Blog by Tag: Year 2

Look who came to see us in class today!  It’s none other than Harold the Giraffe.  This year he talked to us all about our feelings and emotions.

We went for a walk in our local area today. We discovered that some parts were quite busy whilst other areas were very quiet. We spotted lots of facilities to help the people in our local area, such as shops, pubs, a petrol station, playing field.....

We are learning what makes a sentence a sentence.  We know they need capital letters and full stops, and that they need to make sense.  It is much trickier to spot a sentence when the punctuation has been taken away.  Here we are using blu tack to locate the end of sentences.  It was very…

In literacy, we are reading the book ‘The Way Home for Wolf’.  It is a fabulous story and has inspired us to find out more about these beautiful creatures.  We’re going to write our own information texts next!

We have been exploring the four countries of the United Kingdom.  We learnt the names of the four countries, their capital cities and lots of fun facts about each one.  

The children enjoyed competing as a team against the other house teams to gain points. We remembered to apply the ‘Values of the School Games’ within the competition.

In literacy, we have been reading the story ‘The Way Home For Wilf’. Today we acted parts of the story and the rest of us had to guess which bit we were doing.  Our acting was so good everyone could guess which bit we were doing!

Our good friend, Debbie Green, came into class today to teach us all about the books of the bible.  It was lovely to see her again and we learnt a lot!

Across school, for National Poetry Week, the classes buddied up to share some time together to read poetry! Year 6 were lucky enough to have Year 2 as their buddies, and thoroughly enjoyed reading poems to the younger children and listening to them read also! 

We have been thinking more about the numbers to 100.  Today we practised making different numbers using the Base 10 equipment.  Mrs Cross then asked us to add or take away different amounts of tens or ones.

Look at our fabulous self portraits.  Can you tell who is who?

We have been learning all about the four countries of the United Kingdom including their capital cities.  This map on our classroom wall is there to remind us of their names.