Year 2

In our music lesson this week we have been exploring body percussion and learning how to compose body percussion rhythmic phrases. We used symbols to represent the sounds we used. We performed each of our rhythms together.

In our history lesson this week we were reflecting on all that we have learnt about holidays in the past. In our activity we sorted statements about holidays and decided if they were true for 100 years ago, the present day or both.

In our science lesson this week we started a new topic about Using Everyday Materials. In our first lesson we reflected on what we already thought we knew about materials and then we identified which materials are used to make different objects.

This week we have been finding out how our knowledge of known facts can help us to solve related facts. We have also been practising and learning number facts using ‘Hit the Button’. We have been aiming to improve our scores each day!

This week we have been exploring the rhyming poems of Julia Donaldson at both home and school using the poems from her collection ‘Wriggle and Roar’.

We have studied the rhyming patterns and structures of the poems and we have had a go at continuing the poems with extra verses of our own. We wonder what Julia Donaldson would think of our poems!

Year 2 have enjoyed trying to solve this triangle investigation. They used the knowledge they had gained from working with adding together three single digit numbers.

Year 2 Fabulous Art

Y ear 2 have enjoyed creating Art in the style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

In this week’s Bee Active lesson we were developing our throwing and catching skills. We learnt how to throw overarm and we continued to develop our aiming and striking skills.

This week in our maths lessons we began the week by comparing numbers using the less than and greater than signs (< and > ). We used this knowledge to help us to solve problems.

This week we practised our aiming skills. We had to try and strike and knock over cones with a bean bag. We then had bats and shuttlecocks which we had to use to try and get a shuttlecock inside a hoop on the ground.