Blog by Tag: Penguins

In our ICT lessons, year 2 have been looking at the artwork of Piet Mondrian and trying to recreate his artwork using the laptops and tablets.  You can see from some of the children’s work that this is an artist who used lots of lines and bold colours in his paintings.

We had the best time visiting the Monkey Forest at Trentham Gardens! We learned about where the monkeys live, their diet and behaviour. We had such a good time looking at the monkeys in their habitat and saw lots of baby monkeys too! 

Year Two were busy sorting materials according to their different properties in Science this week.  They worked in small groups and had to find objects within the classroom and match theme to the property displayed on the label.  We soon realised that some objects fitted into 2 or more…

We enjoyed using the opinion starters to argue why deforestation is a bad idea. We were very impressed with how many facts we remembered from last week! 

Thank you so much for you kind donations of delicious food. The children were SO excited to try and it was a big thumbs up from us! 

Year 2 were researchers in their English lesson today.  They used iPads to find information about deforestation, in preparation for writing their persuasive letter to the giants.  They recorded their findings on post-its before having a class discussion about their research.  

We started a new genre today, a persuasive letter. We looked at examples and found the features, discussing what they mean. We did a great job! 

We spent our Computing lesson using a painting programme to create our own Impressionist Style artwork. Look at this wonderful example: Night Sky by Izzy 

Today we set our Funky Fingers the challenge of making a dough person, they did a fantastic job, what do you think?

We had an amazing sports day with lots of us getting stickers! Despite it being very hot we had a lovely time and enjoyed being in the sunshine. 

We absolutely loved role playing our new story Greta and the Giants. We completed freeze frames from different parts in the story to make sure we knew the sequence before writing a retell. 

We had a great time looking for objects made from Materials we already knew to start our topic of Everyday Materials. We discovered there was LOTS of metal and plastic outside and more paper, cardboard and glass outside. Next week, we’ll look into their properties to discover why.