Jammed packed last week of year 2!

We enjoyed the last day of turnaround with our new teacher and I loved getting to know my new class for September.

Kestrels wrote letters to me to tell me all about their favourite things from year 2. It was lovely to read all about the things they have enjoyed this year.

We answered the big question in Science: What do we need to stay healthy? The children put all their learning from the term to create a poster answering the question. 

It would be great to see lots of children receiving certificates in September for completing The Summer Reading Challenge with the library. It is a great way to keep reading during the summer holidays, plus you get lots of cool stickers and a badge.

It has been a wonderful year in Kestrels. We've learned so much and grown in confidence every step of the way. It's been a year full of curiosity, creativity, and lots of fun. Well done to all our brilliant Year 2s – we’re so proud of everything you've achieved!

Have a wonderful summer holidays!

Miss Knapp

We have been working hard learning samba rhythms to perform in By Brook's Music Concert next week as a class. The children have loved exploring rhythms and using different percussion instruments.

In English, we finished and edited our poems about the ocean and pollution in the ocean. The children then wrote them up in the neatest handwriting and created artwork to go with them. 

We have been focusing on arithmetic in maths this week and putting all our learning through the year together.

In computing, we continued exploring ScratchJr. We had to use a given design to make the sprite have a speech bubble when tapped and then make the background change. The children loved getting to use other command blocks on ScratchJr and making their sprite do different things.

We then used our new knowledge of using a tap function, backgrounds and speech bubble to start creating a quiz on ScratchJr. We had the question 'Who lives here?' and tapped the different sprites which would make a speech bubble appear with yes or no. We used the background feature to help know who lives here too. 

Reminders:

• Please come and support the children's artwork they created for By Brook Valley's Gallery Night on Tuesday after school. We would love to see you all, and the children are excited to show you all their artwork! 
• Turnaround Days are on Thursday and Friday (and the following Monday). Please make sure your child(ren) goes to Ospreys for these days.
• PE days for Term 6 are Wednesday (ultimate frisbee) and Thursday (athletics).
• Please bring in reading books and reading records every day and read 5 times a week at home. Remember an adult needs to sign the reading records.
• Spellings will come home on Monday. Please practice these every day at home ready for our spelling test on Fridays.
• Practice your times tables on TTRockstars using the login stuck in your reading record.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Knapp

 

What a busy week we have had in the sunshine!

A great first week back to start our last term in year 2!

This week in maths we have been looking at millilitres and litres. After discovering what millilitres are and what we might measure in millilitres, the children explored different measuring equipment and read different scales on the jugs in millilitr