The secret of life!

This week the children have been busy considering what all Living Things have in common. They were asked to finish the statement 'All Living Things...".   This prompted lots of discussions, explanations and questions. We finally all agreed on 7 different things that all living things do.

The children have now chosen their area for research and next week will be starting by thinking about what they already know and what they want to find out. Many children seem particularly interested in reproduction!

In Maths  we have started to look closely at number bonds, finding different ways to make a number using addition. We will continue working on this next week using practical equipment to see patterns and recording using the + symbol. Children will be learning and hopefully remembering  the number bonds for all numbers up to ten and then extend this to working with numbers up to 20 and 100 (in multiples of ten).

We have all been reading the story of the Enormous Turnip this week, acting it out, finding adjectives and noticing verbs in sentences. We will be continuing to look at verbs and how they change to form the past tense. Children have started  to write their own stories by introducing and describing their character. Next they will describe the setting in their story.

Illustrating adjectives using playdough.

2JS noticed that there was an unusual visitor in school on Wednesday so we crept off to have a little peak. The children used lots of adjectives to describe him!

Prickles the hedgehog.

The children have thoroughly been enjoying their golden time on Fridays. This time is a reward time for following the Golden Rules. It is always interesting to see what the children choose to do. Model making, using the ipads and creating games with toys brought from home have been popular so far.

Proclaiming their love of school and forming a
Dance Club during Golden Time

Next Friday is the Wai Kru assembly. This is always a lovely day where the children show respect to their teachers.


Well done to the Year 2 stars of this week.