Sock Puppets

We have been very busy in class this week making sock puppets. In our 'Power of Reading' story Claude and his friend Sir Bobblysock go on many adventures together so we thought we would make our own sock characters.

We thought very carefully about our designs and chose our materials to match these. When we had made our sock puppets we also evaluated our work.

We really enjoyed making these and were delighted to bring them home!

Weekly News - 26.4.19

Welcome back to the Summer term!

We started the week by planning our leaflets for the Sainsbury Centre. The children looked at real-life leaflets to decide what features they should include. The planned space for headings, a map, pictures, prices, opening times, etc. Later in the week, we wrote persuasive paragraphs about what you can do at the Sainsbury Centre, the shop and the café. On Friday, we used our planning to make the leaflets. These have been photocopied and sent to the Sainsbury Centre for them to, hopefully, use.

In maths this week, we learnt about how to read scales. We looked at real-life scales on car speedometers, measuring jugs, rulers, weighing scales, etc. The children looked closely to see what steps the scales were counting in (1s, 2s, 5s, 10s) and had to work out the missing number. Later in the term, we will be applying this skill by reading thermometers.

During the afternoons, we have been designing, making and evaluating sock puppets. The children have had lots of fun and we are very impressed with how much their real puppet looks like their design!

Weekly news - 5.4.19

This week, in English, we have written our newspaper reports about the ‘great sculpture robbery’ that took place in the art gallery of our book ‘Claude in the City’. The children wrote a headline, drew a picture with a caption and included lots of real facts and quotes from local people. We have used the opportunity to discuss the features of non-fiction texts.

In the afternoons, we have been busy completing Easter and spring craft activities. The children really enjoyed making their bouncing chicks and chocolate Easter nests in baskets.

On Thursday, we had a wonderful time on our school trip. The children found out lots of information about the Sainsbury Centre and completed some sketching activities. After Easter, we will be continuing our work on non-fiction by making leaflets/guidebooks for the Sainsbury Centre using the information we collected.

We have had our final practise of our ‘special booklets’ (SATs) ready for May and we are pleased with the progress that the children have made. Over the Easter holidays, please continue to hear you child read little and often, and, if you have time, complete a few maths problems with them (all 4 operations). However, and most importantly, we really hope you all have a relaxing Easter filled with exciting activities.

From,

Year 2 Team

Trip to the Sainsbury's Centre

Today Whales Class went on a very exciting trip to the Sainsbury's Centre Art Gallery. We went there because in our 'Power of Reading' book Claude, the main character, went on a trip to the city and went to a gallery himself.

While we were there we did lots of different activities. We went on an outdoor sculpture trail and saw some amazing sculptures. We looked around the art gallery for different pieces of art such as 'Bucket Man' 'Llama effigy' and 'Walking Hippopotamus' They were all wonderful pieces of art to look at. We did some fantastic sketches. We were also gallery detectives finding out lots of important information about the Sainsbury's Centre so we can make our own leaflet about it after the holidays.

We all had a lovely day and Mrs Brooks said we were brilliantly behaved!

Spelling test

Just a quick note to say we will be we will be having a spelling test next week. We will be picking 10 words from the last 4 weeks of spelling sheets. Please practise with your children ready for Thursday 4th. 

Thank you for your continued support,
Mrs Brooks and Mrs Jennings

Maths cafe

We had a fantastic time at our Maths cafe on Tuesday this week. We enjoyed being the teachers and showing our grown ups how we work our calculations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We then made multiplication flowers choosing a times table we felt we needed to work on. We can use our multiplication flowers to practise at home.

Thank you so much to all our parents for coming and for all your lovely comments too.

Weekly news 29.3.19

This week has been a super busy week!

Firstly, we would like to thank you for your support with our Maths Café and our Assembly. We hope you enjoyed learning about how your child solves maths problems and learnt a little bit about our Power of Reading story from our assembly.

In English this week, we found out that a robber stole a sculpture from an art gallery in our book ‘Claude in City’. We made wanted posters using suffixes, for example harmless, colourful, quickly, shiniest, cleverest and sneakiest. Later in the week we held a press conference with children in role as the Robber, Security Guard, Museum Manager, Mayor and Police Chief. The children wrote questions to ask at the conference. We have begun looking at the features at newspapers ready to write a newspaper report about the incident next week.

In Maths, we have been practising our multiplication skills and learning about the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. We used the same 4 numbers to write four numbers sentences, for example 5 x 2 = 10, 2 x 5 = 10, 10 ÷ 5 = 2 and 10 ÷ 2 = 5.

In Science, we learnt about fingerprints and how the police use these to identify criminals. We scribbled with a pencil, pressed our finger on top, then put our finger onto the sticky side of a piece of sellotape, and once this was stuck onto white paper, you could see the fingerprint clearly. We used magnifying glasses to observe and find similarities and differences.

We will be having a spelling test next week. We will be picking 10 words from the last 4 weeks of spelling sheets. Please practise with your children ready for Thursday 4th.