Year Two - Pantomime Costumes

 

Thank you to those Year Twos who have already brought in a pantomime costume (in a named bag). Please keep them coming! We are hoping to give the children some "lines" this week, with a view to doing some filming with Mr. Spracklen next Tuesday.

Many thanks,

Mr. M and Mrs. B

Year Two - Home Learning Ancient Greek Myths Research

Year TWO Home Learning Ancient Greek Fact Finding Mission - Research Have a go at finding the answers to some of these questions. See how many you can do. It doesn’t have to be all of them: Find three facts about Athena? Who was Poseidon? What is the Parthenon? Find the names of some ancient Greek Heroes. Who was Aesop? Find out three facts about “Alexander the Great”. Who lived on Mount Olympus? What was an Oracle? What sports did the ancient Greeks play?

Year Two - Christmas Show Information + Costume Request

Dear Year Two Parents, This year’s Christmas Performance is going to have to be done a little differently. Rest assured that we still have exciting plans! Without wanting to give too much away, here is how we would like you to help us if you possibly can please: We would like each of the children in Year Two to take the part of a pantomime character. They can have some choice with this; perhaps dependent on what costume you are able to provide from home. It will be better for the performance if we have a nice variety. Here are some examples. (You may think of others.) Ugly Sister, Cinderella, Evil Queen, Widow Twanky/ Pantomime Dame, Prince Charming, Fairy Godmother, Buttons, Aladdin, Genie, Back-end-of-the Cow, Robin Hood, Maid Marion, Sheriff of Nottingham, one of the seven Dwarfs, Rapunzel, Puss-in-Boots, Dick Wittington, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Tigerlily, Wendy Darling, the Giant, Jack, mermaid, merman, pirate, “lost boys” etc It doesn’t matter if we have more than one of the same character. Actually a troupe of Pantomime Dames/Ugly Sisters would be funny! Do let us know if you are struggling to find a costume and we can help sort something out. After you’ve had a chat at home about what character you’d like to go for, please could your child’s costume come to school as soon as possible (in a named bag), but before 7th December so that we can start filming with Mr. Spracklen. Many thanks, Duncan MacBean

Home Learning Year 2DM - Measurement

 Measurements     Home Learning Year 2DM 

Friday 20th November             

You will need a tape measure, measuring scales and a capacity jar.

1	How tall are you in m and cm?
2	How many millilitres are there in your bottle of shampoo? (ml)
3	How much does your box of cereal weigh?(g)  (Look on the pack.)
4	How tall is the tallest person that lives in your house? Measure in m/cm
5	How high up do you sleep when you’re in bed?  – measure in m/cm
6	Find the biggest potato (or apple, or banana) in the bag.  How much does it weigh?   (g)
7	Measure the distance from your seat in the lounge to the television.                                      (m/cm)
8	How much does your breakfast cup/glass contain? (ml) Estimate or measure.
9	How many millilitres are there in your bottle of ketchup? / or tin of soup? Have a look at the label on the bottle.
10	If a cereal/soup bowl was full, how many ml of liquid could it hold?

Year Two - Mathletics Numeracy Challenge

 

Just a reminder that  the school is currently involved in a "Mathletics Numeracy Challenge". We are hoping to get especially high levels of participation this week. 

Year Two - Ancient Greek Myths

 English Lessons

In our English lessons this half-term we are looking at some of the ancient Greek myths.

We have met Daedalus and Icarus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and next week, we will be finding out about the tragic story of Orpheus and Euridice.

We are using these exciting stories to provide an interesting context for developing Reading and Writing skills. 

Later this half-term, we will be having a go at writing our own stories in the style of a myth!

Art Work

Alongside our work in English, we will be looking at pictures of ancient Greek pottery (decorated with scenes of their stories and their daily lives).

We will be making own "replicas" using plastic bottles covered in "papier mache".

I would be very grateful if you could provide a plastic bottle (or two) so that we can transform them into works of art. (plain, cylindrical 2-litre plastic bottles would best suit our purposes.)

Year Two - Power Maths - MONEY

 

The children in Year Two are moving on to a new unit of work in their Power Maths  this week.

Unit 4 - Money

In this unit of work we will:

• Count coins and notes

• Compare different amounts of money

• Find different ways to make the same amount

• Work out the amount of change

• Solve two-step problems using money

Year 2 - Home learning Friday 13th November

   Suffixes  

To use suffixes to generate new words from root words.

These suffixes may help you :- 

-ing, -ship, -er, -ful, -est, -ness, -ly, -ment, -ish, -hood, -dom, -less, -like

Here are some words you know. They are called 'root' words.  Can you make some other words that start with them by adding suffixes ?   (How about 15 new words?)

start         child  

glad           nice 

cold           joy

enjoy         ask 

hope          friend

beauty       free

run            happy

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2. Mathematical investigation  -Make the Magic Potion:

Insects 6 legs

Lizards 4 legs

Bats 2 legs

Potion must have a total of 12 legs.

Can you make 5 different “12-leg-potions” ?

example   potion one  - 3 Lizards    4 + 4 + 4 = 12 legs

Year Two - Daedalus and Icarus

 

In Year Two this week we are looking at the ancient Greek myth "Daedalus and Icarus".

Year Two - Class Assembly

 

We have given the children a copy of their "Lines" for our Year 2 Class Assembly. It would be great if they could have a go at practising these at home over the next week.

On Friday (13th), Mr Spracklen is going to record the children reading their lines so that we can put together a documentary-style presentation to share with you some of the work we have been doing since we started Year 2. 

This presentation will be available to be viewed online as our Year Two Class Assembly the following week (hopefully on the Friday 20th November as previously advertised).

DM

Year Two - Home Learning - Monster Poem and Assembly Lines

 

Year 2 Home Learning   -  Poetry           Friday 6th November

Can you make up a poem about a monster where you describe the monster using things that you don’t like?

This is the monster

I made up last week.

A monster so scary

I’m now losing sleep!

It has…

Make a list of things that you don’t like.  Then put these into the poem about a monster.

barbed-wire , stinging nettles , car alarm noise,  cold porridge, wasp-stings, bullies,  burning the toast, getting a library fine,  getting a puncture on my bike, having an argument, dusting the house, having toothache

Here’s an example:

It has barbed-wired feet

And stinging nettle arms

When singing it sounds

Like the noise of car alarms

It has  cold porridge for eyes

And a wasp sting nose 

It has bullies for fingers

And burnt toast for toes

It has library fines for teeth

And flat tyres for eyes

It sounds like an argument

Whenever it cries.

My poem uses rhyme, but yours does not have to.