Toy Workshop

The children have had a fantastic day learning about wooden toys from the past. We have learnt about one of the oldest toys made, how toys were made and the forces needed to make toys move such as push, pull and gravity. During the day, the children used a drill and hammer with support, to make a small wooden toy. They have designed and decorated their toy of choice before building it. They can't wait to play with them next week and to bring them home to share with you.

History - Toys

The children have been exploring toys from the past and comparing them to toys in the present. The children have used a range of vocabulary to explore they toys and look at similarities and differences between toys from the past and modern toys.

School Grounds Week

Week beginning 28th September is our School Ground Week. In Year 2 we have an 'Under the sea' theme. The children have taken part in a number of activities like making jelly fish, creating a fish picture, building a scarecrow and making themed wind chimes. We have all had lots of fun! They have also painted some sea shells to go alongside our under the sea theme, collected natural objects to make animals like fish, turtles, sharks and jellyfish and have enjoyed using the chalk to create some fish creatures. We hope you've enjoyed seeing them on our playground.

As our blocked learning this week has been computing, we have been outside to do an 'unplugged activity' where the children were using instructions (algorithms) to guide a partner to a place in the playground. We have also been on a bear hunt! We used the repeated phrases to say together and used our drama and acting skills to add to the story. 

DT - Pouches

The children will have bought home the pouches they have made in our DT lessons this week. The children have practised a running stitch before using a template to cut their fabric. They designed how they wanted their pouch to look before decorating their pouches. We think they all look fantastic!!

Maths - Flexibly partition 2 digit numbers

Here are the children working hard in maths using manipulatives to flexibly partition two digit numbers. 

English - The Toymaker work

Have a look at our fantastic work on the story 'The Toymaker' by Martin Waddell. We've explored the characters, wrote a diary, predicted what could happen in the second half of the story, wrote a character description and created a story map. We will link this work to our history topic 'How have toys changed?' later in the half term.