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13 March 2024

Funky fingers!

Our year two funky fingers learned how to finger knit! With patience and skill we made some colourful bangles! 

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11 March 2024

Playing the glockenspiels

We enjoyed playing the glockenspiels for the first time this week! We played along to nursery rhymes, first of all matching the rhythm, and then tapping to the beat!

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8 March 2024

Minibeasts!

We have done lots of learning about minibeasts this week. Identifying different minibeasts we find in the garden and their habitats. The children have been using fine motor skills to catch the minibeasts with tweezers. We have completed observational drawings, minibeast tracing and building…

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29 February 2024

Observational Drawings of Flowers

This week we have been learning all about plants. The children have shown an interest in drawing different flowers and we looked at the different shapes and parts of a plant. Some children were able to name different parts of the plant as they were drawing it. We looked closely at what colours we…

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28 February 2024

Funky Fingers

Today in funky fingers our year 2 children got creative peg boards! They created some amazing patterns! They also made some very impressive structures with the construction straws!

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8 February 2024

Pre - Writing Shapes

This week we have been tracing around different shapes. We have then practised forming the shapes independently. Our pencil grips have improved so much since September and our control with a pencil is always improving. 
Great work Ducklings 

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7 February 2024

Writing Our Names!

We are beginning to write our names in nursery as we are now able to recognise them. We used our name cards to copy letters from our name. 
Super writing! 

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31 January 2024

Funky fingers!

Our year 2s got chatty making their chatter box’s today! They made them very colourful and shared some very kind  and positive comments to each other!

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30 January 2024

Drawing a polar bear!

We have been practising our use of line and shape in art this week, by drawing polar bears using our observational skills. We started with a small circle in the middle of the page to create the nose, and then worked our way out, adding further circles for the head, eyes and ears. We drew curved…

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30 January 2024

Pre - Writing Shapes

This week we have been tracing around different shapes. We have then practised forming the shapes independently. Our pencil grips have improved so much since September and our control with a pencil is always improving. 
Great work Ducklings 

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26 January 2024

Describing Jack Frost

We wrote simple captions to describe the character, 'Jack Frost'. Within our captions, we used different adjectives to describe and applied our Phase 2/Phase 3 phonics to spell. We are becoming much more independent when using a finger space between words.

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25 January 2024

Funky fingers fun!

Here are our year 2s getting super creative with the play dough! We had some very interesting and detailed models!

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