This year year 2 are looking at songs with a call and response structure. This involves using listening skills to hear when it’s our turn to sing and responding to what we have heard. Our favourite call and response song at the minute is ‘Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?’ As you can probably see we are very animated in our calling and responding!
This week we are looking at money and it’s value. We played with the coins and worked out what coins we needed to make differing amounts. We found that different coins can be combined to make amounts and that it is all about addition, which we love!
In our Learning Means The World theme Land Ahoy we have been looking at how coding helps the ships navigate using algorithms and programs. We looked at block based programming and understood the concept of loops to make things move. We worked together to programe our angry birds movements so that it could capture the naughty pig. We were really good and understood how each block meant a different movement.
As part of Safer Internet week we completed some Safer Internet Day Assemblies and Boo Gets Cyber Smart workshops. We had a special visitor join us last week to talk about the importance of being safe online. Rebecca from Big Foot Art Education came in and told us all about how to be a SMARTY. We looked at the rules needed to keep us safe online and how we can recognised cyber bullying and unsafe materials. We also talked about how to spot a fake account and how much time is recommended per day for us to be online without causing tiredness, blurred vision and loss of focus.
As part of our Land Ahoy topic we looked at the life of a pirate and decided to design and create a remote control that would make his journey across the seas easier. We added a button to tell us about the weather, tv screen to watch their favourite show whilst steering the ship, voice recogniser so we could talk into it and relay instructions to the crew below deck to name just a few of the amazing adjustments we would make. We even talked about how to make it water proof, they are sailing the bumpy seas you know!
As part of our science lessons in ‘Land Ahoy’ we watched a life boat and how it is transported from the garage to the sea. We decided to design and construct our own boat transporter. We worked in teams to design what we would build, made a list of what we would need to complete the task then we worked together to build our transporter. We worked well together discussing our ideas and trialing them then improving them until we were happy with our finished design. We then let our class mates see our design and showed them how it worked. It was amazing and we really showed off our engineering skills!
In P.E this half term we are exploring dance. We loved learning about Paddington from Peru and the rainforest he lived in so we decided that our dance theme was going to be about an explorer in the jungle. We started at home, travelled to the rainforest, set up camp, explored the jungle, made a camp then found a mysterious object. We used our bodies to show the movement and our faces to show the differing expressions. We had great fun moving our bodies in different directions and on different levels.
This week we received a letter from Aunt Lucy all the way from deepest, darkest Peru and she was asking Paddington all about his time in London and with his new family, the Brown’s. We (Paddington) planned our letter and made sure we answered all her questions using subordinating conjunctions and adjectives. I think you will agree that Aunt Lucy is going to be so pleased when she receives our replies!
In our new theme Paddington’s Passport we have been looking at the country of his birth, Peru. We decided to make a poster to show the Brown’s and other what Peru is like and why it is so special to Paddington. I am sure you’ll want to visit Peru too when you see our informative posters!
We have started our music lessons with Mr. O and we have been looking at quarter and eighth beats. We kept the rhythm and beat going and stayed away form the naughty beat in our competition. We have some great skills at keeping time and listening for the different rhythms.
