Year 2 (20-21) Blwyddyn 2
Croeso i Flwyddyn 2
Welcome to Year 2
Dosbarth Mrs Watkins
Year 1 & 2 Sports Day Races
Sprint race
Sprint race
Sprint race
Bat and bean bag race
Bat and bean bag race
Bat and bean bag race
Bat and bean bag race
Bean bag between knee!
Bean bag between knee!
Bean bag between knee!
Bean bag between knee!
Obstacle race
Obstacle race
Obstacle race
Obstacle race
GROWING TOPIC APRIL 2021
We did it! 🐝
Da iawn Blwyddyn 2! All your hard work planting has really helped to encourage the bees to visit our school. We now know from our survey this week that we are spotting lots of different species too. I am so proud of you!
The Lifecycle of a Bee
Music and Art
Year 2 listened to some classical music and drew pictures to show what the music made them think of. They didn’t know the title at first but drew some amazing pictures which matched the composers ideas!
Listening to music - what does the music make you think of?
Drawing pictures
Lots of busy bees!
Our pictures
Flight of the Bumblebee
When Year 2 had finished their pictures they found out the title of this piece of music by Russian composer, Rimsky-Korsakov, was The Flight of the Bumblebee (1900) from the opera, The Tale of Tsar Saltan. Lots of the children had actually drawn bees on their pictures and thought that the violins and flutes really sounded like bees! We thought it was very clever how Rimsky-Korsakov created these pictures in our minds. They also found out that the piece of music is about a prince who disguises himself as a bee so he can visit Tsar Saltan without being seen! In the opera, The Swan-Bird turns the prince into a bee and as he does he speaks these words:
| Russian | English translation |
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| (Гвидон спускается с берега в море. Из моря вылетает шмель, кружась около Лебедь-Птицы.) ЛЕБЕДЬ-ПТИЦА: | (Gvidon goes down from the shore into the sea. Out from the sea flies a bumblebee, whirling around the Swan-Bird.) SWAN-BIRD: |
We are very lucky in our class as we have someone who can speak Russian brilliantly! We are super proud of him as he reads the words.🤩
Our Russian expert!
Crazy About Bees!
Year 2 are on a mission to save the bees! We have been learning all about the decline of the bee population and realise how important they are for us and the planet. We wanted to make a difference so we have been doing lots of research to find out how we could help attract the bees to our school grounds. We contacted a bee expert from The National trust who gave us great advice about the plants and seeds we could grow. Thank you very much to parents for kindly supplying plants and seeds for us to grow. It’s so lovely to see the children on a mission to make a real difference to our planet. Take a look at the before and after photos below.
Feeding the Birds
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GROWING - our new topic
What a busy start to our new topic - Growing. So far the children have wanted to find out more about plants and teeth! This has lead us to a very interesting science investigation which really made us think about the affect of sugar on our teeth and how important it is to clean them properly. We made posters and our own comics to show what we had learnt.
Year 2 have also been inspired by the growing season, making different blossom artwork for a beautiful class display. They have planted sunflowers and even set up their own garden centre! Take a look at some of the photos of lots of hard work and fun.
Times Tables Fun
We have fun learning our times tables!
We sing them, play bingo and computer games and get active outdoors to help us to learn. We know how important it is to keep learning our 2, 5 and 10 times tables before we go to Year 3!
Times tables
Times tables
Times tables
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We had a visit from PC Woodworth who told us about the different roles of the Emergency Services.
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Summer term Newsletter (April 2021)
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Year 2 Choosing Board wc 22.2.2021
With school opening on a phased return for all pupils this week, you may wish to do some activities at home to keep you busy. However, there is no expectation for you to do so. You can also read your books in My Rising Stars and complete your daily maths activities on RM Easimaths.
For our dinosaur investigation we also decided to look at fossils, the children had real fossils to look at before we got messy and made our own using salt dough.
On Thursday afternoon we headed down for forest school only to discover more ‘caution’ tape and giant dinosaur footprints in the mud!! As we headed in we spotted a nest with magical eggs in and what looked liked dinosaur bones, the children then became little archeologists and got digging to discover more bones! We’re still waiting for our magical eggs to hatch but what an exciting week we’ve all had!
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Monday 8th February
Recapping on halves and quarters
Give Me Half!
What is a verb?
Tuesday 9th February
Safer Internet Day
Detective Digiduck
Wednesday 10th February
Directions and turns
Thursday 11th February
Friday 12th February
Monday 1st February
Amazing Adjectives
Tuesday 2nd February
Wednesday 3rd February
Michael Recycle read by Mrs Watkins
Thursday 4th February
Pizza Fractions
Friday 5th February
Mrs Jones reads a story
Home Learning plan and resources wc 25th January 2021
Monday 25th January 2021
The Rubbish Monster read by Mrs Watkins
Tuesday 26th January 2021
All about Recycling read by Mrs Watkins
Wednesday 27th January 2021
Thursday 28th January 2021
Friday 29th January 2021
Recycling song
Sioni Rhew read by Mrs Jones
Home Learning Resources wc 18th January 2021
Monday 18th January 2021
Tuesday 19th January 2021
Wednesday 20th January 2021
Thursday 21st January 2021
Friday 22nd January 2021
A story read by Mrs Jones
Home Learning Plan 11th January 2021
Capital letters and full stops
Telling the time - half past
The Great Pet Sale by Mick Inkpen read by Mrs Watkins
Home Learning Resources w.c. 11th January 2021
A story read by Mrs Jones
Home Learning plan 6th - 8th January 2021
Home Learning resources 6th-8th Jan 2021
Home Learning 6th - 8th Jan 2021 videos
Telling the time - o'clock
We have had a very special visitor!
Year 2 Merry Christmas.mp4
Christmas Activities
This week we have been engaging with the Five to Thrive resources on the Children in Need website:
https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/schools/primary-school/five-to-thrive-hub/
Today we focused on getting active with Joe Wicks! Year 2 worked in groups, each had a Head Coach who guided their group through workouts devised by Joe. We certainly have some talented coaches and fit children amongst us! Well done Year 2.👍😄
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Our firework display!
We have started our topic - 'All Creatures Great and Small' and have been learning all about snails.
Watch the video to see how fantastic Year 2 are!
All About Snails - Year 2 Talk for Writing
Da iawn Blwyddyn 2!
The children have all settled back brilliantly this week. They should feel very proud of themselves.
We have:
- shared our feelings with the help of The Colour Monster
- followed instructions to make rainbows
- counted up to 100
- logged on to the laptops by ourselves to do RM Easimaths
- used amazing words to describe our colour palettes
- painted rainbows and made rainbow poems
- read The Rainbow Machine in our shared reading sessions and were inspired by the story to make our own whacky rainbows
- played in the Siop Fferm
- had fun with water play and construction
- chosen books to read with our friends in the new reading corner
- played games like snakes and ladders and giant dominoes outdoors
- started our new class read - The Twits
What a busy week!
Welcome back! Year 2 newsletter September 2020
Our Year 2 classroom has had a makeover!
