At the end of last term Year 2 held an exhibition of the work we did during our China topic.
The children performed their 'Chinese Dragon' dance. Year 2 worked really hard and had loads of enthusiasm for this topic. They were very proud of all their work.
We read the comments in the visitors book the next day and it made us feel '10 ft tall'!







On Friday Year 2 went out to the agility trail for golden time (we had special permission from Mrs Roberts)! It was a beautiful afternoon!

Chinese dumplings

This week year 2 did cooking again with Liz, Bridget and Bev. They made 'Chinese dumplings' of the sweet variety. They were very yummy!

This week Year 2 have been celebrating Chinese New Year!!
On Thursday it was Miss Morgan's PPA day so Yr 2 spent the day with Mrs Hilberg. They made lucky red envelopes, chinese lanterns and dragon masks. In the afternoon everyone had a fortune cookie - some of the fortunes were very interesting! We also tried a sweet that chinese children would be given for chinese new year. We watched a DVD about how the children in China celebrate. We also performed our dragon dance to the Reception class as a rehearsal for our performance at Ashton Park.






We performed brilliantly at the dance festival and Miss Morgan was very proud! It was lovely to watch the other schools dance as well.

Massive map making

This week year 2 have been using their geographical, as well as their art, skills to make large scale 3D maps. They are not quite finished yet as we need to add the 3D bits! The children collaborated in small groups - they have worked really well together.

Movement and measures

Here are some pictures of Year 2 'warming up' before gymnastics last week. We were playing the game 'beans'.




This week in numeracy we have been doing lots of measuring. We used metre sticks to measure things in the classroom and applied our rounding skills to measure to the nearest 10cm.
We also measured weight using kilograms and grams. We completed an investigation which relied on our accurate estimating skills.





Year 2 got ready for bed in school on Monday when we had our pyjama party. We enjoyed drinking hot chocolate and eating cookies whilst listening to stories.

Chinese workshop

This week Year 2 had a special visitor Mrs Lee. She is from China and came to teach us some things as part of our topic. We were taught how to say lots of things in Chinese such as, 'hello', 'thank you' and also how to count to 10.

She also showed us how to Chinese calligraphy and we all had a go. You had to keep your hand very steady and not press down on the soft brush.

We also used chopsticks to pick up pasta from a traditional chinese bowl. It was very tricky!!

Finally we shown some dragon puppets. We really liked the lion!

Happy new year!

Firstly I would like to wish you all a 'Happy New Year'! Thank you all so much for the gifts and cards at the end of term. I am very, very grateful.

We have only been back for 3 days and so this blog will be quite short! However, the children are already showing a huge amount of enthusiasm for our new topic 'China'. They love knowing which chinese zodiac sign they are and also how to write their names in Chinese! Some children have brought in artefacts from China and also their homework projects which are fantastic! I am looking forward to seeing everyone else's next week!