We have been writing a persuasive text about deforestation. Before we started writing, we held a debate where we argued for and against deforestation in the Amazon rainforest....
We have had an exciting week in Writing as we have been creating our very own folk tales! We know that folk tales are fiction, often teach a lesson, have repeated phrases and involve a trickster, such as Anansi the cheeky spider!...
In our Writing lessons, we continued exploring the rainforest for our information texts. Firstly, we ranked our most exciting facts about the rainforest and then we completed a layout for our writing, focusing on all the features of information texts....
Across the world, tigers are endangered. As part of our latest persuasive writing unit, we have written letters to convince poachers to stop hunting tigers and given alternative solutions to earning money. Have a look at Anaiah’s fantastic letter!...
In writing we have been reading the story ‘The day the crayons quit’ which is about crayons who wrote letters to their owner. We are going to be writing our own letters but we are going to write them to ourselves from our school glue...
In writing we will be exploring the book ‘The Vanishing Rainforest’ as a stimulus for our work. To help us to immerse ourselves in the text, this week we identified what could be found in the rainforest and showed our learning through oil pastel landscapes....
In Reading this week we have been writing our own stories and then creating our own ‘test its’ to see how well our partner had read what we’d written. We wrote 5 different questions to see what our friends knew about our creative stories. We...
This week in History, year 2 have been learning about Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. In this lesson we were writing our diary entries as if we were the Queen walking wearing our coronation crown as the new monarch of the United Kingdom....
In our History lessons this term we have been learning about Ancient Egypt. Our enquiry question this week was ‘How did Ancient Egyptian civilisation end?’ We made breaking news reports explaining the decline of Queen Cleopatra and recorded them on our iPads....
In Writing we have been learning about non chronological reports so we researched facts about Ancient Egypt and wrote our own non-fiction text....