Egg rolling 2C
See our photographs from our egg rolling competition today. Thank you everybody for getting involved!
Well done Ella for rolling your Incredible Hulk egg the furthest, enjoy your prizes!
Have a wonderful Easter break everybody!
Egg-cellent Easter disco
We had an egg-citing time at the Easter disco on Friday. We played an Easter-themed corners game, musical statues and finished off with the obligatory conga and sweets.
Living and Learning – I can talk about how I am feeling
Our Living Learning statement this week is ‘I can talk about how I am feeling.’
During this session, KS1 identified and discussed different emotions. We discussed vocabulary linking to these emotions and how to recognise such feelings in ourselves and in others.
The children recognised that everybody experiences a range of different feelings and this is completely normal and okay. We can experience and recognise these through thoughts, facial expression and body language.
We talked about how we can deal with our emotions and manage them effectively.
In class, children watched a pixar animation where they were asked to spot different emotions and explain why they thought each character was feeling a certain way.
Help at home: by discussing feelings often with your children and find techniques that help children to understand and regulate these emotions.
Road safety
This afternoon, the Year 2’s had a very important visitor in school. The visitor was from Leeds City council and spoke to the children about road safety.
First, the children spoke about different parts of a typical road: a road, kerb and pavement. The children then spoke about what type of traffic they might see on the road and path, and added images to a map.
They were given scenarios both within a car and whilst walking or riding on the pavement, and discussed how to stay safe.
We know that we must wear a seatbelt whenever we are in a moving vehicle. We must never distract our driver to ensure the journey is safe.
We also know when we are crossing the road, we have to follow the rules: stop, look and listen.
Help at home: by talking to your child about road safety at home.
Living and learning : solving problems
We have been discussing ways to solve problems. It is important we learn how to work and play with other people. Problems will always arise in life and we have been talking how we can approach and solve problems.
Help at home by talking through problems and possible solutions.
Computing
Our Topic this half term is computing. We are learning about what a computer is and the functions and abilities that computers have.
Each Topic, we learn different vocabulary.
In class, we are using Beebots. These are robots that have the appearance of a bee. They can move around when programmed with an algorithm. The children have experimented over the past few weeks, using the Beebots. They know how to get them to move in the way that they want (after lots of trial and error).
First we must press ‘CLEAR’ to ensure that the Beebot does not follow any prior instructions.
Then we command an algorithm into the Beebot and press ‘GO’.
We have also been designing our own games. We have practised working out the correct algorithms needed to complete our games. We’ve also set our peers challenges whereby they need to ‘debug’ an algorithm to complete our games. So far, we have planned and designed our games in our books.
We can’t wait for next week, where we can see our games come to life, using the Beebots!
Living and Learning
This week’s whole school Living and Learning statement is, ‘I know that friends and family are important.’
Our in-class learning objective however, has been ‘I know when my friends are happy.’
This week, KS1 have been discussing how important it is to have relationships with people we can trust, whether that is friends or family. This is not only for our own happiness, but if something goes wrong it means we always have someone we can talk to. Somebody we can trust.
It is therefore important that we know when we are feeling happy and in turn, when others are feeling happy. This can give us the social skills we need to help ourselves and others.
‘There has never been a stronger focus on the health and wellbeing of our young children as there is today and we have an important and valuable part to play in this.’
In class, we watched a clip about Elmer the elephant, a story by David McKee. In the story, Elmer became sad as other Elephants did not understand her.
We used the words from the story and looked at Elmers’ body language, to recognise why she was feeling sad.
We then discussed how the other Elephants could help Elmer and make her happy again. Then we spoke about how this can link to our own lives and situations in school.
Finally, the children designed their own Elmer the Elephant, using ‘happy’ and vibrant colours.
World Book Day in KS1
We had a fabulous World Book Day today.
The children looked fantastic as their book characters and we shared stories and talked about why we loved certain characters. Thank you for all the costumes!
Staff all dressed as a crayon from The Day The Crayons Quit.
We also watched a fantastic theatre performance of The Secret Garden by M&M Productions. We were mesmerised.
We just loved celebrating how much we love reading, poems and books!
Maths – divide
This week, Year 2 have been learning how to divide.
‘Divide means to share into equally groups.’
We are focussing on dividing by 2, 5 and 10. We know that divide is in the same fact family as multiply. This means that there is a link between the numbers we use in each equation.
Today, 2C focussed on dividing by 5.
10 divided by 2 = 5
10 divided by 5 = 2
2 x 5 = 10
5 x 2 = 10
See some of our fantastic work below!
PE in 1,2B – yoga
We have been learning some yoga poses in PE lessons. Focusing on breathing, balance, movement and coordination are all essential in yoga. Working with a partner was also rather fun!
Help at home by doing some yoga together. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)
