Rehearsing mental maths

Today we have been rehearsing our mental maths strategies. We played a range of games to support our learning. Here are some pictures of what we've been doing today!

You can play these at home too!

We played mental maths twister! We were given questions such as 'Put your foot on a 2 digit number' 'Put your hand on a number in the 3 times table'

We played dominoes. We quickly had to identify unusual representations of numbers!

We created our own 100 number square. Some of the numbers were missing so we had to create our own cards. 

Optional Year 1 homework

Please see an optional Year 1 piece of homework.  Children in Year 2 will be expected to complete this homework over two weeks. 

This homework is optional for Year 1. 

Focus: Science / Design and Technology WALT:  Create a habitat for an animal. Task: Choose an animal you would like to research and using a shoebox /cereal box/ other cardboard create its habitat. You can use paint, tissue paper, natural resources and junk modelling to create your habitat. You may choose a whale or dolphin and create an ocean habitat or you may choose a monkey and create a jungle animal, the choice is yours. WILF: *A habitat for your chosen animal. *Your shoebox must be decorated with colour. *Remember to research what your animal’s habitat is to help you create your project.

Our Class Assembly

At the end of term we held our class assembly for our parents and carers to share our learning with them. The children worked very hard to produce some wonderful pieces of written work, art work and topic work to celebrate what they have been learning about at school. 

All of the children were fantastic at remembering their individual parts. Well done for such a brilliant assembly!

The Tiger who came to tea!

This week we are looking at the story 'The Tiger who Came to Tea.' By the end of the week we will be writing our own story based on a jungle animal. It could be 'The Elephant who Came to Tea'.

Today we read the story and worked in groups of 3 to create a freeze frame of the story. The characters we acted out were the Tiger, Sophie and Sophie's Mummy.

Can you guess who is who in our pictures?

World Book Day

We had a wonderful time on World Book Day sharing stories with other children throughout the school, dressing up as our favourite characters and swapping a book with each other. What a brilliant day!

 

 

African Drumming!

On Friday, as part of our Geography topic on Ghana, we had a djembe drumming lesson with Miss Groves. We learnt different beats and then put all of the different beats together to create a fantastic piece of music!

The Enormous Crocodile

In maths we listened to the story of The Enormous Crocodile.

Year 2 had a problem to solve.

Did you know that Dwarf Crocodiles can grow up to 2 metres long? How else can we measure this length? We used non-standard units of measure to solve this problem (pom poms, spaghetti, pasta and cubes) We had to measure 2m usingour chosen unit.

The tricky bit was, Miss Groves only gave us 1 metre to measure with! That meant that we had to double our answer to find out how long 2m would be in our chosen unit.