Christmas

2S have been practicing our Christmas play. The Christmas play is about a school and 2 inspectors come to inspect the school. At the end the inspectors give an award to the school for the neatest school. We worked hard because we had to remember our lines. Our teacher told us what to wear. We had fun!

2m have been reading The Smartest Giant In Town. After we read the book we pretended to be the giant and wrote a diary entry, here is one of them :

Dear Diary,

I woke up this morning and got dressed. I had breakfast and went out for walk I looked at my gown, it was very dirty. So I bought new clothes. Then I bumped into a giraffe! The giraffe's neck was so cold so I gave my new tie. I went to a lake then I saw a goat.

The was very wet so I gave him my new shirt. I went to a camp site a fox then he wanted to be warm so I gave him my new socks. Then I saw a mouse, her house was burnt so I gave her a shoe. Finally I saw a dog, he was near a puddle. I then gave him a belt so he could get past the puddle. I had no clothes left I then saw my old clothes so I put them on.

Anti-Bullying Week

This week we have been looking more closely at what bullying is and how we would like people to treat us and how people shouldn't treat us. We learnt that we should treat other people how we would liked to be treated ourselves. We also created Anti-bullying posters thinking carefully about the features of a poster - colourful, attractive, eye-catching etc.

In Numeracy we have been looking at Shapes. We looked at some different 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. We also looked at symmetry and repeating patterns. We all enjoyed dressing up in our pyjamas today for Children in Need.

We have been continuing to practice our play as the day of the performance comes closer! Thank-you to those of you who have already brought in costumes, if you have not yet please do so as soon as possible.

Have a good weekend,

Mr. Merchant and 2M

Writing a diary

Class 2M also looked at numberlines this week. Some of us even started to use a blank numberline to help us with our additions but we are going to be doing lots more work on using these in the future.

In Literacy we continued to look at the story of the snail and the whale, in particular looking at features of diary writing. We wrote two diary entries, one as the snail and one as one of the children who saw the whale on the beach. We learnt that when we are writing a diary entry we need to pretend that we are the character and that we are writing about things that happened in the past.

Next week is a busy week as it is Anti-bullying week and Children in need day on Friday. On Thursday for Anti-bullying week children are invited to wear something blue and on Friday for Children in need, invited to come to school in their pyjamas with a small donation. Please don't forget our bake and take and best dressed teddy bear competition too. In amongst all that we will also be practicing our Christmas play!



Mr. Merchant and 2M

Blank Number Lines

In year 2 we talked about blank number lines. A blank number line is a line without any numbers. We had to place the numbers on the line. We had to do sums without numbers on the blank number line. Everyone had to skip the numbers on the line to find out the answer.

We worked together to check our answer. Everybody had fun and had a good time.

By Adil and Hamsavi

The Snail and the Whale

This week we have been looking at the book The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson. We learnt about what a setting was and what a caption was and created our own settings and captions for the story. We also wrote the story in our own words remembering what features we needed to use. In Numeracy we have been learning about doubles, near doubles and number facts. We thought about which method we needed to work out which sum. We have also been working on how to solve word problems.

This week we started practising our Christmas play and are all excited about our parts. Children who have speaking parts have taken a script home to learn their words. Please could this script be kept in their bookbags as we will be using them most days. You should also have received a letter with costume details. Homework for Numeracy and Literacy has also been sent home this week and is due Wednesday.

I am out on a course on Monday so 2M will be covered by Mrs Quinn.

Have a good weekend, enjoy learning your lines!

Mr. Merchant and 2M