Sunday 19 October 2014

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.

Wednesday 8 October 2014

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 26th 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.