Year 2 have designed and started to build a fortress for the Three Little Pigs so that they can hide away from the Big, Bad Wolf! They have used cardboard to construct it with a range of cutting and joining techniques. They can’t wait to get them finished!
Author: Sarah Crust
Everyone made such an effort to dress up today as a character from a book for World Book Day. We had an assembly to show off our amazing costumes and to parade around the hall. Even Chester the dog was impressed! We then listened to Michael Rosen perform his famous Chocolate Cake poem and we looked at the picture book.
2C are using rekenreks as a new way of improving their basic maths skills. They have been learning how to use them to show number bonds to 5 and 10 and they are discovering how they can be used to help them with other skills such as partitioning into tens and ones.
This week, 2C have been building air powered cars using simple materials. They worked in small groups to build it and fix any design issues along the way! They are now hard at work writing the instructions for making the vehicle in case anyone else would like to build one of their own!
In Science today 2C predicted how far they thought they would be able to throw a beanbag in metres. We had some very confident suggestions to start with until we discussed how far they actually were and then they decided that 100 metres was perhaps a little ambitious! We then measured out intervals of one metre on the playground and
2C had an amazing time last week. Captain Rocky Cliff sailed in from the Bristol Channel to talk to the children about his life as a pirate. They walked the plank, imagined what they could see through their telescope and tried some delicious pirate treats!
Over the half term holiday, the children chose from a list of homework activities. They wrote pirate jokes, wrote diaries of their trips to the coast but many of brought in treasure chests and ships which they had made. They enjoyed sharing their work and we have enjoyed celebrating in their achievements. We have also continued with our work about
We celebrated harvest last week. Reverend Jon Taylor came into school to deliver a special harvest assembly. Thank you for all the food contributions … as you can see everyone was very generous!
We have been learning how to write noun phrases in English as a new way of describing things. In our first lesson, we listened to sounds of a stormy sea and looked at paintings to help us imagine that we were there! We collected adjectives and then Mrs Crust helped us use these words to describe parts of the boat.
In the first lesson we read the first part of The Pirate Cruncher story then drew a picture of what we though would happen next. In the next few lessons we collected story language which we might need and some other useful words. We though about whether our sentences were action or noticing sentences using the lenses from The write