Wow, another week has flown by!

We have had a fabulous week this week, it's been a little different from normal but we've enjoyed it nonetheless!

On Monday the children were given their very own 'mini-me' and we went out onto the school field and took ourselves on an exciting adventure! We looked at the different physical features of the world and we used these ideas to create our very own adventure story, which we then came back and mapped on a story mountain.

On Tuesday, we used our adventures from the day before to write our very own adventure story. We modelled using all of the year 2 spelling and punctuation, as well as the different elements of writing within our story and the children have produced some really interesting and exciting pieces of creative writing!

In Maths this week, the children have been working hard to recall their 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables and have been practising counting in steps of 2, 3, 5 and 10 from a range of numbers, both forwards and backwards. We noticed that when you start from 0, if you count in 10s, every number ends in 0, if you count in 5s then numbers will always end in 5 or 0, if you count in 2s, then the numbers will always be even (unless you start on an odd number!!) and when you count in 3s, the numbers will alternate between odd and even. 

We then moved onto looking at word problems involving these times tables, where the children had to read a range of problems and decide how to find the answers, whether they were counting up to the number or sharing the total into groups of numbers. It was interesting to see who could identify how to solve the problem and produced lots of talking points for us to help us work out what we needed to do!

On Wednesday, we celebrated SPORTS DAY! The children all participated in a range of events, from sprinting, to egg and spoon race, to the obstacle course - we had a fantastic time and it was wonderful to see the children pushing themselves to be their best. The children's favourite part of the day was being absolutely soaked by Miss Freeman and her sprinkler!

On Thursday, the children had the opportunity to spend a little of their money on a range of stalls - favourites included pieing Year 6 children in the face and shooting them with a nerf gun!

The children absolutely loved our Computing lesson on Friday where we recreated William Morris's repeating patterns on the computers, and we shared our beautiful work with the class!

Have a wonderful weekend, we will miss you next week when you spend a few days with your new teachers, but look forward to having you back on Friday.

Best wishes,

Miss Freeman, Mrs Farmer and the Year 2 Team