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Gymnastics

Last week, we learnt how to make different shapes using our bodies. We practised these on the floor. This week, we transferred these to off the ground. Some shapes were a lot harder to make off-ground! The shapes we learnt are: Pike, Straight, Arch, Dish, Straddle, Star and Tuck. Can your child say which shapes they can see above?

18 November 2016

This week, I will not be giving your child a spelling list. Instead, during our spelling test on Friday 25 November, I will read out ten sentences that contain at least one apostrophe. Your child will need to figure out which words need an apostrophe and use it correctly. For example…

• Some of my book’s pages were torn. (Here, an apostrophe is needed because the book ‘owns’ the pages.)
• I believe they are Mr Jones’ golf clubs. (An apostrophe is needed to show Mr Jones owns the clubs, and in this case it comes after the s because Mr Jones has an s at the end of his name.)
• I can’t believe you lost your book. (There’s a missing letter here, because can not has been contracted.)

To prepare for the test, your child should practise using apostrophes for possession and contraction/omission.

18 November 2016

This week’s Practice Makes Perfect homework links to the English learning we’ve done this week and what we’ll go on to learn for the next few weeks.

To be able to add detail to my writing.

Having learnt all about adding detail to writing in order to keep it interesting and make it descriptive, write the opening to a story using these techniques:

• expanded noun phrases,
• prepositional phrases, and
• adverbs.

Don’t forget, you only use one page for a piece of homework and I only want the opening. We’ll then look at these together in our homework review. While your writing, think about what you’d like to write a full story on as this will be our English learning in the run up to Christmas.

18 November 2016

This week’s Talk Time homework links to Anti-bullying Week and the discussions we’ve had in class.

What is bullying and what can I do about it?

Talk to each other about what bullying is; it’s also important to talk about what bullying isn’t so that we can recognise when something is and isn’t bullying. Then, make sure that you know how to deal with bullying if you experience it yourself or see it happening to someone else.

Don’t forget to write a few notes to aid the discussion we’ll then have in class.

18 November 2016

Our spelling list leads on from our spelling activity from last week. These are the homophones that Year 6 need to learn – remember it’s not the spellings that are tricky but knowing when to use them so you need to practise using them in sentences correctly.

Year 2 famous artists for a day

This afternoon saw the opening of the Year 2 Art Gallery.  Thank you to all family who came to visit. We hope you enjoyed seeing all the amazing work Year 2 have produced during our Katie and… topic.

You could have a read of the books that helped us create all of this fantastic art.

You could put on your headphones and listen to the pieces of music (Adagio for Strings and O Fortuna) and then show the different emotions in your art.

You could take a vote on your favourite piece of art.

You could spend the time viewing the many pieces of artwork. 

We hope you enjoyed our hands on live poppy field art for Remembrance Day.

Did you attempt some spirograph art?  It’s not as easy as it looks!

Thank you for the donations to our school charities, Leeds Mind and Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

We have been very impressed with the engagement and enthusiasm from the children throughout this topic.  We will miss Katie and her adventures.

Class Assembly

Our class assembly is tomorrow at 2:40pm!

York’s Chocolate Story

We had a great time yesterday at York’s Chocolate Story. We learnt about the history of chocolate and how York has played a huge part in its history. We were introduced to the founding families of confectionery companies such as the Rowntree family, the Fry family and the Terry family.  We learnt about jobs at the factories and what factory life was like. Did you know that the Rowntree factory in York has its own fire department? York still plays a big part in chocolate production in the UK – did you know that 6,000,000 KitKats are made each day in York?

Here are some pictures to show you some of our exciting day.

Chocolate Tasting
– When we held our noses, we couldn’t taste it!
– Not everyone enjoyed the very dark chocolate!

We made chocolate lollies!

We watched the chocolatier make chocolates.

Jobs in the factory
– The women are putting the foil on chocolate eggs.
– The man in checking the quality of the cocoa beans.

Getting ready to make lickable wallpaper – ask your child why they had to wear blue.

Happy with their creations.

We walked past York Minster and one group took a stroll down The Shambles.

Anti-bullying tips

Thank you, Emma (Year 2) for recommending CBBC for lots of Anti-Bullying Week advice.

Spelling practice

Here’s a great example of spelling practice from last week. We’re always trying to think of fun and creative ways of practising spelling so that it doesn’t become boring.