Blog by Tag: Year 2

This afternoon, we were investigating axels for our new DT topic on vehicles. The children were given some materials and had to work out how to make a moving vehicle. It was tricky but we managed to make some good ones. We will use this knowledge to design and make our own vehicles later this…

Today, we continued our work on Yayoi Kusama and looked at different techniques for creating dots. We used paint and different tools, pastels, felt tips and collage. 
 

What an eventful World Book Day! We had to take part in Miss Helen’s dance lesson in our costumes, we had to stop mid maths test to do some reading when Mrs Walsh rang her bell, we did a book cover quiz with Year 5 (which we had to stop midway through for more reading!) and Milo’s mum and James’…

We have Miss Helen this half term to help us with our dancing. We are dancing like animals in different habitats.

This week, we have been using rulers to measure. We have centimetre rulers and metre rulers. Here we are finding objects taller/longer or shorter than a metre. We have also measured the school hall and found out that it’s 15m long!

This afternoon, we have been looking at the portrait work by the British artist Julian Opie (you might remember his artwork on the Best of Blur album). We used photographs to trace our faces with simple features onto plastic wallets. They are displayed on our classroom windows.

This afternoon, we have been inspired by Pablo Picasso to show feeling in our portraits. We have used warm and cool colours to show happiness or sadness.

In our art lesson this week, we were trying out different sketching techniques to help when we start sketching our self portraits next week.

This afternoon, we were learning about animations and how they still pictures played quickly. We used the app Pivot animator to make simple animations of a stick man.

This morning, we were practising our cutting skills. We are going to be designing and making a decoration so we will need to be masters with our scissors!

This afternoon, a fireman from Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service came in to talk to us about fire safety at home. 
 

We learned to stop, drop and roll if our clothes were on fire (as demonstrated by Wilf in the pictures below!).

We learned about smoke alarms and escape plans if a fire were…

This morning, we went for a walk around Scotforth to help us with our English and geography work over the next couple of weeks.