with some super ideas and stories and all used lots of great VCOP! You are getting fantastic at up-levelling your writing!!

Here are your wonderful pieces... there will not be another learning log now until the first week back in January. I think you all deserve a break over Christmas!!

Christingles!

Today we enjoyed a special Christingle assembly by Mrs Longhorn and then we went back into class to make our own Christingles!

Can you remember what all the different parts represent?

 

 

Wizards Workshop!!

We have an exciting new challenge in year 2 called 'The Wizards Workshop'. We can develop our imagination and VCOP skills using this challenge to write spells and potion, describe what will happen after we have made our potion and take ourselves to a magical world!!!

 

 

Learning Logs - Florence Nightingale

Yet another set of fantastic learning logs showcasing all the fantastic things you have learnt during this topic of Florence Nightingale!! Have a look at them here..

Big Write Star of the Week - Friday 6th December

Jacob H

Jacob really impressed me in particular with his punctuation in the last Big Write. As well as the usual full stops and capital letters, he included brackets correctly used, speech marks and an ellipse!! Well done Jacob!! Fantastic!

 



Christmas Around the World!

In the last week of term we are going to be learning about Christmas around the world! Have you all started opening your advent calendars? We are going to be looking at an interactive advent calendar in the last week but you can start to look at it here and click on the door each day to see what it tells you about Christmas around the world....click on the calendar below to take you to the interactive calendar...

Christmas Decoration Morning!

Well now that Christmas is well on the way I hope you have all had an exciting weekend and the first door on your advent calendar is open!! We enjoyed Friday morning when some of our grown ups came in and we made Christmas decorations and decorated the classroom up! Here we are and there is a little video of the fun in action too!!

 

 

 

Fun Maths Morning!!

This morning we had our whole school maths morning. We split and switched class to work with children from different year groups to learn and share ideas around problem solving maths. In year 2 we spilt with year 5 and in the year 2 classroom there were a few different activities available....

• building a house with a long chimney using pencils and rubber bands to join each side.
• Tangrams
• Sumdog
• Sudokus

Here we are having lots of fun!

Thackray Trip!!!

What a fantastic trip we had today to the Thackray Medical Museum. The Florence workshop was fun and informative and we enjoyed going round the museum and exploring the 'Life Area'. You were all wonderfully behaved and a credit to the school, here are the pictures!! There are some videos at the bottom too although sometimes they can be a little slow!

Add a comment what did you find out about and learn today? What was your favourite part?

 

 

 

 

 

Cleaning the hospital!!

 

Making the bed for the soldiers!

 

Auditions...who can be the poorliest soldier?!

 

Fantastic Learning Logs - Instructions!

I really enjoyed reading all your learning logs this week and learning all the instructions you wrote for all the different tasks!! You were all fantastic at remembering the key elements of how to write effective instructions and I was very impressed. Here they are..

 

Big Write Star - 22nd November 2013

Jacob H

Jacob is the big write star this week for his fantastic instructions. He described his ingredients for his marvellous medicine with super adjectives, layed his instructions out correctly with a title, subtitle, bullet points and numbers and used lots of interesting bossy verbs. Well done Jacob!

Florence Nightingale, The Crimean War and Mary Seacole.

We are learning about Florence Nightingale in our topic work this half term and looking forward to a very exciting trip on Monday to the Thackray museum! We are looking at her life story her work in the Crimean war and we will also be looking at Mary Seacole in the coming weeks...

Click on Florence below to access the website we have been looking at in class where you can play a game, watch a video and read some interesting information...

 

Watch this horrible history clip too to tell you more...

 

Big Write Star - November 15th 2013

Karis

You can tell Karis reads lots of books at home, she includes super story language in her writing and has really shown some high level vocab in her story. She aways uses all her VCOP skills and her handwriting is beautiful. Keep it up Karis you are making me very proud!

Children in Need!

Today we came to school in our pyjamas and brought our teddies to show our support and donate money for 'Children in Need'.

Click on Pudsey Bear below to access some games you can play from the 'Children in Need' website. Have fun and don't forget to be proud of how your donation has helped!!

Remembrance Day Activities

This week in topic we have been developing our understanding of why remembrance day is such an important occasion each year in November.

Can you remember why the poppy is so important?

Below this post are some link to some websites you can look at to help your understanding of remembrance day.

Here we are during our learning. We did three different activities....

