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:

• PE days for Term 2 are Wednesday and Thursday.
• 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.

Have a wonderful half term!

Miss Knapp

Thank you!

We loved celebrating European Day of Languages this week. We learnt about Italy in class and learnt how to say hello in Italian. We were also lucky to learn some French with Madame Thomas.

Ned brought us his giant courgette he grew at home to show us all. It was huge! We loved seeing the vegetable as it linked with the lyrics in one of our songs we are singing for harvest. The children asked if they could try some, so Mrs Slade and our lovely cook got some ready for us, and we all tried some. The feedback from the class was that it was delicious!

 (Miss Knapp's 750ml water bottle for size reference!)

In English, we have loved immersing ourselves in the book 'Where the Wild Things Are'. This week, we innovated the story ready to make our own version. The children changed it so Max went to space and met some aliens, or he went to unicorn land! They then created new characters and a new setting using expanded noun phrases to describe.

We created an online safety rap about 'Think Before You Click'. We learnt about how we have to be careful with ads, pop-ups and links when we are online and what we should do if you are not sure.

In history, we learnt how the Great Fire of London started! 

Star of the week will be given out on Monday because we were celebrating European Day of Languages today.

Reminders:

• PE days for Term 1 are Wednesday (gymnastics) and Thursday (team games).
• 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.
• Donations for harvest going to the foodbank are still welcome.
• If you have any old magazines, paper, tissue paper that you no longer need, we would love it to help us create our collages in art later in this term.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Knapp

First full week in year 2 complete!

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