This week, we learned about how light is important to Hindus and Jewish people. We learned all about the festival of Diwali and we created our own diva lamps. We also learned about Judaism and the history of Hanukkah and created our own menorah. We thought about what materials we could use to create each and had fun using salt dough to mould our diva lamps. Once they were cooked and set, we chose bright colours and glitter to make them eye catching.
Year 2 Blog
Enjoy looking at our Year 2 creative learning blog.
Making a hedgehog home!
This week, Year 2 received a letter from ‘Henry the hedgehog’. He asked us for some help to build a waterproof home with transparent windows. We had fun putting on our scientific hats to spend time testing out various materials to see which we thought would be most suitable for him. After our research, we had a go at building him a home using materials of our choice.
Where we live…
This week we have been Geographers learning about where we live. We have looked at maps to see where we live and learnt that we live on a continent called Europe. It was fun looking at a birds eye view map of our school – we spotted the muga and our playground!
We then enjoyed creating our own birds eye view map of our classroom. We challenged ourselves to include a key on our maps.
Seven techniques for helping kids keep calm
Try these simple relaxation and mindfulness activities together and help your child learn to calm down when they feel stressed or anxious. Follow this link to access the resource: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/joinin/seven-techniques-for-helping-kids-keep-calm
Week 7 – Magic mixtures!
During outdoor learning this week, Les Grenouilles wrote poems about magic mixtures. We used natural materials like red autumn leaves and prickly conker cases to help us imagine interesting ingredients.
Week 6 – making aeroplanes
This week, we made paper aeroplanes and learned about the forces that keep paper aeroplanes and real aeroplanes in the air. We also experimented to see if changing the shape of the wings affected how well our aeroplanes fly. We enjoyed testing how our paper planes flew!
Check out our amazing paper aeroplanes…
Year 2 celebrate World Mental Health Day
As part of their work celebrating World Mental Health Day, Year 2 produced some cards and letters to encourage and/or people who are special to them. Take a look at some of their creations! Well done Year 2!
Year 2 Week 5 – Leaf art
We created art using leaves we found on our trip to the woods. By thinking carefully about the colours and patterns we saw on the forest floor, we tried to recreate this in our art. Once we had made our paintings, we looked at our class friends art work and spoke about what we noticed and liked.
Week 4 – A Trip to the Woods!
This week, we walked to the local woods. We had so much fun exploring! We chose our favourite leaves to use for some art work at school, worked with our partner to build a house/hotel for a bug or small animal, built stick towers, wrote our names using natural resources and went on a scavenger hunt for different types of objects.
