📖📚 World Book Day 📚📖

By A Aldcroft8th March 2024

Class 2 have absolutely loved celebrating World Book Day! Our theme was ‘The Circus’. 🎪🤡

We read the story ‘Ninja Nan’, all about a Nan who runs away to the circus leaving her grandson a letter explaining where she’s going. We decided we want to run away to the circus! We wrote a letter to our loved ones explaining where we are going and what we are going to be at the circus. We are improving massively on our handwriting, sentence structure and keeping our writing sitting on the line!

 

We also had a super special visitor from the circus come in and teach us various circus tricks. We had a go at each one and had such a fun time!!

🐣🐛🐑🌤 SPRING 🌤🐑🐛🐣

By A Aldcroft29th February 2024

Our new topic for this half term is Spring!
This week we begun talking about the changes which occur during spring. A lot of the children noticed the sun had been shining a lot recently, but it was still very cold outside. But they knew Spring is on the way!

We have opened our farm shop as well as our small world farm, we are looking forward to developing our vocabulary around all things Spring!

Chinese New Year

By A Aldcroft8th February 2024

This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year.
We have already looked at China in the past as we know that’s where some dinosaurs were found. Today we identified China on a globe and discussed the difference between China and England. We were amazed at how big China is compared to England!! We then found out that China has 1.3 billion people living there!!

We then watched videos on Chinese New Year and learnt lots of fun facts!!

Ask your child what they know about China and their New Year.

Today we learnt:

🇨🇳 Red is their lucky colour
🇨🇳 Before NY they clean their houses to sweep away any bad luck
🇨🇳 They then decorate their house with good luck messages
🇨🇳 They eat dumplings
🇨🇳 They get new clothes for a fresh start
🇨🇳 Celebrations are dragon dances and making lanterns

After discussing similarities and differences within our country and China we tried some Chinese food and discussed how it differs to the food we eat.

 

 

We also looked at how different Chinese numbers are compared to ours, we ordered them and then had a go at writing some Chinese numbers.

 

And then we created some amazing lanterns for the Lantern Festival to celebrate New Year.

Maths PACT

By A Aldcroft31st January 2024

This week we had a fantastic morning with our grown ups showing them how amazing we are in Maths!! We took part in so many fun, interactive Maths activities with our grown ups such as:

🌟 Doubling

🌟 Ordering numbers

🌟 Addition and subtraction using practical objects, lego and numicon

🌟 Number recognition

🌟 Subitising on a dice and identifying the numeral

🌟 Number formation

🌟 Board games to practise our number recognition, subitising and counting

Healthy Teeth 🦷

By A Aldcroft26th January 2024

This week we have been learning about how to look after our teeth and keep them healthy. We know to look after our teeth we must:

🦷 Brush them twice a day, morning and night
🦷 Eat healthy foods, only eating foods with sugar in sometimes
🦷 Visit the dentist regularly

We have been practising how to brush teeth correctly, as well as discussing what the dentist is like and the importance of visiting the dentist. We then sorted healthy and u healthy foods for our teeth.

The Dinosaur that Pooped the Past 🦖

By A Aldcroft18th January 2024

This week we have been reading ‘The Dinosaur that Pooped the Past.’

Class 2 were amazing at explaining the definition of ‘the past’. They could give me examples such as Christmas, their first day at school and breakfast time that morning! They also told me that dinosaurs lived a long long long long time ago!

After reading the story we went into our garden and found a massive POO!!💩 We knew that dinosaur must’ve snuck into our garden and did his business!

Class 2 came up with some excellent adjectives to describe the poo! They described how it looked, smelt and what we imagine it would feel like! As an extra challenge, we put one of our adjectives into a sentence.


The next day we came into school to find Tim the dinosaur had also done his business in our class!! We also wrote some fantastic sentences about Tim’s poo 💩

 

What’s in the box?

By A Aldcroft11th January 2024

This week we discovered a mysterious box in our classroom. It had ‘danger’ and ‘caution’ signs on so we knew it must be something dangerous!! The box came with some care needs, after reading the care needs and noticing the air holes we knew whatever was inside was alive! But what was it?
Class 2 impressed me so much with their imagination, they suggested the creature was a:

🦖 a green lizard

🦕 a huge spider

🦖 a colourful butterfly

🦕 a huge dinosaur

🦖 a huge, green beast

🦕 a bug, bad witch

 

We decided we need to make wanted posters, describing this creature in case anyone else had seen him creeping into our school!

The next day when we arrived at school we found the feature had escaped from the box!! A DINOSAUR😵

Class 2 came up with the idea that he was a baby dinosaur who was a bit scared looking for his Mummy, they have been amazing at looking after him. They even thought about some names for him and wrote them down.  

The Christmas Story…

By A Aldcroft20th December 2023

This week we performed our nativity to all our grown ups and we were incredible! We all remembered our words, used super clear voices and sang beautifully!!

We have also been reading The Christmas Story and have become fantastic at re telling the key parts of the story.

Rudolph the Elf🎄🎄

By A Aldcroft15th December 2023

We have a very mischievous elf who likes to get up to no good! This week we found him stuck to the clock!! We have no idea how he got there 🤷‍♀️ 😐. Class 2 used their problem solving skills to figure out how to help him. They came up with

🎄 Climbing on a table and pulling him down

🎄 Using tweezers to pick him out the tape

🎄 Using scissors to cut him out

🎄 Finding ladders to climb and rescue him

We decided it wouldn’t be very safe for us to rescue him, so while we were thinking of a safe way to rescue Rudolph we wrote him a letter.


 

The next day we came to school to find Rudolph had been rescued! He had written a letter back to us and it turns out Santa came and saved him while we were sleeping! Class 2 then decided to write a letter thanking Santa