The beach hut project is well underway in Year 2, with the children learning how to measure, cut and join wood together in preparation for making their beach hut frames next week.
Author: Sarah Crust
The children have practised their skills using chime bars to accompany songs and the first few chords on the ukulele.
What a privilege it was to take these children to Resorts World Arena to perform as part of a choir of over 5000 other primary school children! We sang our hearts out all afternoon during the rehearsal and then performed it all in the evening to a sell out audience. It was such a memorable day!
We have started our new Design and Technology topic called Beach Hut. We have spent two afternoons working on making our structures stronger, stiffer and more stable. We used newspaper, card, masking tape and paper. Now we are ready to make the real things out of wood!
Year 2 have been making the same amount of money in three different ways using a range of coins. We also discussed how we made the amounts using the smallest number of coins.
New Year! New Table Top Games Group! Snakes and Ladders fun and more games ,games, games to play and enjoy with Ms Rowe!
In maths this week, we learnt how to sort 2D shapes into different categories such as; 4 sides or less than 4 sides, yellow shapes or red shapes and vertices or no vertices.
WEEK 1: We made melted snowmen cookies! First, we mixed some icing sugar for the melted snow. Next, we stuck a marshmallow on top for the snowman’s head. Then, we decorated the snowmen to bring them to life. Finally, we enjoyed eating them!
Over the past three weeks, the children have created a sunset and winter tree silhouette. They first painted a graduated sunset background and then added hills and mountains before adding a silhouette of a bare, winter tree.