Blog by Tag: Year 2
Squarky turns 1!
On 5th October, our class heron Squarky turned 1. We celebrated by giving him a birthday party. We decorated the classroom with banners and balloons. We gave him a birthday card. Then we played musical bumps and statues. Max B and Sophia won. We sang "Happy Birthday" and ate birthday cake.
We…
Category: Herons
Year 2 writing herons year 1 English recount
Traditional Tales
We have really enjoyed learning about traditional tales in English over the past 3 weeks. We have read the Wolf and The Seven Kids and The Cat, The Dog, Little red, Exploding Eggs, The Wolf and Grandma's Wardrobe. We have also had the opportunity to share your favourite stories from home including…
Category: Herons
Year 2 writing herons reading year 1 English traditional tales
Blackpool Display
Our whole school focus has been on location. In KS1 we have been looking at our local location of Blackpool. In Herons we studied and found out about Blackpool. We then found out a lot of facts about the piers in Blackpool. As a class we made a pier. In the hall KS1 created a Blackpool display.…
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Year 2 art ks1 herons year 1 DT Blackpool
Telling the time.
Herons are learning to tell the time. Today we learned and practised what each hand is for and where it goes to tell the time for; o'clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past.
We played a game of; "What's the Time Mr. Wolf?" with a difference. Each time had a different kind of movement;…
Category: Herons
Year 2 measure maths herons year 1
The Faraway Tree
This week we took the idea of The Faraway Tree as a theme for our writing. We created our own adventure stories using this story as a model and finished off the week by dressing up in character.
Category: Robins
Robins Year 2 Robins 2015 writing
The Door
What an exciting start to our final week of term. After such a hive of activity of different doors being decorated around our school last week, the children have had the opportunity to begin to write about a door of their choosing. The Door poem, by the poet Miroslav Holub, was such an…
Category: Falcons
Robins owls year3 Year 2 doves kestrels year4 Eagles Design and Technology ks1 writing herons hawks year 1
Rocket Building
Today in English we worked in groups to make a rocket out of a cardboard tube and a piece of card. We had to think about the different steps that we took to create the rocket as tomorrow we will be writing instructions on how we built them.
Perhaps you could comment below with some good time…
Category: Robins
"Giant's Footsteps"
Our Fundametal skills session this week with Sean was to play the game; "Giant's Footsteps".
It's a little bit like "What's the time Mr Wolf". We had to sneak up to the "giant" creeping on our tiptoes and freeze when the giant turned round.
It was hard to balance in our shapes and if we…
Category: Herons
Year 2 Robins 2015 ks1 Ks1 pe herons
Fundamental Skills Fun
Today we have had Fleetwood Football club in school to play some games with the Year Two children. They have been great fun and helped us practise our skills too.
Category: Herons
Fractions
In maths today we did some work on fractions where we used cubes to help us work out halves, quarters, three quarters and an eighth of a number. Mr Boyd was really impressed with our work!
Category: Robins
Dodge skills
Our PE lesson today we practiced our dodging skills. We jumped from one foot to another trying to move away from the beanbag. Everyone worked in pairs; one person was the dodger and one was the thrower.
Category: Herons
Story Sharing
Over the past three weeks we have been learning about the author Anthony Browne and looking at the themes in his stories. We finally finished our own stories based on the idea of the story of the Night Shimmy. We had to be authors and illustrators! When we had finished our books we went and…
Category: Robins