Creating a Long Story

Apologies for the lack of blogs - there has been a serious technical hitch on the Y2 blog page but hopefully we've got it sorted now!

We've been doing lots of things in Y2 and at the moment we're really hoping the days will start to get warmer so we can start doing P.E. outside again! We're focusing on catching skills - and that your eyes are as important as your hands if you're going to learn how to catch properly!

In English we're gathering lots of 'stolen words', thinking up amazing story openers and deciding how we can use punctuation effectively to create an interesting 'long story'. Yesterday we worked in groups and devised some short plays to show the central point in a story - the disaster! Today we've been building up detail around the drama; the picture shows some children brainstorming some descriptive words to use.

Next week we're off timetable and will be thinking about our newly arrived fountain. We will also have a few extra sessions on time as work we did last week showed that there was quite a lot of misunderstanding. Any extra work you can do at home with the children about time would be very appreciated!

As always - any questions etc do pop in.

Junk modelling

Y2 have been junk modelling - thanks for everything you've sent in this week. Our finished results are in the classroom if you want to pop in and look!
We're saving the rest of the boxes etc to make dragons with on our DRAGON DAY next week. We're having this on Thursday rather than Tuesday (as previously stated). The idea behind this is it is going to be a child led activity day, the children have been asked to think about what they'd like to do.

Those of you attending Parents' Evening on Thursday - hopefully the 'Dragons' Den' won't be too scary!!!!!

Have a lovely weekend.

Junk Modelling ... and more

Y2 have been junk modelling - we've made playground equipment out of cereal boxes and lots of other recycled materials. Many thanks to everyone who sent things in for us!

We are saving our remaining 'junk' for DRAGON DAY which will take place during TALK week next week. The children have asked to make dragons, write poems and stories about dragons and decorate the classroom as a dragons' den.

We're going to do this on Tuesday - watch this space for pictures!

If you haven't signed up for parents' evening please do so a.s.a.p. as slots are rapidly disappearing - the list is on the classroom door.