Thank you for being a fantastic class Year 2!

Have a great summer ☀️

Love from Mrs Phillips , Mrs McAloon and Mrs Troy xxx

Year Two have had a great time this week completing lots of different sports.

Fun on Friday keeping fit on Wipe Out.

Lots of berries in our healthy smoothies to cool us down after all of our exercise.

A great team effort by everyone on Sports Day.

Just like Wimbledon during our tennis coaching.

 

Finally high intensity interval training in the classroom and then Cosmic Yoga to cool down.

A fantastic action packed week of exercise – well done Year Two!

 

Design & Technology – Textiles 🧵

For the first time on Wednesday, Year Two started to practise their sewing skills. Eliza and Izzy’s work in the photographs above, show some lovely neat sewing. Molly was so keen to carry on sewing, she went home  and made a wonderful finger puppet, which is fantastic! Over the next few weeks everyone is going to sew their own hand puppet and I’m looking forward to seeing lots more wonderful sewing creations.

English

In our class text about Mr Majeika, one of the characters has been turned into a frog by a magic spell. This was a great starting point for our writing task. Everyone had some fantastic ideas and each one was different. Imogen decided that in her story the character would be turned into a sunflower and she used an  adjective to describe the sunflower.

Jessica decided that the character should be turned into a football and the spell could only be broken if the school team won the football match. Thankfully they did, so Hamish Bigmore our character is back to normal in her story.

R.E.

We planned and carried out our liturgy in class, for the end of our topic about treasures in God’s world. We had a beautiful prayer by Phoebe that was read out, asking God to help us look after the world that he created. We realised that we only need to look out of a window to see all the wonderful things that God created.

At the end of our liturgy a wonderful  poem was read out, which is also a lovely way to end this week’s blog.

I often think of God.

He made the world I see.

And if he made such lovely things.

How lovely God must be.

I often think of God;

I know that he made me.

And if I am his loving child.

How happy I shall be.

 

English

As we enter the final summer term in Year Two we have started to read a fabulous chapter book, about a very interesting teacher called Mr Majeika. As you can see from the front cover Mr Majeika arrives at school on a flying carpet. Everyone had such fun thinking of different places he could have travelled on his flying carpet. Benny and Emelia had some great ideas for their writing. Emelia wrote about Disneyland and Benny wrote about Mr Majeika seeing a black panther and then a lion in Africa. What fantastic writing to start the term!

Design & Technology

In our Design & Technology lessons we have been researching and evaluating different types of puppets. In a few weeks time we are going to be sewing our own puppets. Imogen and Phoebe drew some great pictures and  labelled them too.They then looked at similarities and differences between the two types of puppets.

R.E.

In R.E. we also started our new topic called treasures. In the first lesson we discussed what we all treasured. We then used our special Cafod mobile phones to send a text message and a picture to tell a friend about our treasure. Izzy and Martha C. wrote great messages and illustrated them with wonderful pictures. I was very impressed with everyone’s work and it was a great way to start the term. Well done Year  Two!

Journey in Love

This week Year Two have been learning about how we meet God’s love in the community.  In class we have had some wonderful discussions and the children have produced some great work. It has given everyone a chance to share their feelings and share ideas about how we can help one another within our own school community. I have been very impressed with the kindness, consideration and respect that the children have shown to one another during our lessons.

R.E.

In R.E. we have been learning about saying sorry and forgiveness. We have also written our own prayers using the word PEACE.

 

We have enjoyed reading books and talking about our own feelings. We have discussed when we have felt happy and when we have felt sad or worried.We have talked about different things we can do to help us when we are feeling worried, just like the character Ruby.

Emelia then shared another book with everyone about being kind.

 

 

Art

We all felt very happy on Wednesday afternoon because we had a wonderful creative afternoon making a Batik coaster. It was great fun because it was just like writing a secret message. Once we had dyed our fabric the wonderful patterns could be seen.

 

What fantastic  costumes to celebrate reading today!

A wonderful last week of term and I hope everyone enjoys their well deserved half-term break.

 

R.E.

What a wonderful way to start today with a lovely prayer about God’s love for us all. Year Two children were very respectful and reverent when we said the prayer together in class. They then illustrated the prayer beautifully. The children also listened to a story where one person did something they shouldn’t have done. We discussed in class about what the character should do next and everyone said that  they  should say sorry.

