We have been learning how to tell the time. We challenged ourselves to tell various times from O’clock, half past, quarter past, quarter to and all the other 5 minute intervals of time. At first we found it tricky but we kept trying and now we are time masters.
As part of our Learning Means The World theme ‘Going Wild’ we have been looking at various pieces of African music. We found where Africa is and what sort of music is popular in African culture. We looked at the tempo, instruments used and how the music made us feel. We then worked as a team to compose our own African music.
This week we have been looking at how our heart rate changes and what activities make it go faster or slower. We took part in a few games and exercises then we sorted pictures of activities. We loved the feeling our heart made when we were very active!
In our computing lesson we have been creating Google slides to showcase our knowledge of our pets. We added pictures, information, changed the background and saved our work. We have been learning new skills and are able to create presentations that can be shared with the class!
In year 2 we have been looking at 2 step maths problems and thinking about different skills we need to use in order to work them out. We are using our reasoning and problem solving board to catch the information we need, draw out our ideas then answer the question. We are amazing!
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!
