People and Pop Art
Year 2 have enjoyed 2 afternoons of art work as we start our new art topic during remote learning. We have had a go at drawing people and watched some videos to help us add more detail to our work. We have also learnt about the pop artist, Keith Haring, and worked in his style. Impressive work…
TT Rockstars on our Chromebooks and iPads
We loved learning how to use our new chromebooks and log in with our 'magic badges. We all played on TT Rockstars to work on our times tables. It was great fun to be able to have a battle against each in the arena. We had to answer quickly to finish high up on the leaderboard. We can't wait to do…
Christmas lunch, party and more.....
Year 2 loved coming into school in their Christmas jumpers and really enjoyed their Christmas lunch and party in class.
On our last day we got to dress up as elves again and could finally hand out our Christmas cards.
How did we get into the snow globe?
So much Christmas fun in Year 2
Year 2 have had a great week with lots of Christmas fun and activities.
Year 2 were busy little elves as they worked on their Christmas cards and made sock snowmen! They were so proud of how they turned out!
They have enjoyed lots of Christmas activities in class. Santa's elves game was…
Elf Day in Year 2
What a magical day in Year 2!
We have enjoyed different elf activities in class and loved learning how to draw an elf and our elf workout.
A highlight of our day was finding a real reindeer on the playground, although Mr Fyne did not believe us at first!! We got to meet Lightning and…
The Great Fire of London
Year 2 were so engrossed in their first lesson about the Great Fire of London. After we had a pretend fire drill, we found something in class. It was some burnt bread, cheese and wine! We started to learn about how the fire started and what happened.
Year 2 are hard at work in handwriting
Year 2 are working so hard on improving their handwriting. They are learning to take care to form letters correctly, get them the correct size and begin to join letters in their writing. The challenge is to remember to always write as nicely as they do in handwriting!
London! London!
Year 2 have enjoyed starting to learn about London. We had to find clues to work out which place we were learning about. We then learnt about where London is and facts about London. We played a True False game and even found London on Google Earth and spotted some landmarks.
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More Art work in Year 2 - Printing and learning about the artist Lucy Jones
It has been a busy week in Year 2 with 2 more art lessons linked to our work in buildings. We learnt how to make a print of our drawings by making a foam print. We loved seeing our drawings as a print.
We then looked at the work of Lucy Jones who is an artist and printmaker. We enjoyed…
We love Reading
We are really enjoying our different reading activities in Year 2 during Guided Reading. Groups enjoy reading and even had a go at following instructions from their Guided Reading books. We also enjoy reading comprehension and working out which words are real and nonsense.
Experimenting with tone and drawing buildings
Year 2 started their new art topic today by experimenting with how to draw narrow and broad lines and use tone, using drawing pencils and charcoal. They then looked at buildings in Skemersdale and London and had a go at drawing them.
Making maps in Geography
Year 2 children spend the afternoon revisiting their walk from yesterday. We talked about the different human and physical features that we spotted on the way. We looked at our route again on a map and then had a go at making our own maps of the route. Finally we found Delph Side on Google Earth…
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