Blog by Tag: Year 2

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.

We made plasticine reliefs of our faces in art this week.  Do you think they look like us?

Today, Year 2 went on a visit around our local area, to consolidate our term’s learning where we have focused upon the area in which we go to school!
Over the weeks, we have looked at aerial photographs and maps of Lancaster and, after zooming in further, Scotforth! We learned about human and…

Today in Year 2 we have been using our senses and talking about the body parts linked to each sense. We tasted different foods, tried to guess what was in each smell pot, listened to some sounds and tried to identify them and built Lego towers while blindfolded.