Autumn
Today we had lots of fun in PE with coach Adam learning how to avoid being tagged. We made quick changes of direction and kept our bodies between the tagger and our tails. We have improved our dodging skills!
In Science, we planted pea seeds and investigated conditions for growth and how a seed germinates. After half term our seeds had started to germinate! We are taking part in 'farm in a box' activities, exploring plant growth and how food is made. Look out for our wildflowers around school.
We have been learning how to subtract across a 10.
In music we have been learning the song, 'Hands, Feet, Heart,' by Joanna Mangona and songs about The Great Fire of London. We have learned how to play them on the glockenspiel and today performed as a round. We have started to find out about stave notation and the duration of notes.
We have loved learning all about The Great Fire of London in history and comparing events with The Great Fire of Gateshead and Newcastle. Ask us about both, we know lots of facts! We painted our own scenes and added silhouettes.
During IT, we went back in time to 1666 and witnessed The Great Fire of London taking place...
We have had lots of Halloween fun!
Meeting Farmer Andrew
We took part in a zoom call with Farmer Andrew as part of Warburton's Farm in a Box activities and asked lots of questions about life on his farm. We found out about how grain is harvested and how wheat turns into bread. What farming life is like and some of the processes and tractors used. How technology is used in farming and making flour. We also learned about food miles and sustainability, how the weather impacts farming and different crops. Farmer Andrew uses solar panels to produce energy and to make his fields more productive, we found out about renewable energy and are looking forward to meeting Farmer Helen soon.
Art Week!
This week we have been finding out about Georgia O'Keeffe and modernism. We have explored her paintings and how we could create art like her. In addition, we have developed our sketching techniques using shading, hatching, stippling, blending and erasing and learned about visual elements in art.
Farm in a box
There has been great excitement in Year 2 this week as we have received our 'farm in a box' kit. So far we have investigated what is germination, what seeds need to germinate and what plants need to grow. We have planted our own pea seeds and explored what is inside a seed. We handled wheat ears and tried crushing our own grains. Finally we explored textures through touch and how the items in the feely bags connected to farms. We had feathers, hay, straw, wool and wheat grains.
100% Attendance!
Well done Year Two I am very proud of you. Today you celebrated completing your 100% attendance award with popcorn, crisps, sweets and juice very kindly organised by Mrs Longstaff. A film and time outside on the climbing frame and you're half way through the next one already! Keep it going.
The Great Fire of Gateshead and Newcastle
Did you know that on Friday the 6th October 1854 a fire broke out in Gateshead? It spread to a warehouse containing explosives and lots of buildings were destroyed. It spread across into Newcastle and this week has marked the 170th anniversary of the events. We visited the Discovery Museum and took part in a series of workshops finding out all about this fire and explored artefacts, dressed up as Victorians, retold events through creating the sounds, made puppets and re-enacted what happened as characters from the time. We had a fabulous day. Ask us all about it!
"I'll be driving tractors, underneath the hot sun..." We loved taking part in our Harvest Festival celebrations this week and thank you to everyone for all of your contributions.
We had lots of fun carrying out our own materials investigations and exploring which variable we changed. Some of us changed the amount of time we allowed for the water before measuring, some of us changed the amount of water we used and some of us repeated our experiment changing the type of material we were investigating to check the validity and reliability of our results. We made a hypothesis and discussed how our investigation was fair.
Money and Measures Area
We are enjoying using our practical area to explore measures and real money in our pic 'n' mix shop. In our class reading journal novel, the main character falls through some lemon sherbets, down a chute into a fairytale so we created our own fairytale forest and chute through some pic 'n' mix into a fairytale.
Which materials are best for an umbrella?
We investigated which materials would be the best for an umbrella and why. Ask us how we carried out our experiment and how we ensured that it was fair. Afterwards, we shared our results and drew conclusions then considered the reliability and validity of our results. Independently, we designed our own further investigation and made a hypothesis. We are really enjoying learning about materials and discovering and applying lots of new vocabulary!
TTRS Launch!
We launched TTRS and are ready to start playing games, collecting coins and having tournaments. Don't forget to go on at home your log ons are in your homework books.
What materials are different objects made from and why?
In Science, we have been exploring what materials different things are made from and which materials are suited to different objects for different reasons. We explored natural and man made materials, sorted them and compared. We also looked at how an object, for example a cup or a spoon, might be made of various materials and why.
Have you filled a Bucket Today?
We read the book, 'Have you Filled a Bucket?' and talked about ways in which we could fill our own buckets and those of others. We write kind things to each other and thank each other often and we put our messages into each other's buckets then, once a week, we read all of our messages. Ask us how we help each other and show friendship to one another.
Finding tens and ones and making numbers.
We have been learning how to partition numbers and have used < > and equals to compare.
We created a class charter for Year Two and talked about what we felt was important in our class and how we could be a team together. Ask us what things we agreed should be on our charter. We signed our charter and made promises to try our best to fulfil it.
Which materials change their shape? Can we bend, twist, stretch or squash them?
In Science we have been learning about different materials and their properties. We planned, carried out and evaluated an investigation into which materials changed their shape. Ask us what our results were and if our hypothesis was correct.