Computing
Today we used the laptops to practice changing, the font, letter size and the colour of our font.
Forest School - Den building
The children worked in teams today to build a den, they had to think carefully about how they were going to build their den and what offered the most protection, if it rained. Super team work by all - well done!
Autumn Leaves
Today we have created autumn leaves, we have used wax crayons to create a line drawing. Then using paint we have added colour creating a wax resistant leaves.
Forest school. Smile - You’ve been framed!
In after school, Forest School today we practiced our knot tying skills to make picture frames! Smile - we did!
Drawing club!
Here are some of the fabulous self portraits that our year 2’s have created! Some amazing look a likes! Well done year 2!
Mud painting!
Today in Forest School, after school club we made our own paint using mud! We dug for mud, mixed with water and painted pictures. We also hunted for bugs, we are starting to be able to name some bugs now. The rain came but we still had fun!
Amazing artists!
Today we have been exploring different mediums. We have used pencils/handwriting pens to complete observational drawings of the objects we collected last week to create replicas of Andy Goldsworthy’s work. Today we focused on continual line drawing and the results were fantastic.
Exploring the woods
Today we explored Trentmill Nature Reserve to help us with our setting description. We described what we say, what we heated and what we felt.
Forest school, nature hunt!
Year 2’s first session, we explored our out door area hunting for leaves, twigs, birds, rocks, flowers and bugs! We had great fun!
Gymnasts in training
This half term our focus is on gymnastics. This week our learning intention was how can you track in different ways. We started off with a game called Astronauts to warm us up. Here we focused on different ways to travel. Once we were all warmed up we moved onto recapping the different jumps we’d…
Fantastic flexible partitioning
In maths we used the base ten to help us flexibly partition numbers to 100. We created two groups and wrote the number sentences. This helped us see that numbers can be made up in different ways.
Flexibly partitioning numbers to 100
We used base 10 to help us to flexibly partitioning numbers to 100 in lots of different ways. The practical apparatus helped us in securing our knowledge and understanding.