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...