English

We had a lovely sunny morning to jump into our story, to discover how our character must have felt when he made a great escape. However we needed our wellies on  because we had to negotiate lots of mud at the top of the field. We used all of senses as we waded through the mud. The adjectives and adverbs that  the children used in their plans were fantastic.

Then on Thursday Mrs Stephenson, Miss Walker and Mrs Dunn visited our classroom to see our writing. Mrs Stephenson was so pleased she shared lots of our writing on Twitter. Everyone was very proud of their achievements.

History

We have just finished our history topic about the seaside and holidays in the past. Our final task was to compare holidays now with those a long time ago.

Finally we watched a Punch and Judy show just like children would have done in the past. It was very funny and everyone enjoyed it.

 

 

Art

What a colourful array of weaving everyone has completed in Year Two! This is just a small selection of the great paper weaving that the children completed last week. This week we have been decorating our weaving with colourful sea creatures.    Now everyone will have a colourful placemat to use at home, once they have been laminated.

Maths

This week in Maths we have been learning about telling the time. On Monday everyone made their own clock.

We have been counting the minutes, using our five times table, to tell the time to five past the hour.

We have then been using our reasoning and problem solving skills to complete word problems.

English

In English we have been writing about having an adventure on a magical unicorn. The unicorn uses its magic to help everyone and is extremely kind. The unicorn stopped people fighting in wars, helped people who were homeless, stopped viruses from spreading and delivered food and water to people in other countries who were hungry and thirsty. Year Two then checked their magical stories to ensure their grammar, punctuation and spelling was correct.

R.E.

In our new R.E. topic about rules we have been learning about God’s rules. We read the bible and learnt about kindness, patience and forgiveness. We then wrote about being God’s Saint and explained how in our own lives,  we showed kindness, patience and forgiveness. After reading all of this wonderful work I’m sure everyone’s weekend is going to be filled with good actions.

 

Maths

We had a rather active Maths lesson outside when we had to solve problems about clockwise and anticlockwise turns. We all worked with a partner to stand on a huge clock and find out the correct answers, by physically completing the turns. Our next lesson in the classroom was much warmer and we used a floor robot to complete the turns for us. We had to predict where the robot would finish.We taped a huge clock to the floor and used our computing skills to program the robot.

English

We have continued reading our class text – The Lion and the Unicorn. The character Lenny started at the local  village school but the children were not friendly and Lenny felt sad. We discussed what we could have done to help Lenny. We changed the adjective sad into the adverb sadly and then wrote two sentences using the words correctly.We then investigated turning other adjectives such as happy, into adverbs and included them in sentences. By the end of the week we had completed some great writing in the past tense.  Phoebe, Abigail, Martha C. And Izzy’s writing shows some of the great work that was achieved.

Computing

Finally in our Computing lessons nearly everyone has completed their posters and Year Two are very proud of their colourful work. Another great end to a short week – well done Year Two!

Cricket Taster Session

Year Two had a great morning learning how to play cricket on Wednesday. Even though the weather wasn’t good the children had great fun learning a new skill with wonderful enthusiasm.

Computing

This week we have been learning how to insert graphics into a word document, then save it. We have made a poster linked to the book we are reading in our English lessons called The Lion and the Unicorn. The poster is about a lost badge that has the pictures of a lion and a unicorn on it. Martha C. was so excited to finish her poster she made one at home. Today everyone should finish their posters and next week we will upload them to our blog,  to show everyone’s computing skills.
English
In our English lessons we have been learning about writing in the present tense. In our book Lenny discovers a door to a secret garden. We imagined that we had entered the secret garden and we described what we saw.
Maths

 

In Maths we have been learning about making turns in a clockwise direction and an anti- clockwise direction.

We have certainly had a fantastic variety of different things to learn in Year Two this week. But as always the children in Year Two have risen to the challenge and they are all ready for a well deserved long bank holiday weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Maths we have been working on position and direction. We played a game to ensure that we used the correct mathematical vocabulary to describe a position. Lots of children found the letter ‘x’ that marked the position of the treasure.

In R.E. we read the bible story about the Ascension and how Jesus went back to be with his father in heaven. We learnt that God then sent the Holy Spirit to be with us and help us in everything that we do. We talked and then wrote about how the Holy Spirit helps us everyday.

In Design and Technology we have completed our vehicles. We then evaluated them to decide if we liked the design or if we would change anything the next time, to make it even better.

What great vehicles you made Year Two, well done!