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Sign language

We used no words this morning, turning instead to our hands for communication. As part of Community Week, we’ve thought about how communities are diverse in terms of different genders, race, age, religion and disabilities. Year 2 really tried to empathise with those who might be deaf or dumb, imagining the difficulties they might face and how these might be overcome. To help us understand, we tried out British Sign Language and, actually, we were pretty good!

Here are some of the things we learnt…

and we learnt some letters too..

Test us at home and see what can remember.

Similarites and differences

After looking at our own identity and subsequently how we are all different, Year 1 spent time with a friend in the class finding out about each other.  This involved a lot of discussion to find out their similarities and differences that weren’t immediately visible.

Communicating without speaking

Visitors from Dales (Deaf Across Leeds Enablement Service) taught us a range of different sign language today to raise awareness of people who have a hearing impairment.  From general greetings to the alphabet and numbers, signing proved to be a new skill all the children enjoyed learning.

Kidzaware

Kidzaware, a local charity who provide educational programmes about disabilities, visited today as part of our learning about diversity.  We met puppets, learnt a song, used signing and generally became more aware of a range of disabilities and appropriate ways to interact.

Identity

This morning, Miss Farrell has been helping us learn about who we are and what different things make up our identity.

Our Rube Goldberg machine

httpv://www.youtu.be/aVTrmOp9_tA

Robot Rumpus

You might have noticed a new addition to your families as a robot may have come home from Year 1.  There were some very imaginative and creative robots designed and made in Year 1 this week to finish off our mini topic.  Here are a few of them:

15 May 2015

The homework this week is Creative and is due Wednesday 20 May:

Who do you think you are?

Next week, we embark on five days of learning about identity, diversity and community. Your child is required to think about themselves and what makes them who they are.

Creative homework is a great way for your child to engage with their homework any way they choose. I’ll be looking for homework with some creative flair as well as some refinement and finesse. Ideas could range from:

• a family tree
• a personal timeline
• a comic strip depicting their life journey

I’m looking forward to finding out what makes each child who they are and the themed week is sure to be a successful one!

15 May 2015

This is the third spelling week about verbs. This time, all the verbs end in a y. For the present and past tense forms, you need to drop the y for an I and then add es  for present tense or ed for past tense.

As before, the verbs are listed in their infinitive, present tense, past tense and continuous (this form could be either past or present tense).

Infinitive – I cry.

Present – She cries

Past – I cried

Continuous – I was crying.  I am crying.

Group 1 

Group 2

15 May 2015

Year 2 have not got any spellings this week due to their hard work preparing for SATs.