Bella Bella Cinderella

This week we performed our wonderful Christmas show 'Cinderella'.

The dancers, singers and actors were all outstanding and Mrs Thwaites and Mrs Fricker were very proud of us!
The Ugly sisters were particularly gruesome and frightening!

Mr Jones thought we were all natural performers.

We are all looking forward to watching the KS2 play next week.

Christmas is coming!

It may be only November but in Year 2 we are already getting ready for Christmas, rehearsing our Christmas play.

In Maths this week we have been learning how to tell the time to the nearest hour and half hour. We have started to learn how to use a digital clock and to break down the hour into 5 minute blocks.

In Literacy we have been writing explanations of how sound travels.

This is a picture of Year 2 with spot the Gorilla on Children in Need day last week.

Capacity

This week in Year 2 we have been doing lots of investigations into capacity.

Here we are playing capacity games on the laptops.

We made our own cocktails by measuring out different amounts of fruit squash.

We used the whiteboard to investigate shadows.

Week 2

We have had a busy week in Year 2. In Literacy we continued our work on Martin Waddell, using drama to ignite our imaginations. At the end of the week we wrote our own 'Big bear, Little, Bear' stories.
In Maths we sorted objects and numbers into venn diagrams.

Our class assembly was excellent and the whole school enjoyed listening to the story and watching our Haka.

Light and Sound WOW!!!

On Friday we had our 'Wow' event for our new topic, Light and Sound. We made beautiful Diva Lamps and Year 4 carved some fantastic pumpkins.
The teachers set up a dark room in the dungeon and we went down in groups, recording our thoughts on digital microphones.

It was really exciting and spooky! The Star Wars music added to the atmosphere!

Happy half term!

What an explosive week in Year 2! We enjoyed Mr Thwaites teaching us on Wednesday. We made erupting volcanoes using bicarbonate of soda. Rudy got soaked! It was really exciting.
In PE we learned the 'Hakka' war dance which the All Blacks perform at the start of a rugby match. We were very fierce!!!
In ICT we have been creating PowerPoint slides about new Zealand using the captions we wrote in Literacy.
Mrs Thwaites and Mrs Fricker are very proud of their clever and creative class for working so hard this term. Happy half term everyone!

Kia ora

Kia Ora! That's hello in the Maori language. the Maori are New Zealand's native people and we have been learning all about them this week. Some Maoris have tribal tattoos on their faces!

Here we are making ANSAC biscuits. ANSAC stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corp and these troops ate these yummy biscuits to keep their spirits and energy up during the first world war.

We used our measuring skills to weigh out the ingredients. We were very pleased with the end result!

On Thursday we had a visit from 'Explore Learning' who did a fun maths workshop with us.