Today was World Book Day! The children arrived looking splendid as characters from their favourite books. They first shared their characters with the rest of the class, telling each other what book they were from and what their character was like. They then created ‘small world’ scenes from Mini Grey’s book, Traction Man; they adapted the story to create adventures based in the classroom and narrated their scenes using their most expressive Traction Man voices! After break, they took part in the World Book Day online lesson with BBCTeach, before splitting into teams to complete a ...
It was lovely to welcome the children back on Monday and I hope you and they had a super half term. This week, we have started a new literacy unit based on Oliver Jeffers’ ‘How to catch a star’. This engaging book will enable the children to write their own sequels to the story, continuing the adventures of the boy and his new friend, the star. In maths, we continue to explore multiplication and division and in computing we are looking at questioning, including binary trees. Homework packs were issued today – as always, if your ...
It was so lovely to see you at Parents Evening this week. I am so proud of everything Year 2 has achieved so far this year, and hope that you are equally proud of your child’s progress. This week has been Art Week and the children have been practicing their sketching skills, culminating in a drawing of a shell using careful shading and texture. There are a few photographs below. I hope you have a very restful half term.
Kind regards,Mrs Hunter
For our final literacy unit this half term, we are looking at poetry. We have read Hilda Offen’s poem ‘Into the blue’ and are going to write our own poem using hers as inspiration. You can listen to her poem here:
https://vimeo.com/129662873
We have started off by imagining we are floating in the air, looking down at the world and have created expanded noun phrases to describe what we can see. We subsequently looked at pictures of different bodies of water (lakes, seas, oceans etc) and used similes and alliteration to describe them.
We have moved onto a new unit ...
The children looked fantastic this morning as they dressed up for Number Day. Mrs Cavenagh-Mainwaring organised a fabulous day of fun maths activities and games and the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves whilst raising money for an important charity. There are a couple of photographs below! Next week, we start a new literacy unit and a new maths unit (multiplication and division) so now is the perfect time to dig out your child’s TTRockstars login details!
I hope you have a lovely weekend,Mrs Hunter