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