We had lots of fun listening to 'The Sea' by Debussy and creating this water themed collaborative artwork. We experimented with big, bold arm movements and a range of different lines. It was very calming and has made our classroom wall look bright and beautiful!...
We made a ‘staircase’ of numbers to 5 and played a game of who’s missing to help with our knowledge of composition of numbers and quick number recognition....
Something we find tricky in Year 2 is remembering our capital letters and full stops to make a sentence. This week we edited using traffic light sentences! We used green for go (capital letters) and red for stop (full stops). We worked well in partners...
We have been learning all about life cycles and how to keep healthy. We have recently been focussing on keeping clean and how personal hygiene affects our health. We tested to see how effective soap was at stopping the spread of germs with pepper representing...
In our reading lessons we have been reading the poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas’. We explored the features of the poem such and rhyming couplets and worked together in groups to perform the poem to the class....
In our singing lesson we learnt the Jingle Bell Rock, we were singing and dancing which made us feel even more excited about Christmas!...
In Art we learnt about Giorgio Moradi, a famous painter who specialised in still life paintings (A painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects). We sketched some objects from the kitchen and classroom adding light, medium and dark tones. [gallery ids="4951,4950,4949"]...
We explored still life art and created our own still life drawing based on objects from our school kitchen. We practised shading and tinting with our pencils to show light and dark. The art work is now decorating our classroom, our teacher was very impressed...
We created Christmas themed board games. We used our design skills, made our own dice and even created rule books so anyone can play....
We have given our reading area a Va Va Voom! We love diving into a new book, discovering a new author and getting lost in a wonderful world of imagination....