Friday, 10 October 2014

Poetry!

After listening to 'The Boneyard Rap' by Wes Magee, here are our raps we made up with Miss Coomber using instruments and actions to bring them to life! We had lots of fun with this activity.  
 
 

 
 

Our Fire of London Challenge


This week in our investigation area we had a challenge for the children to build Samuel Pepys a bridge, to cross the river and escape the fire. There were the following resources available: string, lolly sticks, rubber bands and scissors.

Can you think of the best way to make a bridge?







Big Write Star of the Week - Friday 10th October

        
Jake
Jake has improved his writing so much already during his time in year 2. He is using finger spaces and has been working on making his writing neater. He also has a clear sequence of events to his story and make a sure it makes sense.

Monday, 6 October 2014

The Boneyard Rap by Wes Magee

Over the next couple of weeks we are going to be doing poetry and this week we are learning a poem called 'The Boneyard Rap' by Wes Magee.

You can listen to the poem by clicking on the picture below....

http://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/25/11/lt-boneyard-rap-int-103259.swf
 
 
http://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/25/11/lt-boneyard-rap-int-103259.swf
 

Friday, 3 October 2014

DreamGiver

Here is the story of the 'DreamGiver' we have been looking at all week in literacy...


 
Can you describe what your dream would be if you had a Dream Giver fly in your room?
 
 

Big Write Star - Friday 3rd October

Harry
Harry always takes great care over his writing, he includes lovely description and always uses punctuation correctly. I really like the way he opened his story with a question for the reader and included speech using speech marks correctly. Brilliant Harry

Thursday, 2 October 2014

Milkshake Party


Today we celebrated our first milkshake party in class ... Every time we have a super lesson and everybody works hard, we get a milkshake straw in our milkshake party display and once we have filled each milkshake, we get to have a little party! Here we are having fun!!