Multi-cultural week

We've had another great week with Multi-cultural week. Year 2 were the continent of Asia. We enjoyed learning lots about Asia. Mrs Robinson told us about her trip to the continent and even brought in a puppet from her travels for us to see. We looked at where Asia was on the map and some of the countries which make it up. Today in P.E we enjoyed playing some different playground games which children play in India. Some of us even decided to try them at playtime for ourselves. We enjoyed dressing up in our traditional dress for the carnival today and showing everyone the banner that we made.

We also started practising the songs for our Christmas play and looking at the script. More news on this after half term!

We promised to practice our times tables over the half term to get even better at them!

I hope you have a great half term and see you back feeling refreshed on Monday 2nd November.

Mr. Merchant and 2M

Science Week

We had great fun this week, exploring everything 'Sciencey!'

On Monday morning Mr. Merchant told us about the Athletics competition which him and Mr Nicholson were entering. We had to think about who would do better at the high jump. Some of us thought that Mr Nicholson would do better because he was taller. This led us to think about our first experiment of the week - Do taller people jump higher? Please take a look at the powerpoint below to find out the result!



Our second experiment of the week was also about height but this time we had to think about whether taller people had bigger feet. After making some predictions, thinking about how we could find out and recording our results we discovered that taller people do not always have bigger feet!

We are all looking forward to Multi-cultural week next week. Year 2 will be learning all about the continent of Asia. A reminder about the Multi-cultural food evening on Thursday and our whole school carnival on Friday. Hope to see you all there. Another exciting week for us all!

Have a good weekend,

Mr. Merchant and 2M

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Six Dinner Sid

This week we have been reading the book Six Dinner Sid. The book is about a cat called Sid who has dinner at six different houses. We wrote our own stories based on Six Dinner Sid with many interesting titles including Seven Dinner Samah and Five Dinner Fred. We learnt about what a 'blurb' was and wrote our own blurbs for our stories.

In numeracy we have been learning about 'partitioning' numbers and thinking about how we can use partitioning to add two-digit numbers together.

In Art we looked at some Tudor houses which were around at the time of the Great Fire of London and drew them. Our work was so good that we went to show it to Mrs Leverton and she was really impressed.

We are all looking forward to Science week next week - we are going to be thinking about these two questions;

1) Can taller people jump higher?
2) Does your height effect your shoe size?

We will let you know what we have found out next week!

The sound homework for this week is 'ee' as in meet. Remember to keep working on your Great Fire of London projects. Well done to people who have already brought them in. They are looking great!

Mr. Merchant and 2M

Salt dough and Space!

This week we used our designs from last week to make bread from salt-dough. We had some excellent designs - well done! We also carried on working on the story of Beegu and wrote our own space stories - some really good ideas - what great imaginations you all have! In Numeracy we have been learning about measuring in particular capacity and mass. In Science, we have been continuing our work on Electricity. On Friday we had to guess the weight of some objects and put them in the right order. Please take a look at the photos above to see the fun we had this week. This week's spelling sound is 'ai' as in 'rain.'