Our Roald Dahl collaborative learning project was successfully completed - the children explored each groups and voted for the one they thought best achieved the learning objective. The children then, with great maturity, analysed the advantages and disadvantage of group learning, thinking carefully about how they preferred to work and what they had learned from working in a group.

Last week we completed our numeracy learning about division - as grouping and sharing as well as repeated subtraction. These two weeks work on multiplication and division have propelled us into this weeks numeracy - problem solving where the children need to identify which operation they need to use and, in turn, how they want to calculate the sum - tricky stuff!!!! The words just seem to get in the way!!!!!! We thought carefully about all the vocabulary used with each operation to help us decide what the questions were asking us to do.........well done, you are working very hard!!!!!!


Thank you to Fynn's mum who came in to read the class a story - the children thoroughly enjoyed it! Again, if you would like to come in and read, just drop me a note or catch me in the morning - we would love you to come in!!!!!

I was totally and utterly bowled over by your home learning - outstandingly good learning, creativity, presentation and effort - you should all be tremendously proud of yourselves!!!!! It was so good that we are using it in our science rota - entitled "learning from each other" - All that learning needs to be shared!!!!!!!! When we have displayed it I will blog a picture!

Another well done to ALL of you for your sound/phonics check - you have all improved!!!! Fantastic!!!

Life Ed van today was very exciting too - we showed off our amazing knowledge about the body ( I think we are breeding a class of biologists/future doctors!) We also learned about feelings.

Before I sign off, thank you to those of you who came to the information morning - I have, hopefully managed to add tasks on mathletics and open other levels for mathletics live (any probs please pop in), I also located all the certificates - currently TRYING to print them!!!!!!

Have a rest - swimming on Thursday!!!!!!

Mrs. Johnson

Lost shoes!

Hi there!

Just a quick request - a pair of new school shoes have vanished following after school football on Monday - if you could please check bags that would be great!

Thanks,

Mrs. Johnson

Learning update!

Hi everyone,

We launched a collaborative learning project today with the aim to produce information and facts about Roald Dahl, working as a team, choosing how to collect and collate information by Friday! A super bustling atmosphere with everyone fully involved.


Numeracy saw us launch into learning about division: as sharing, repeated subtraction and some children wanted to know what happened if it didn't share out equally - this lead to remainders!!!!!! Children have also embarked on Andy Warhol and his work, more human body work exploring information and learning about where parts of the body (inside and out) are. We also began learning about duration in music.
Our Science, literacy, group reading, numeracy problem solving and RE this week have also, without realising, helped us to apply many of our developing reading skills - comprehension, skimming, scanning, reading more closely, note taking, researching...........Wow, you're sooooooooo clever Year 2!

Well done to Eliza and Max who have already brought in their amazing home learning projects! Excellent!

I have also had a couple more people mention to me about coming in to read us a story - so please come and book a date with me - thank you!

With regards to home learning diaries, after a group reading session I am endeavouring to write in their books on that day about their reading and then in the teacher comments box for the previous week, so please flick back for more!

Thanks, Mrs. Johnson

A "buzzing" classroom!

Hi there!

Well, we have continued to work hard as we always do in Year 2! Our literacy this week has been writing recounts both about our trip to the farm and tomorrow, about our Easter holidays - We learned how to write paragraphs (I used the image of a camera.......new picture = new paragraph!!!!) We also learned how to use sequential sentence openers to help tell the order of our visit (tricky stuff!!!!!)


In numeracy we have been learning about multiplication and and it's relationship with repeated addition. Along side this we have also been problem solving too.

Group reading has been "buzzing" with lots of activities taking place...........getting lost in a book of your choice in quiet reading, reading comprehension, reading journal activities, gardening and word work using the ipads!!!!!!

During science we launched our new topic - The Human Body, which sparked lots of interest and excitement...........be prepared for lots of questions - home learning to follow in the book bags! (I will post it on the blog tomorrow as well.) Mrs. Webb also launched the DT topic which links to our science - healthy eating......."dips and dippers" - Yummy!

Thank you to all of you who have brought in books for our reading corner and also to those of you who have donated cushions, material, paper etc - we really appreciate it!

I have also had two more kind and brave parents offer to come in and read to the children so we are very excited!!!!!! Please come forward if you would like to have a go!

Thank you also to our parent volunteers who have come back to give more of their time to listen to the children read - lots of positive comments about how the children are really improving!

See you tomorrow - Mrs. Johnson and the Year 2 Team!

Orchestra

Orchestra will begin again THIS Thursday 18th April. Clubs begin next week. All players need to attend please, should have their instrument and two pieces of music. Bring a drink and snack and then we'll begin playing! Any extra hands would be gladly appreciated!

Mrs Mewett

Great first day back!

Thank you to Mrs. Hoskins for a superb morning! We learned all about the similarities and differences between modern farming and Victorian farming, as well as all about how the farm works, the animals and all the new arrivals - we were lucky enough to see a calf that was less than 24 hours old!!!!!!

Well done to all of you who clearly worked very hard on your reading journals - they look amazing and we were all keen to start work in them today! The reading area was a huge success and it was lovely to see the children snuggled up, shoes off and stuck in a book!!!!!

We are also pleased to welcome Miss Kensington to the Year 2 Team while Mrs. Creed is getting better!

Keep up your home learning and recording any extra learning you do in your home learning diaries!

Mrs. Johnson

Bring on the summer sun!!!!!

Hello!!!! I hope you all had a wonderful, restful holiday - it felt like a very long break for some reason!!!!!!

Just a couple of reminders - tomorrow we are off to the farm so please can all the children come in warm weather/water proof home clothes and bring wellies in a named carrier! (I am very excited!!!) Also if there are any mums, dads, nannys, grandads or carers who would like to join us then please let me know in the morning and come along! It would be lovely to see you there!

Mrs. Webb and I have created our new reading area which looks very inviting - another request for books (as it looks a little bare!) We will be thinking about fundraising for a reading den wig wam and, if we raise over the amount we need for that, we can buy some books too - I will be scouring charity shops and car-boot sales!!!!

Again, if any of you would like to come in and read a story of your choice to the class from 3:10 on a Thursday we would love to have you - the children adored listening to Mrs. Stevens and were mesmerized - totally lost in the story - superb!

The next couple of weeks will see us learning multiplication and division and applying it in problem solving, we will be entering the wonderful and magical world of Roald Dahl in literacy, we will also be learning all sorts of exciting things about the human body, the jurassic coast and much more.........watch this space!

See you tomorrow! :-)

Mrs. Johnson

Happy Easter

Here's to a very relaxing and restful start to the Easter holidays - I hope you all had a fantastic week- end?

Just a note to say that home learning was put in the book bags - covering our new reading journal and completing the first activity inside.
Also on the first day back, 15th April, we will be visiting Maiden Castle Farm so please make sure the children are clothed according to the weather for that day and bring wellies in in a carrier bag! Thanks!

Thank you once again to Mrs. Stevens for reading to the class - they all thoroughly enjoyed it and would like more!!!!!!!!

Enjoy your break together and I look forward to seeing you all in a couple of weeks......

Mrs. Johnson