We have had a great time at our Halloween disco. We all looked scarily good too!
We have been learning about the early life of Moses and the importance of the story of the burning bush. We also looked at the importance of Hanukkah and Passover in Jewish life.
Michael Jordan
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something, but I can’t accept not trying”
We have started our new Learning Means The World theme ‘Zero to Hero’ and one of the first people we have looked at is Michael Jordan. We found out that he was turned away from basketball but because he loved the sport he kept trying and trying until he was successful. We then decided that we needed to be a bit like Michael and keep trying our best. We then went outside and tried to shhot some hoops. We found that we got better the more we practiced. We then found out that Nike thought he was that inspirational that they named some sports shoes after him! We decided to design our own ‘Air Jordan’s’.
In our P.E sessions we have been looking at the skill of jumping and that there are many different ways to jump. We have travelled safely whilst jumping and made up a jumping routine with our friends. We have even been learning how to do a standing long jump (Olympics team watch this space!). We have a jumping great time.
In our Learning Means The World theme ‘Inter-Nation Media Station’ we have been looking at how tv shows, radio broadcasts and interviews are made. We have looked at the first radio broadcast and the first tv broadcast that changed from black and white to colour. We can not quite believe that some of our Teachers were around when there were only 4 TV channels and they had not heard of a remote control! We love learning about how far our technology has come and we decided to have a go at animating our own character and adding a voice to it. We then discussed what technological advances the future may hold ….time machine perhaps?
We loved having our parents join us for our reading and phonics workshop. We hope you had lots of fun and enjoyed seeing us working hard.
We celebrated world mental health day by being kind to each other and ourselves. We discussed the feeling we get when someone is kind or unkind to us then we took part in drawing and designing our own mental health day pictures.
In 2 blue we are working on a Four Seasons Project and the first season we are looking at is Autumn. We have discussed what happens in this season, different types of trees and the colours and feelings we have during Autumn. We went on an Autumn walk and created pictures using Autumnal items that we found along the way.
We have been looking at Jingles and how we can keep the pulse of the music. We have loved learning about echo and call and repeat music and we are able to talk about the difference between them. We then added some instruments and actions to our songs to keep the beat and explain what the vocals were telling us.
In 2 Blue we have had a great start to our year 2 journey. We have worked together to create our class guidelines, looked at and created our own pointillism art and designed and made our own worry dolls to use in case we have a worry that we want to share. We are looking forward to the rest of the year because if it is as fun as the first week then are in for a treat! 
