Year 2
Reordering
Year 2 have been learning how to add more than two numbers by reordering.
Anti-Bullying Week
As part of anti-bullying week year 2 have been designing their own posters, following this year’s theme: Change starts with us.
Year 2 have been looking at the work of Kandinsky in art and learning about the artist.
Kandinsky was born in Russia. He grew up in the city of Odessa.
He played the Cello and Piano.
He was a teacher and became an artist at the age of 30.
He didn’t paint real things, this kind of painting is called abstract expressionism.
Kandinsky used colours and shapes to express his feelings. His favourite shapes were triangles, squares and circles.
The class have interrupted Kandinsky concentric circles
Maths
Year 2 have been working hard this week looking at tens and ones. They have used different manipulatives to help them such as Numicom, bead strings and Dienes..
The Great Fire of London
This week we explored the use of colour, using pastels and different shading techniques to create a fiery backdrop to the streets of London.
List Poem
Year 2 are learning how to write a list poem using an adjective and object.
Below is the poem we have written as a class.
What is Autumn?
Autumn is
Spiky pine cones
Hibernating hedgehogs
Sticky toffee apples
Bare trees
Crunchy leaves
Round conkers
Warm hats
Hard acorns
Cute fluffy squirrels.
Welcome to year 2.
Only a few days in and already we have achieved so much.
We have looked at what we can already do and written some sentences about this. In keeping with growth mind set we then talked about what we can’t do YET, and wrote about what we would like to be able to do.
In computing we have used a paint package to draw pictures ourselves and practised our mouse control.
In maths we tackled thisproblem: