Early Bird

PSHE

We thought about what makes a good friend. We wrote and drew some things that make us a good friend on a break time, a lunch time and in class. We had some great ideas… from playing animal games to helping our friends when they fall over.

Maths

We were counting in 3s today in maths. We reminded ourselves of countng in twos (the idea of ‘lots of’). We are starting to get the hang of it now!

English

Today, we started to publish our writing using the text we sent to Miss Jenkins recommending our class book, ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’.

Outside Learning

We practised asking questions, linking to our collect phase in English to work in teams to find the hidden toy!

Early Bird Maths

Maths

We looked at counting in 2s. We had a very practical lesson. We learnt the idea that 0 x 2 means 0 lots of 2, 1 x 2 means 1 lot of 2 and so on. We got out the base ten ones and proved different calculations.

P.E.

Warm up: Different sharp, short movements around the space. E.g. running, jogging, jumping, hopping, galloping.

Musical cones: Children run around the area. Cones are randomly placed. When the adult shouts ‘stop’, children run to a cone (one person per cone). There may not be enough cones for everyone! Challenge: Run to a specific coloured cone.

Dribbling: In pairs, children dribble around the space. Challenge: Dribble the ball through ‘gates’ made from cones.

Practise passing the ball. Challenge: In your pair, pass the ball through the ‘gates’ (cones).

Competition/Game: How many gates (cones) can you and your partner pass the ball through in four minutes?

PSHE

WCR

Early Bird Maths

Maths

English

In English, we re-read ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. We thought about what we liked about the ending of the story. We then thought of alternative endings we may have preferred. On Monday, we will record our ideas.

Phonics

Reading for Pleasure

Choose a book, chill and enjoy!

Big Idea (Science) – We predicted what would happen when we put a clean slice of bread in a plastic bag and an unclean slice of bread in a plastic bag and left it there. We compared this to washing our hands to keep us safe as opposed to not washing our hands. We wonder what will happen over time!

Early Bird Maths

Maths

Forest Schools

In Forest schools, we looked for various things outside. We linked this to our work for Big Idea in the afternoon. What could we find that was alive, dead or had never been alive?

Big Idea

For out Big Idea (Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, Healthy Me), we talked about how living things stay healthy (and what they need to live). We played a game with pictures and hoops and put the correct image in the correct hoop; identifying whether it was alive, dead or had never been alive.

We then completed some work for our ‘Big Idea’ book in our neatest handwriting. We labelled the differences between a cat (alive) and a metal chair (never been alive).

English

Maths

Early Bird Maths

Maths

P.E.

P.E. today was fill of fun football tips and skills. In pairs, we dribbled the ball through doors made of cones and then progressed as far as to pass the balls through the cone doors to our partners. At the end, we had a competition to see which pair could pass the most balls through the doors. It was great fun!

Big Idea

We finished our lighthouse collages. THEY LOOK AMAZING! Here is one of our pieces… isn’t it fabulous?!

Phonics

In Phonics today we revised the /ey/ grapheme. We read it lots of times in different words and used our robot arms and blending hands to help us.

We read funny sentences together that contained the /ey/ sound.

We then practised writing the sound by looking at the pictures (2nd slide).

Extension: Can you write the sentences on the third slide by filling in the picture gaps?

Maths

English

Children thought about their favourite character(s) in ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. They thought about how they could describe them and why they liked them. What fantastic sentences we came up with!

P.E.

Early Bird

Maths

English

Miss Jenkins is looking for a book to read to the Year Ones! Let’s recommend ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. Why would you recommend it? Please write why and let me know… I will text her with my favourite reason!

Phonics

Whole Class Reading

Read a book of your choice. Can you talk about your favourite part of the book with someone at home?

Big Idea: (Art focus) Use the step-by-step guide to draw a pesky seagull! https://easydrawingguides.com/how-to-draw-a-seagull/

Early Bird

Maths

English

Phonics

Whole Class Reading: Watch ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ on YouTube. Discuss your favourite part and why with someone at home. List 6 words that you really like from the book. What do they mean?

Big Idea: Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMHVEFWNLMc – Discuss with someone at home whether you think that you have a healthy diet and why. Write down the kind of foods you have for each meal and draw them.

Welcome to our class blog for 2020-21!

On here, I will be posting work for any children not in class, as well as fun activities and special achievements in Year 2.