Christmas Stockings

We have been busy sewing Christmas Stockings and decorating them. Don't they look fab!?

Trapped in a Snow Globe

This week we have been making snow globes in which we are trapped! We've also written stories about living inside a snow globe, which were great to read.

We Love Polar Bears

We have been learning all about polar bears and have found out some interesting facts about them.  For example, did you know they have black skin and webbed feet? We did some research and used this to make our own information pages on the computer.
Along the way we found out how polar bears are endangered because the ice is melting.  We have designed posters to tell people how we can help to save polar bears.

Save Olaf!

Today we have been doing a science investigation .... We know that Olaf loves warm hugs and the summer, so we need to keep him cold for as long as possible before Elsa can give him his own personal flurry. We have wrapped mini Olafs in different materials and have kept one as a control to see which one keeps Olaf as cold and as ice for longest. We had great fun!

Tinsel and Tea-towels

These are some photos from our Christmas production of 'Tinsel and Tea-towels'.  The children worked so hard learning lines and songs. Their performances were outstanding as they sang their hearts out.

The Northern Lights

As part of our Winter Wonderland topic we have created our own pictures of the Northern Lights using pastels.  We studied the shape of bare winter trees and then drew them on the horizon. Don't they look beautiful!

Winter Wonderland

This half term has been a very busy one as we have been learning about the polar regions as well as getting ready for Christmas.  We have read some lovely traditional Inuit stories called 'The Polar Bear Son' and 'Ka-ha-si and the Loon'. The children have enjoyed reading these stories and have produced some lovely writing.

Tennis

As part of our PE lessons we have been having tennis coaching. We've been learning lots of skills and having fun a long the way!

Children in Need

For Children in Need we did some fun activities linking our measuring in maths to chocolate! How far can you blow a malteser?  We had a great time!

Fun on the Farm Volume 1!

 

What a day Year 2 had at Sandfield-on-Sea recently!  Sorry ... Sandfield Farm!  But we felt like we were at the seaside as we looked at the farm and the activities we enjoy in a different light.  We even had typical British seaside weather: fairly warm but windy with a couple of showers.

We started off with a recap of what we needed to remember to stay safe on the farm: we're really good at this now, which will help us to stay safe when we're out and about in other places as well as the farm.  Then we were off to the den-building woods to make our own beach huts.  On the way, we walked carefully across a field that has been planted with stubble turnips ready for the cows to eat in the winter: on Christmas Day, they will have eaten their way across the whole field!  Huge round bales of straw are also in the field, ready to give the cows something nice to lie on.  At the moment, they're brilliant drums.

We stopped to look at the electricity pylons that cross the fields.  Because the air was damp, we could hear the wires humming so some of us didn't want to get too close.  We noticed that the pylons had their own number on a plaque so if something goes wrong, the National Grid know exactly where the problem is.

Once in the woods, we got to work on our huts.  We had different ideas about how to build them and what to put in them.  Some of us included doors, others included seats, and some even thought about toilets!  It was interesting to see how different our huts all were. 





After a quick snack, we went up to the pond where we built clay castles.  We found out that the pond is lined with clay and Emma and Mrs Capaldi dug some up for us to build with.  Our castles were fantastic!  We loved getting the clay between our fingers and feeling how squishy it was and we were all amazing architects and builders.



In the afternoon, we explored the play wood.  We liked the new music room, with its drums and pipes, and we were fascinated by the Guinea Fowl who are living in the wood at the moment: what a funny noise they make!  But most of all, we enjoyed playing together and using our imaginations.

R.E.

We listened to the story about Jesus by the Sea of Galilee and how he met Peter and borrowed his boat. He chose his disciples and said they would be fisher of men. We investigated mixing shades of blue and green and sponge printed the sea. Then we all decorated a fish for our collage of the huge catch of fish they made that day.

European Day of Languages

On Friday 26^th September the register was answered by senoritas in beautiful flamenco dresses, French onion sellers, Roman gladiators and various European footballers. Yes we were celebrating European Day of Languages. In Key Stage 1 we visited France, Switzerland and Spain during the morning. In Year 2 we were so lucky to have our own Spanish language teacher – Mrs Kenyon. She made it such fun learning colours in Spanish and told us why she loved Spain so much, showing us some beautiful photographs. She also organised a competition for all Key Stage 1 – more news on the result in our next posting.

Coming soon - Harvest, results of Competition, Farm Day, tennis 

ART

In week 1 we started our new sketchbooks. We looked at the fantastic illustrations in “The Fish Who Could Wish” by the illustrator Korky Paul. We found out about his life and looked closely at the detail in his drawings. He has illustrated over 45 children’s book and has loved drawing since he was 5 years old. We used our imaginations to draw our own fish and thought carefully about line and pattern.  Definitely some budding artists in Year 2.

Year 2 Class September 2014

Welcome to our Year 2 Blog.  We are enjoying being at the top of Key Stage 1 and have settled into our new class. Our topic is “Beside The Seaside” and what a great summer we have had!  We all shared our news in the first week back and in Literacy wrote about our holiday highlights.

"Oh we do like to be beside the seaside"

Read our Holiday Recounts - we had a fantastic time!

Then we read The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. We really enjoyed finding out about Mr. Grinling and guess what – he came and visited us at school (we think he might be related to Mrs Clelland – something familiar about the eyes?)

We wanted to help him stop those pesky seagulls from eating his lunch and invented some really revolting sandwiches.

D&T Vehicles

We finished our 'On the Move' topic by designing and making a wheeled vehicle. 

Parents and Grandparents were invited to come in and help their child. 

We had a wonderful morning and we are very proud of our designs.

Here we are designing and making our vehicles:

Leaya and Maddie worked wonderfully together, helping one another with construction.

Here we are testing our designs and seeing which vehicle travelled the furthest:

  

Look at our finished models: