Week 3

In Literacy this week we have been creating rhythmic poems on the theme of the seasons. We wrote a fantastic class poem about Spring and each wrote individual winter poems. They were great! All this work helped us create a Spanish dance in PE where we used 'hot' words to inspire our movements.
In Maths we have been practicing partitioning numbers in to tens and units to add two digit numbers together.
We have learned lots more about Mexico, comparing life in Mexico City and the countryside to our own loves in Bristol. On Friday we had a visit from Alejandro, a Mexican man who lives in England. He told us all about his childhood in Mexico and traditional Mexican food and games. He also told us how to say all our names in Spanish. We really enjoyed his visit. Thanks Alex!

Ola Mexico!

What an exciting start to our new topic, Mexico! We created 3D maps of Mexico and included different elements of the landscape such as the desert, forests, rivers and the sea.

We have enjoyed sharing the presentations prepared during the holidays and learning lots of facts about Mexico from each other.

in ICT we used the Internet to search for more information and found out that Mexico is a large country in Central America. The people there speak Spanish and wear Sombreros! It is a very popular holiday destination.


On Friday we sampled some Mexican guacamole and salsa. The unanimous verdict was 'yummy!'

Our Literacy this week has been poetry and we have loved learning and performing funny poems to each other. In Maths we have been creating pictograms and learning to count in groups.

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!