Wild!

5th February 2020R Smith

Year 2 have been reading ‘Wild’ by Emily Hughes about a little girl who lives in the forest with the animals. We visited West Boldon Lodge to experience a woodland setting for ourselves. Whilst there we learnt about nocturnal woodland animals and their habitats, and we made dens for hedgehogs! We also made our own hedgehogs using clay, pine cones, sticks and other natural materials. We were able to hunt for minibeasts and think about where in the woods we would find them. Year 2 had a great day exploring in the fresh air!

Year Two Spring Term Focus Text

14th January 2020R Smith
We have just started out Literacy topic using the book Wild.
We are linking to closely to another book called “The fox and the star”.
The children will be focusing on characters and how they can live in different settings that can sometimes be unusual. This will link to our science topic plants. We will focus on the main character from the book Wild and created our own representation of her. We will think  about what type of character she may be based upon only her appearance.
Here is a retelling of the story Wild

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Year 2 @The Word

6th January 2020R Smith
Year 2 visited the word last week to take part in Christmas computing activities. The children used 2Simple to create their own Christmas baubles. We created symmetrical patterns to make our snowflake shapes. They were then laser cut to create our decorations. In the afternoon we sang christmas songs and recorded a video of us singing.

Non-Chronogical Reports

15th November 2019R Smith
Year 2 are currently preparing to write non chronological reports in literacy about Robins. We have been using the ipads and information sheets to find out all about the appearance, diet, habitat and behaviour of Robins. We used the RSPB website to support our research and found out lots of interesting facts. We have been learning to use the conjunctions ‘if’ and ‘when’ in our sentences, using different sentence openers and writing questions such as “Did you know Robins use the stars to help them navigate?”. Well done year 2!

Beamish

30th September 2019R Smith

Year 2 visited Beamish to find out what it was like to go to school years ago. We arrived at the school house and were met by a lady dressed in real old clothes. The teacher rang the bell and we were transported back over 100 years to 1913! Boys and Girls had to line up separately and walk in total silence. We enjoyed our experience so much, we did our numeracy on peg boards and handwriting on slate and sand boxes! We even had time to look around Beamish and all purchased some sweets from the old sweet shop.