• We wrote postcards to the soldiers who are fighting for and protecting our country today.
• We did some artwork in the style of Van Gogh, the technique we used was called 'pointilism' which we used it to recreate his famous poppy picture.
• We described what it must have been like in the trenches during the world wars and looked at problems the soldiers had such as 'trenches foot'.

 

Here is Van Goghs famous poppy picture....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class Twitter!

This week in class we introduced a class twitter board to help us progress and develop our learning. We add 'tweets' to the board during lessons in the form of post it notes.... there are two post it notes to choose from. A pink post it note is something you don't know yet and what to learn about in your lessons. The yellow post it note is for something you have learnt and you now understand.

It is a good way of the teachers knowing what it is the children need and want to learn about and also a way of the children showing us what they have learnt!!

Have a look at the photos to see how it works....this week we have been learning about remembrance day in topic.

Remembrance Day

We observed two minutes silence today at 11am to remember the soldier that fought and still fight for our country. During this week will be learning more about remembrance day and why it is an important occasion in Britain at this time of year.

You can find out more by visiting this website... click HERE

 

This is the official British legion website... HERE

Use this to see were our donations go when we buy a poppy... HERE

Learning Logs - Half Term Diaries!

I was very impressed with your learning logs this week, it was really interesting seeing all the exciting this you did over half term and you all used lots of super VCOP too!! Have a look at them below...

 

Big Write Star of the Week - Friday 8th November

Thomas

Thomas has made such a fantastic improvement in his writing since he first joined year 2. His writing is developing because he is including description, remembering finger spaces and punctuation and really extending his ideas in his big writes! Keep it up Thomas!

Problem Solving Maths

This week part of our maths is to have a go at some interactive problem solving activities. We need to use our mathematical understanding to tackle and solve the problems and explain how we solve them. Here are some of us having a go...

Halloween Games for over half term!

I hope you are all enjoying your half term week so far and are keeping safe now the dark nights are drawing in...

If you click on the image below it takes you to a fun website with lots of spooky Halloween games you can play on!!

This is my favourite, you get to cut out a virtual pumpkin! (From Mrs Warners blog) CLICK HERE

 

This is also a spooky maths game you can play.. click HERE

 

Have fun and be safe if you go out trick or treating on Thursday!!!!

Map of London

Here is the link to the website we were looking at in class last week, to find different features and places in London...

click here---> http://www.mylondonmap.com/

Can you find these places?

• Buckingham Palace... address London SW1A 1AA,
• The monument to the Great Fire of London... address Fish Street Hill, London EC3R 6DB
• London bridge
• St Pauls Cathedral... address St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD
• Tower of London... address London EC3N 4AB, United Kingdom
• London eye... address Riverside Bldg, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1 7PB
• Big Ben... address Westminster, London SW1A 0AA

What other place can you find?

 

Here is the map of the Fire of London and where it spread in 1666.

Big Write Star of the Week - Friday 18th October

Edward

Edward wrote his diary recount of the Fire of London in the style of Samuel Pepys with great detail and content. He wrote in the first person and really brought the fire to life, using all his VCOP skills and including speech, with the correct punctuation. Well done Edward!!

Black History Month!!

This week in topic we have been celebrating 'Black History Month'. We have been learning about the importance of various famous black people in history, and then we listened to Martin Luther King's speech and wrote our own 'I have a dream...' speeches, before making them into a flap open card, with different skin coloured hand prints on the front. We did some artwork inspired by Stephen Njenga an African artist using pastels and very fine sandpaper ...have a look at the photos I'm sure you'll agree it's very effective and abstract!! I have really enjoyed this week I hope you all have too!!!

Guess The Number maths game....

Here is the 'Guess The Number' game we are using in maths this week , click on the image below to access the game...

There is another similar game HERE

Fire of London Learning Logs

I was so impressed with your Fire of London learning logs, you found some super facts and information, and presented your work with some fantastic creative ideas!!

The Magic Box by Kit Wright

This week in literacy we are looking at two poems, one of them is called 'The Magic Box' by Kit Wright. We will be looking at the language pattern of the poem and making up our own versions about what we would put into our own magic box.... look at the image below and imagine it is you opening the box... what would you find?

 

Here you can watch Kit Wright reading his famous poem...

 

Click HERE

Inverse in Maths

This week in maths we have been solving problems using the inverse and understanding how when we do and addition or subtraction problem, we can use the inverse to find the answer without having to work it out again.

Here are 2 games you can use to practise the concept of 'finding the inverse'. Click on the image to go to the wesite!

