This week year 2 have been writing about the Lantern Festival. Here are sections from a few children’s writing:
“I felt excited because I saw fireworks.”
“It was dark at the festival and we had to achieve, work hard and do well.”
“I was nervous performing in front of the parents.”
“I felt happy because it was an amazing night.”
I had the opportunity to work with some wonderful children today supporting writing.
The children created, constructed and reordered bossy sentences. They then worked together to improve their spelling and composition.
I am so proud of their work!
Well done year 2
As part of our project about Lighthouses, we have been learning about the properties of materials.
Miss Low heard about the fantastic learning that was happening in Year 2 and posed us a dilemma… With all her travelling back and forth to our two sites, she keeps forgetting her lunch! Miss Low suggested a rope to transport her lunch from one school to the other (like in The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch!) but could we make a waterproof lunch box to make sure she wouldn’t have soggy sandwiches if it rained?!
We chose some materials to test and wrote our predictions as to whether they would be waterproof or not and why. We then tested the materials and wrote our findings.
We are well on the way to designing a waterproof lunchbox for Miss Low’s sandwiches! Hooray!!
Year 2 had a fantastic day playing in the sandpit and eating ice cream! We made lots of sandcastles and dug some very big holes!
Here are a few photos of our day…
Good morning!
It was fantastic to see so many children coming to school in their summer gear this morning ready to ignite our Lighthouse project!
Ignite has begun!! Class 2a are currently making seagulls, 2b are enjoying a sensory experience of sand and water while 2c are making a collage Mr and Mrs Grinling!
We are looking forward to our ice cream treat after lunch!
Photos to follow!
Here we are in our second dance lesson where we are learning and practising ready for November’s lantern festival! We are in high learning zones and full of energy! We are looking forward to showing you all soon!
In Year 2 we are thoroughly enjoying Brain Week! We wanted to find out more about our brain and what we can do to keep it healthy.
We found out that our brain can tell you how your body feels and that the chemicals that do this are called neurotransmitters. When the neurotransmitters in your brain are out of balance, it can stop your brain working properly!
There were three different neurotransmitters that we learnt about today.
We wondered how to balance the neurotransmitters. We thought it might be tricky! Luckily, you can eat foods that will help to keep the neurotransmitters in balance!
Tomorrow, we will be finding out what foods we can eat to balance our neurotransmitters!
Well done to these children for working hard to do lots of Maths learning at home!
Keep it up!
As part of our independent writing this week we have written our own information reports on Mary Anning. The children have applied their knowledge of information reports from our literacy lessons and combined this with the information we have learnt about Mary Anning in history.
Here are Max and Lola’s fantastic examples!
