More shadows!

In science this week we had an exploration session with shadows. We all made a shape and then investigated if we could make a shadow on the board when the light was off. Nobody's shape made a shadow! Then we turned the light on and experimented with moving our shapes closer to and further away from the light.



In literacy we have been continuing to follow and give instructions verbally.
Our numeracy unit is data handling and measures. On Wednesday we made a pictogram of our favourite colours so that Heather would know what colour to paint some of the doors around the school!

Snow and shadows!

As you all know year 2 had their 'shadow puppet'workshop on Tuesday. Lots of photos were taken but unfortunately the year 2 camera has gone missing. As soon as it turns up there will be photos of the day on the blog.
All of us made a moveable shadow puppet, as well as having a go with our 'experts' puppets. It was a very fun, busy day! Thank you to all of the parents who helped us have a fantastic day!

Just a quick note about weather and suitable clothing. Please make sure that the children have a pair of wellies in school as well as a warm coat, hat and gloves.

Thank you!

Last week was very busy as we had 3 performances of the Nutcracker to do! We all worked really hard though and did really well.
This week has been about all things christmassy!
We made christmas decorations out of salt dough. We all enjoyed getting very messy!
We also had our christmas party and had a very special visitor from somebody. Can you guess who?!






Thank you for all of your support and help so far this year.
Have a wonderful christmas and see you all in the new year!

Fun with puppets!

On Tuesday Year 2 were lucky enough to watch a puppet show - peformed by the group ACTA. It was really good and made us all laugh alot! The puppets were really life like and we had lots of questions about how they were made. At the end of the show one of the puppetiers kindly donated her puppet to our class!



We have been working on measures in numeracy focussing on weight. Here we are making balls of plasticine weigh accurate weights. We learnt about the units used in weight.

Christmas countdown!

On Friday the whole school was lucky enough to see a Bristol Old Vic production of the nativity story. It was very funny and they did some lovely singing. Year 2 enjoyed it very much! Especially when the shepherds were chasing the 'sheep thief'!




Also on Friday we worked hard to get the main display and our class display completed. We all made our own individual bauble to stick onto a giant bauble. See if you can spot ours amongst all of the other classes. Our board is an ice-skating scene. We enjoyed making our own snowflake, doing a green handprint for the tree and decorating the skaters.

Bee-bot town and measures!

We were very, very excited about making our Bee-Bot town using the buildings we made at home over half term! It looked fantastic and we had SO much fun navigating the town and directing the Bee-Bots to different places.




In maths we were working on measures. We had a lot of fun making play-do worms and ordering them smallest to largest. Then we had to group them by estimating if they were more or less than 10cm. Tricky stuff!

Sorry for the delay with this week's blog!
Last week we visited Gorse Marsh to see the improvements that had been made. Luckily it stayed dry(ish) for KS 1!


We practised using the Bee-Bots in preperation for naviagting our Bee-Bot towns.
The buildings are fantastic! Well done for all of your hard work making them.


In numeracy we did lots of handling data activities such as sorting dominoes into 'has a one spot' and 'does not have a one spot' groups.