Big Write Star of the Week - 11th October 2013

Liam

Liam is the big write star this week as he has improved so much over this half term, both in the content of his writing and his personal confidence. He used some wonderful description, describing the house as 'an onion' and used some high level vocabulary. Well done Liam!



Electricity!!!

This week we have been learning about electricity in science. We have been making simple circuits, looking at sources of power and thinking about electrical safety.

 

Here is the E-on website we were looking at in class today... E-On Website

 

On this website you can experiment with making your own circuits...Circuits Website

 

Here we are in class....

 

 

ICT - Fire of London Newspaper articles on Purple Mash

We have been using 'Purple Mash' in ICT to create our own newspaper articles about The Fire of London. Here we are hard at work on the computers and look out for the finished pieces on display in the classroom! 

 





Poetry - The Boneyard Rap!

Over the next fortnight in literacy, we are focusing on poetry and this week in particular we are basing our learning around 'The Boneyard Rap' by Wes Magee! We are making up our own poems using body parts and percussion instruments.... if you would like to listen to the poem and have a go at remembering the actions we put to it

click HERE

 

Oracy Cards / Philosophy for Children

Every week as part of our SMSC curriculum we have a philosophy for children session. It gives us time to think and reflect on a topic and share ideas and opinions, appreciating each others ideas and taking them into account. Sometimes this session may just be a ten minute slot and sometimes it may be a longer session.

This week we used an oracy card to discuss a topic in our two's and then feedback and share ideas.... our topic was 'You meet a child from another country...What questions would you ask them and why?'

Big Write Star of the Week - Friday 4th October 2013

Rose D

Rose always includes lots of fantastic description in her writing. She makes her stories exciting with ambitious vocabulary and always remembers punctutation including speech marks. Well done Rose!!

PE this week - Racket Skills!

This half-term in PE we are developing our skills to use in Games.

This week we moved onto using rackets. We started off hitting beanbags with them and moved onto using those tricky sponge balls! They were tricky to control because they were so light. But we persevered and developed our skills; working on our own at first and then with a partner.

It was a brilliant PE session Year 2! Well done everyone, you worked hard today.

Partitioning to Add

Here is the game you can play that we have been using in maths to help us partition to add.

 

Click here---> Partitioning to Add

Big Write Star of the Week - Friday 27th September

 Jacob G

Jacob wrote a very interesting story using his imagination. I was impressed with how he used all the correct punctuation including an ellipse, he used WOW words and connectives and also included our new 'ly' words. Fantastic Jacob!!!!!

Tuesday - by David Wiesner

This week in literacy we are going to be using a piece of visual literacy called 'Tuesday' by author David Wiesner. This story is a picture book with lots of opportunities for super description and imaginative ideas.

We will be: developing description, thinking of questions to ask the characters, having a go at some hot seating, making our own versions of the story with an animal of our choice to replace the frogs and thinking about the characters speech.

You can watch the story here and start thinking about your own ideas!! Please leave a comment to let me know your initial ideas and opinions!! What happens every Tuesday evening around 8 O' Clock?

Big Write Star of the Week - Friday 20th September 2013

Issy

Issy produced a fantastic piece of imaginative writing to describe a scene. She remembered to include lots of adjectives, connectives and I was very proud of how she used some 'ly' openers 'Amazingly' and 'Suddenly'. Well done Issy!!   

Fire of London Artwork!

These past 2 weeks we have been experimenting with various techniques and mediums to produce a range of artwork inspired by the Great Fire of London. We used the following techniques...

Watercolour paints

Pastels and charcoal

Watercolour pencils

Batik

Here are the budding artists in action....

 

Maths This Week - Partitioning, Greater Than and Less Than and Timestable Hunts!

We are very busy this week in our maths lessons, learning new things and also practising things we learnt last week! We have been learning how to partition numbers into tens and units and beginning to understand place value. We are also learning how to use the 'Greater Than' and 'Less Than' symbol correctly, as well as one group going around the hall on times table hunt with Miss Coomber!! 
We are all going to be super mathematicians!! Here we are enjoying the activities...

 

Here is one game we had on the IWB today to help us with partitioning.... Click HERE

 

This is the penguin place value game we were playing too... Click HERE

 

There is a little game you can play to practise your greater than and less than symbol... Click HERE

VCOP games on the carpet!

Each day we start our morning with either VCOP games or our 'Talk for Writing' story. Today we played some VCOP games and were learning to use the opener 'sometimes' to start a sentence, whilst still trying to remember to use adjectives (WOW words) and connectives and of course punctuation. We did a fantastic job and came up with some very interesting sentences. Here are just a few....