Christmas Celebrations have started in 2 Blue!

10th December 2024L Chisholm

Our R.E. day this term looked at how light is used as a symbol in all religions. Diwali with the lamps,  Hanukkah with the Menorah, and Christianity with advent.  We found that Christianity uses light as a representation of hope and joy.  We made a Christingle and talked about what each part represented.  The orange = the world, the ribbon = Gods love, the candle = Jesus, the sticks = the four seasons and the sweet treats = all of Gods creations.  We enjoyed creating our Christingle and were excited to bring them home to talk about them with our grown ups.

Journalists of the future!

9th December 2024L Chisholm

In 2 blue this week we have been using computers and texts to research our favourite hero from our theme ‘Zero To Hero’. We wrote down all of the information we thought was important.  We then went to the computer suite where we were shown how to use ‘Word’ to produce our writing.  We were then taught how to change the size, type and colour of the font and how to search for, and insert a picture of our hero.  We really enjoyed using these skills to make our work more interesting.

Arty feet

18th November 2024L Chisholm

We have been looking at the artist Christy Brown.  We found out that he had Cerebral Palsy and that his only working limb was his left leg.  He created his fantastic drawings with his left foot.  We were so inspired that we decided to have a go ourselves and we soon found out that it was harder than we thought it was going to be.  Christy Brown is certainly a hero!

Engineers of the future

18th November 2024L Chisholm

Over the last week we have been looking at all the different components of a circuit, bulbs, batteries, wires and switches.  Today we used our knowledge to create a working circuit.  We used the crocodile clips to attach our components and watched what happened when the circuit was broken.  We created a simple circuit and then drew a technically correct drawing using the correct symbols for each component.

Tremendous Tumbling!

7th November 2024L Chisholm

We took part in our first gymnastics PE session with the coach.  We looked at the correct form and posture needed to create a safe and controlled forward, pencil, tuck and backwards roll.  We had a great time and can’t wait for next week to learn new skills.

Battery Brainiacs!

7th November 2024L Chisholm

In our theme of ‘Zero To Hero’ we have been looking at Thomas Eddison who created the lightbulb and how we use this invention daily.  We then looked at how we can make lightbulbs and other equipment work using electricity with mains power and battery power.  We looked at different batteries and thought about what toys we had at home that needed batteries to work.

Adding 3 numbers in 2 Blue

23rd October 2024L Chisholm

If you are ever stuck on how to add 3 digits together just ask one of us! We are amazing and found that we could use our 10’s frames to place each number.  We then realised that once we had made them the other number was easy to see. We are experts now and were able to answer some mastery questions.

Marvellous Moses and our thankful Menorah

21st October 2024L Chisholm

As part of R.E. we have been learning about Moses and how important he is within the Jewish religion. We looked at the early years of Moses and designed a slider to show Moses floating along the river in his basket. We then read the story of the Burning Bush and how God instructed him to go and release the Israelites. After that, we looked at how Passover is celebrated and we designed our our Sedar plate then thought about all the ways we are thankful and added tham to our Menorah candles.

Future stars of the Media!

18th October 2024L Chisholm

In 2 Blue this week we have been looking at what Media stars and people working in the media industry work with.  We looked at some of the equipment and decided that they have a lot of buttons to remember.  We then experimented with our very own podcast station and we interviwed our friend using questions that we had created.  We each took a turn asking and answering the questions and obviously experimenting with the different sound buttons on the pod cast machine! At the end of the session we decided that we wanted to generate some questions to use to interview Mrs Moody. We came up with some corkers that we can’t wait to hear the answers to!

Year 2 using their mind (map!)

18th October 2024L Chisholm

In English this week we have been looking at finding information about the text we are reading.  We have found a skill that helps us dig deeper into what we predict the book could be about.  The children were introduced to the front cover of Tad by Benji Davies and before we even opened the book we decided to dig into our minds to think of ideas the book could be about and what vocabulary we may come across.  We worked in teams and created a ‘Mind Map’ of our ideas and connections. We were then able to read the story undertand the vocabulary and sequence with greter depth.