Class 2

On Wednesday 11th December it is the Class 1 and 2 Christmas show! The shows start at 9:15am and 5:30pm. Please can the children arrive in their costumes on Wednesday morning and Wednesday evening (We will send costumes home on Monday 9th December after our dress rehearsal in school. Thank you for…

Christmas play reminders:

Please remember to practise your lines for the Christmas play. 

Please bring costumes in for Monday 2nd December

Class 2 organised their own hand sizeinvestigations in science this week. We talked about hand spans and came up with questions:

'If you're taller will you have bigger hands?' Finley

'If you're shorter will you have bigger hands?' Rhodie

'if you have bigger hands, can you pick up more…

Class 2 talked about the Christma story and how Christians get ready for Christmas. We identified 3 traditions that Christians do to get ready: advent calendars, advent wreaths and nativity scenes.

In RE we talked about what Christians are thankful for at Christmas and what we're thankful for at Christmas. We then wrote thankfulness paper chains. 

'I am thankful for my nanny because she cooks with me' Nell

'I am thankful for my brothers because they make me laugh' Roxie

'Christians…

Class 2 inspired by Camille Saint Saens' Carnival of the Animals, compose their own animal music!

As it's getting towards winter, please could you send your child in with jumpers, hats, scarves and gloves for forest school.

Today, Year 2 were learning about arrays in maths. We made arrays and worked out what multiplication sums we could write for them. 

We are Critical Thinkers and Problem Solvers 

In French class two have had fun practising colour adjectives and parts of their face and describing what they look like. They made pillar people and used a writing frame to describe themselves in French.

In Science we've been learning about our bodies. Today we explored our senses by tasting foods and identify the type of taste, rating smells, sorting materials depending on how they feel, guessing the sounds and drawing our favourite places.

For the next 2 weeks, Class 2's English work will surround The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield. Class 2 are looking forward to finding out what happens next and writing some lovely descriptions about this book.

Today we made groups practically using counters, cubes, teddy bears and shells. This is the beginning of our multiplication unit. Next we will add groups and then year 2 will look at the multiplication symbol.