Over this half term, Year 2 have enjoyed their gymnastics lessons in PE. We have learnt how to construct a controlled roll, balance and jump. Once we were confident with these, we began linking the movements together and ensuring our sequences flowed well. To progress our gymnastics abilities even further, we went on to carry out these elements on apparatus. We observed each other’s sequences and gave constructive ways forward to one another.
Year 2’s non-narrative unit this half term has been letters. They looked at different letters and identified the features of a letter. Then we learned about statement sentences and wrote our own questions and statements. As an end outcome, we thought of questions to ask King Charles III and wrote a letter to him. We then walked to the post box to post our letters! We hope that we get a reply!
Year 2 have been sculptors this week.
During our art lesson Year 2 have been using the artist Julian Opie as an inspiration to create our own piece of art.
We have used clay to create self-portraits in the style of Julian Opie.
We thought about the lines Opie uses and incorporated these in our sculptures to create our features.
We began by recreating the shape of our faces with our clay. We needed to carve the shape before cutting the excess clay off to leave us with a face to add our features to.
We needed to mould and manipulate the clay to create our features. We rolled clay for our eyes before rolling and cutting pieces of clay to create other features such as eyebrows and lips. Our nose took much more moulding and shaping with our hands to ensure the correct size and look.
We are very proud of our finished self-portraits and are excited for them to dry.
Year 2 are really enjoying our current topic in Science, Uses of Everyday Materials. So far we have identified different materials and found objects in and around that school that are made of them. This week we carried out an experiment to identify which materials are waterproof.
First we predicted which materials we thought would be waterproof. Then we gathered our equipment to carry out the test. We discussed how we needed to keep the test fair, by ensuring we used the same amount of water on each item. Then we got to the fun part – testing.
We used pipettes and 20 droplets of water on each item. We were surprised to see that kitchen roll was the least waterproof! The experiment confirmed many of our predictions that plastic is a waterproof material
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Year 2 have been celebrating Safer Internet Day today. This morning, we had a special assembly with Mr Morgan to talk about being safe on the internet. This afternoon, we discussed different reasons people use the internet. Then we found friends in our class who use the internet for different purposes and discussed these. After discussing why we use the internet, we then thought about strategies to keep us save and shared these as a class.
For story time, we read the story of Smartie the Penguin and used what we have learned to help him to learn how to be safe on the internet.
In Year 2, children coloured in a paper person to represent themselves and their individuality..
Children then sat with a person who they don’t usually sit with in the classroom.
Their challenge was to find out what similarities and differences they had with that person.
They listened carefully to each other and were fantastic at taking turns to speak.
Children then fed back to the rest of the class.
Year 1 had a fantastic science lesson exploring the properties of materials. We had some meaningful discussions on when objects were designed what materials did the designers use and why? We explored objects in and outside the classroom, here were some of our findings:
“A pillow is made out of fabric and is soft. This is because if it was hard you wouldn’t get a very good sleep”. -Oliver F
“A ball is made out of rubber and is bouncy and flexible. This means we can play with it.”-Harlow P
“A bench is made from wood which is hard. If it wasn’t hard we would fall off and hurt our bottoms!”- Leo W
“A window is made of glass, it is transparent so we can look out of it to see if we need to wear a coat if it’s raining”- Lacie P
“A bucket is made of plastic which is waterproof. If not the water would fall out the bottom”.- Rellie T
“A whiteboard rubber is made of sponge which is absorbent. It can soak up the water… see!”- Georgie B
This week in music year 2 have been looking at rhythms.
We began by appraising our new song ‘Listen’. We liked how the sound of this made us feel. It made us feel full of energy and wanting to join in. We could hear lots of instruments like drums and guitars. We could also hear people clapping rhythms and we could not wait to join in.
We practised our new song and had a go at copying the rhythm with our hands. We practised these in lots of different ways. We had a go as a table, individually, in partners, as boys and girls and also the back of the class and the front.
Some of the rhythms were pretty trick but we kept practising and got really good.
We even got to copy some rhythms with our voices, this was much harder as we had to think about the pace and the tone our voices made.
Over the last couple of weeks Year 2 have been learning about the importance of teamwork.
Children worked together to plan and design a bird for our ‘Garden of Dreams and Goals’
This week, children worked together to make their birds! Fantastic teamwork was demonstrated by all groups!
Year 2 have started a new unit in Maths this week; Multiplication and Division. First of all we recapped our knowledge on the vocabulary equal and unequal. Equal means that all groups have to be the same. Then we learned to recognise equal groups. Today we have learned how to make equal groups! Here we are making equal groups in class:
Tomorrow we will learn to add equal groups!