Blog by Tag: Year 2

We have been learning all about 2D shapes in maths.  Today we had to use rulers to draw them very carefully.  Here we are practising drawing straight lines on our whiteboards.  It was a lot trickier than it looked but we managed it!

This week we looked at the amazing animals found on the continent of Africa.  After exploring these animals we looked closely at the colour and texture of their skin.  We used careful observation to draw the patterns before using our painting skills to match…

Another example of our very careful drawing and painting today.

We also made finger puppets this afternoon.  Again we had to think carefully about the colours we used.  We also had to cut out our animal templates including two very tricky inner circles for our fingers.

This half term we are learning to be gymnasts.  So far we have practised our jumping skills and here we are learning to travel in different ways.  Can you tell which animal we are?  You may have spotted we are moving sideways!! 

Not quite the real thing but at least we found some British animals in our playground.

We started our new topic off in the playground (in spite of the rain) with a search for some British animals.  We knew lots of them were nocturnal so Mrs Cross may have helped us out and put some pictures out to help us!

The two performances of The Landlord's Cat were amazing and everyone did a fantastic job with their singing, dancing, acting, learning lines and signing. We hope you enjoyed it.

We had a fantastic time at our Christmas party! Lots of singing, dancing and playing lots of games.

Today we used the ten frames to practise quite a tricky but very important skill in maths.  We were learning to use ten to add numbers.  This means that instead of using our fingers to calculate 6 + 7, we used our number bonds to make the sum 6 + 4 + 3.  As we know 6 + 4 = 10 already, we only have…

This week we did an art project inspired by Bonfire Night.  We worked in teams to create a bonfire collage.