Week Beginning 12/12/16

The final week of the term has been filled with lots of fun (and of course learning!).

The week started with a special cooking arranged and delivered by members of the Norse Catering team. We learnt how to make stained glass cookies by melting hard boiled sweets to create a coloured transparent window. We also used an upside down gingerbread man shape to ice some Rudolph gingerbread biscuits.

In literacy, we finished off writing our instructions; making sure we included lots language and layout features. We included: titles, sub-headings, numbered steps, commas in lists, an introduction and top tips. We made our sentences detailed by using time adverbs, conjunctions to explain and adjectives and adverbs to describe.


In maths we have been practising the skills we have learnt this term. We have been solving mixed word problems involving different measure such as length and capacity and Christmas themed problems. We have been working in pairs to discuss the most efficient methods and making sure we are choosing the correct operation to solve the problem.


Tuesday and Wednesday brought the performances for the much anticipated key stage 1 Nativity play. Both performances were a roaring success, as the actors, actresses, readers and singers stunned the  crowd with their enthusiastic and confident performances. Well down our year 2 children!

On Wednesday, whilst the year 2 children completed the their final performance, the year 3 children kept themselves busy by learning about Spanish Christmas traditions.

We made these festive little critters, a tradition from the Catalonia region of Spain. They are called Tio de Nadal. It's a very funny tradition, As us to explain!

It was lovely to see so many faces at the church on Thursday for the childrens' Christmas service. Finally thank-you for all your support  this year and see you in 2017  for a fresh new term.

Week Beginning 5.12.16

This weeks blog it brought to you by Meaghan and Miss Palmer...

Literacy

Today we had a big surprise! We had a goblin in our cupboard  and he squirted pink paint all over our floor and left tiny little footprints! We decided to write steps for how to catch a goblin. After we had done all that hard work, we went down  to the carpet and Miss Palmer told us it was a trick all along. Lets hope she gets the paint off the floor! We have been using time adverbs, conjunctions to explain and adverbs to make our sentences really detailed. This was after looking at the layout of lots of different instructions. 

Science

This week in science,  we took a  piece of paper and a torch and we held the torch and moved the paper backwards and the size of the shadow changed. We designed an investigation to to see how much the size of the shadow increased when we moved it closer to the light. 

Maths

In class this week in maths, we have been learning all about measures. We learnt how to use a ruler accurately, measuring and drawing in mm and cm. We also practised calculating increments on scales and how to read scales for capacity.

Spanish

In Spanish this week we have been counting to 30. We played a Spanish board game to help us learn.

Next week is a big week as we prepare for lots of Christmas activities. We will be enjoying some Christmas cooking on Monday with some visitors and will also have a chance to see the Key Stage 1 nativity. Good luck to our year 2 children we cannot wait to see it! On Thursday Morning at 9:30am we will be heading to the church for our Christmas service, see you there! Finally, don't forget to wear your festive jumpers for the last day of term. A £1 donation has been suggested to raise money for Save the Children. 

Week Beginning 28.11.16

Music

As usual, Monday started on a musical note, as the year 3 children learnt to hold their bows correctly. It was very tricky getting the finger positions just right. We also learnt lots of exercises to help us strengthen the muscles in our bowing arm.  We also learnt three new words that will help us when we compose: pizzicato, arco and tremolo. Ask us what they mean!

Literacy 

We learnt how to use a dictionary this week to find the definitions of interesting words. We learnt how to find the right section of the dictionary quickly, when looking up a word by using the four quartiles and the information at the top of the page. We looked up words, searching with the first three letters and corrected some that were written incorrectly. 

We also started our new non-fiction literacy topic: instructions. We started by identifying the useful language used when giving successful instructions whilst  we played barrier games. It was such a challenge! We had to make sure to include lots of details and use lots of accurate positional language. 

Maths

What an exciting week we have had this week with maths! During our maths sessions we have had a week of inspirational maths with a strong focus on positive thinking and growth mind-set. Did you know when you make a mistake your brain actually grows? We have been making plenty of mistakes, taking our time, persevering, believing in ourselves and visualising maths as we attempted different investigations everyday. 

In other news...well done to some of our year 2 children as they went out of school for an agility event. They hopped, skipped and jumped their way though twelve different challenges to earn themselves lots of sticker and a certificate. 

Finally, there are a few places left on the year 2/3 evening reading cafe. Come and enjoy a story with Miss Palmer and Mrs Cryan in the year 2 classroom and a hot chocolate with friends before bedtime.