Happy new year! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas break.
Final week of Autumn term!
A brilliant week full of Nativity performances!
In English, we have been looking at subordinating conjunctions and how they can help us extend our sentences by giving reasons. This is going to help us when we create our persuasive writing on why we need a school garden. We then created our for and against reasons for this argument ready to write our pieces next week.
For maths, we have focused on arithmetic style questions and reasoning questions to help us with strategies for answering these types of questions. It was a good chance to recap all the learning we have done so far in year 2!
In history, we answered our big question 'What was the impact of the Great Fire of London'. The children used all their knowledge from autumn term to create posters and mind maps to showcase their answers.
Our nativity rehearsals have been going brilliantly, and we are excited to show you all next week! We are still missing some costumes, so please make sure you have brought them in as we will be doing a dress rehearsal on Monday.
Star of the Week is….
Camilla! For always demonstrating our school promises.
Reminders:
Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Knapp
Thank you to who came to our linger and learn session this week for History. The children loved involving you in being historians, looking at what different sources tell us about the Great Fire of London.
In English, we finished our unit on diary writing. The children imagined they were in 1666 when the Great Fire of London started and wrote a diary entry about this. They made sure to write in the past tense, use time conjunctions, expanded noun phrases and included their thoughts and feelings.
We started looking at money in maths this week. We looked at the different coins and notes and made given amounts. We also used different coins and notes to make the same amounts.
In music, we continued to look at how music can help tell a story. We looked at Little Red Riding Hood and used dynamics and tempo to help tell the different parts of the story.
We had our last forest school session this week. The children wrapped up warm and got stuck in making their shelters. Mr Summers even made a 'swing' which the children loved.
Star of the Week is….
Tom! For great expanded noun phrases in his diary writing.
Reminders:
Have a wonderful weekend!
Miss Knapp
A busy week celebrating many important causes.
A wonderful first week of term 2.
We wrote our instructions on how to make an apple cake after we made it last week. The children used their knowledge of instructions to include time conjunctions, imperative verbs and adverbs.
In maths, we have been adding and subtracting 10s. We used the base 10 to help us with the calculations and noticed that when adding 10s, only the 10s change, the ones stay the same!
We finished our collages in art this week. We used a variety of paper to create a London Skyline on our watercoloured skies we created. The children thoroughly enjoyed collaging and they turned out amazingly!
Star of the Week is….
Oscar! For an improved positive attitude to his learning.
Reminders:
Have a wonderful half term!
Miss Knapp
Thank you!
