Year 2: Gallery

Year 2 Forest School 24th January

Date: 24th Jan 2022 @ 4:13pm

Today in Forest School we had to collect 'woolly worms' for our baby bird, fly together in flocks to escape the hawk, made birdy artwork and finished with a toasted marshmallow treat!

Mary's Little Lamb - Recorder Performance

Date: 23rd Jan 2022 @ 9:56pm

Year 2 have been practising to play their next piece - 'Mary's Little Lamb'. 

They play this in two parts, taking the part of the lamb when they aren't playing their recorder!

Listen here!

Lancashire Owls and Hawks Visit

Date: 20th Jan 2022 @ 6:15pm

Year 2 were treated to a wonderful visit from The Lancashire Owls and Hawks society this morning.

We all enjoyed hearing even more information about these amazing birds!

We stroked them and even hold one of them!

More balancing!

Date: 19th Jan 2022 @ 4:32pm

Today we were trying to improve our balancing skills.

We now know how to hold a pike, tuck, straddle and plank position.

How still can you be?

Testing joining techniques!

Date: 19th Jan 2022 @ 4:30pm

This week we tested 3 different ways to join a wheel axle to a chassis.

We then decided which we liked best, which we found easiest and which would be the strongest.

Year 2 Forest School 17th January

Date: 17th Jan 2022 @ 4:47pm

We had a great time again in Forest School! 

Today we listened and looked out for local birds.

Then we made bird feeders and homes for them.

 

Balancing in PE

Date: 12th Jan 2022 @ 4:04pm

We tried out our balancing skills in PE today.

We played Balancing Musical Statues and 'Worms and Ponds'.

 

Exploring vehicles

Date: 11th Jan 2022 @ 5:27pm

Today we had a close look at vehicle toys to find out how they work.

We found that the wheels moved round when we pushed.

The wheels were attached to an axle which was attached to the chassis of the vehicle.

In our next lesson we are going to test out different ways of attaching wheels axles to a chassis.

Multiplying using Arrays

Date: 11th Jan 2022 @ 5:22pm

Today we practised how to calculate multiplications using arrays which we made out of multilink cubes. 

We counted in the equal groups to find the total.

Forest School

Date: 10th Jan 2022 @ 4:49pm

We had a great time in Forest School this afternoon!

We had to impagine we were squirrels and watch out for the Buzzards and Polecats in our forraging game.

Then we created spiders and other mini--beasts out of clay and natural materials.

We ended with a camp fire song.

 

Party Day!

Date: 15th Dec 2021 @ 3:42pm

We had a great day at our party today!

We even had a surprise visit from Father Christmas who brought us some lovely books!

Smoothie Making!

Date: 14th Dec 2021 @ 12:21pm

Today we enjoyed making our Fruit Smoothies!

First we prepared our fruit and then we blended it together with juice and yoghurt.

Some of us liked it but some of us didnt!

 

Year 2 Warm-up Dance!

Date: 8th Dec 2021 @ 4:57pm

This half term, as part of our Fighting Fit theme, we have learnt about the improtance of exercise.

We designed our own warm-up dance to help others to be ready for exercise too.

We hope you enjoy it!

Year 2 Warm-up Dance

Tree Planting

Date: 7th Dec 2021 @ 3:25pm

Today we were busy helping Miss McKenna plant trees on the field in the wind and rain!

We are looking forward to seeing them grow!

Odd socks!

Date: 23rd Nov 2021 @ 11:20pm

We enjoyed odd socks day!

We talked about our differences and how we can celebrate being different.

During the week we talked a lot about using just 'one kind word' to make someone's day brighter.

Fruit tasting

Date: 23rd Nov 2021 @ 11:14pm

We enjoyed tasting different fruits in our Design Technology lesson to see which flavours we like before we design our ownfruit smoothies.

We tried fruit such as melon, mango, plum, pineapple and pomegranate.

Recorders Performance

Date: 14th Nov 2021 @ 10:27pm

Year 2 have amazed me with how quickly they have learned to play their first 3 notes - B, A and G and can now play this piece - 'G is for Game Boy George'.

Sit back and enjoy!

 

Year 2 Play G is for Game Boy George

Paralympics Day!

Date: 11th Nov 2021 @ 11:55am

We had a fantastic time during our paralympics activity session in the hall.

We discovered how tricky it is to save goals using only our hearing and learnt how to play Curling and Boccia.

Our Chair of Governors, Pat Jones came in to enjoy our session too!

Adding 2 2-digit numbers!

Date: 9th Nov 2021 @ 9:30pm

We have been learning how to add 2 2-digit numbers together using Base 10 equipment.

 

Planting bulbs!

Date: 9th Nov 2021 @ 9:27pm

Year 2 have been busy clearning planting beds, making room for some mystery bulbs!

They had to plant the bulbs underground to protect them over the winter. 

They will be keeping a close eye on them to see when they begin to show above the ground!

I wonder what their flower will look like!

Our Local Walk

Date: 21st Oct 2021 @ 2:45pm

We had a great time this morning on our walk around the local area.

We had to follow our map and look for landmarks and other different features of the area around us.

Thank you to our helpers who walked with us.

Tag Rugby

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 12:40pm

Today we really enjoyed our Tag Rugby session with Dave and Andy!

Recorder time

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 12:39pm

We are really enjoying learning to play the recorder!

We now know how to play the notes B and A.

 

Mono--printing!

Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 12:35pm

We have really enoyed our Art project this half term.

This week we put all of our ideas together to complete our prints of Penwortham!

Guinea Pigs on their holidays!

Date: 1st Oct 2021 @ 4:28pm

The guinea pigs love their weekends away with different families in Year 2!

Look at what they get up to!

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