We had LOTS of FUN making our very own LIVING PIRATE MUSEUM!!!!!!!! We worked with our friends to choose, research and create our very own exhibit for our Year 2 living pirate museum! We invited all the classes in school to come. We invited Mr Blackburn and Mrs Sowerby and all the other adults in school, and we invited our families! Everybody LOVED our museum and we had great fun creating it! Some of us sang songs. Some of us acted as famous pirates. Some of us made pirate food for visitors to taste. Some of us dressed up as pirates. We ALL had fun!!!!!
Find out what exciting learning we are going to be doing throughout the year!
This is our scoreboard of Mathletics certificates. See who has been working reeeeaaaallly hard on developing their maths skills! Can you make it to the number 1 spot?!?!
We had a great time at the Jewish Heritage Centre! We visited the Shtetl to see what a traditional Jewish village would've looked like, we plaited and baked traditional Jewish Challah bread, we created decorative covers for our challah bread, we visited the synagogue and we had lots of fun!
We enjoyed our visit from the famous author/ illustrator Lynne Chapman! She showed us how to draw characters for stories, she read us one of her stories and she even drew Miss Whittaker! Why not check out some more of Lynne Chapman's books at the library!
We made Photostories of The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch as though we were the main character, Mr Grinling!
We created electrical circuits and built our own working model lighthouses to see if we could help Mr. Grinling.
We made characters of the Giant from Jack and The Beanstalk using the Tellagami app on the ipads. We used adjectives, noun phrases and adverbs to describe the giant in the first person.
Joe & MaxWe loved reading 'Don't Read This Book' by Jill Lewis and Deborah Allwright! It is a story about a very demanding king who wants to hear a new story. Unfortunately the King's Story-Writer has lost his notes for the story and has to go on a funny journey to find them. We made Photostories on the iPads using pictures from the book. We also changed a part of the story. Watch and see if you can spot the parts Ali and Sophie and Tiegan and Rhiannon made up. Listen out for their expressive voices too!
In Science Week Year 2 received a very important message from a strange scientist asking for their help. He sent us lots of clues throughout the week and each clue led to a piece of evidence. The children had to solve the exciting clues and recover each piece of mysterious evidence. They then researched, using information books and the internet, to try and find out which dinosaur each piece of evidence pointed to. They were amazing scientists! After putting all of the evidence and their research skills together they worked out that the dinosaur was a ....... See if you can figure it out!
The strange scientist sent us another message when we had completed the mission! He was very pleased with our success! He did give us one final challenge though...
In a wave of creativity we made awesome pictures using Pic Collage on the iPads! We then went one step further and used Pic Collage to create diagrams of dinosaurs with labels. We LOVE Pic Collage! :)
During our research we discovered that fossilised T-Rex footprints show that T-Rex feet were about 1 metre long! We measured this out on the playground and drew it in chalk. Then we estimated how many of our feet would fit inside... Look at the pictures to find out! We then measured out the length of a T-Rex stride at a massive 3.7metres long! It took 5 children to stride the same length! Awesome maths :)
During our DINOSAUR topic we made dinosaur shadow puppets and dinosaur sock puppets!!! It was tricky but we had lots of perseverance and it was fun!
We made short films using our shadow puppets. Then we edited the films and added effects using iMovie. We filmed our short films in one take so there are a few live blips.... but they're still FAB!
Would it be fun if i were a pirate? Check out our pirate ship which we made using PE equipment, a few props and a BIG imagination!
Why not write something about dinosaurs? Did you enjoy learning about them? What did you enjoy the most? What was your favourite fact? What is your favourite dinosaur?
We had a visit from some awesome animals! Check out the 'Animals in Tuition' website to find out more! Why not write about your favourite nocturnal animal here?
We made our own curly, bouncing snakes by following a set of instructions. It took lots of reading, concentration and understanding..... WE DID IT!! Look at the results!
After finding out about the dark lives of real life pirates, what do you think and WHY?
Today the young writers of 2S wrote personification sentences about FIRE.... Read on to see how they used their writing skills to give FIRE human characteristics: KADEN - The fire flames danced into the sky. HARRISON - The enormous fire shook his flaming head at the sparkly, squirty water. SARAH - The fire stretched his arms to catch the wooden houses. SHANELLE - The colourful, orange fire stretched its red, burning arms to the sky. AYIN - Quickly but quietly the fire jumped from house to house. RAYHAAN - The fire climbed up the tree, then burned the houses. MATTHEW - The fire covered its face because it was scared of the water. KATIE - The warm fire walked slowly across the long, black street, stopping off at each wooden house. The toasty fire waved at the tall houses. SAM - The fire stretched and danced from house to house. YAZMIN - The fire was eating the sticks. What do YOU think? Can you write a personification sentence about FIRE?