Easter!!

This week we have been doing lots of activities around the Christian celebration Easter....we have been making our own mod-rock egg cups and decorating them using the Pysanky art of decorating eggs at Easter. Pysanky is a Ukraine tradition at Easter time and is the art of decorating your egg with a meaning depending on the design you choose....

We are also making our own Easter palm crosses using green sugar paper and we have been looking closely at Palm Sunday.

Here are a few of us taking parts in some of the activities...

 

You can watch the method of making an Easter palm cross here...all you need is a piece of long thin paper!

 

Math Snow Day Games...The spinners!

Here is the link to the website with the spinners we have been using in maths... click on the image below...

Start by choosing 2 spinners and then set your value (in class we used any of the top 5 depending what you feel most confident with) and then spin them and decide what operation you will use in the middle and work out your answer before revealing it!! (Remember you will only be able to do suntraction if the first number is bigger than the second). Have fun!!! Let me know what equations you come up with!!

Sumdog National Challenge!!

Hi everyone unfortunately school isn't open due to the snow and the forecast for the rest of the day... BUT!!!!
There is a Sumdog National challenge beginning today!! That means you will not just be competing against children in schools in Leeds like before, but you will be competing against children in schools all over the UK!! Quick... log on on and earn some points, let's see if we can get some names on the leader board!!

 

It starts today and finishes next Thursday! Have fun!!!

Click HERE or on the Sumdog symbol on the right...

 

 

Disney Animations!

Today we were making our own Disney animations using the 2simple animations software on Purple Mash. We had lots of fun designing the slides and watching them come together as a short film...I couldn't upload them all but here are a few!!

 

 

 

 

Red Nose Day!

Today we all came in red and wore our red noses to support the worthy cause and donate money towards Red Nose day!!

 

 

Here we all are!!

 

 

There are some games you can play from the official website by clicking HERE

Fantasia!!!!!

In literacy this week we are focusing on the clip from Fantasia 'The Sorcerers Apprentice' and discussing the roles of the different characters and what we would magic if we were a Sorcerer!!

You can watch it and discuss your ideas here...

DT: Disney Hand Puppets

In Topic over the past couple of weeks we have been designing and making our own Disney hand puppets. We worked hard designing and labelling our initial idea and then using felt we have begun sewing and adding features to make our puppet.

Here we are deep in designing!!

Big Write Star March 8th

 

Tiyah

 

Tiyah uses very adventurous and descriptive vocab in her writing. She enjoys bringing her writing to life and engaging the reader. She also including the correct punctuation in the correct place. Well done Tiyah!!

2013 World Book Day!!!

This year our theme in year 2 was Roger Hargreaves....there were lots of Mr Men and Little Miss characters in our classroom today!!! We did lots of fun activities around the books and enjoyed the stories together. Which is your favourite character?!! Here we all are...

World Maths Day 2013!!!!

Today was World Maths Day and we had lots of fun competing in the worldwide competition. We played against children in lots of different countries, Poland, Russia, Japan, Australia, Canada, North Korea to name a few!!!

Here we are in action in the ICT suite....

Book Day Thursday 7th March!

Next week out literacy will be based around our class theme for World Book Day...Roger Hargreaves Mr Men and Little Miss books!!!

 

 

You can access the website where there are lots of games http://www.mrmen.com/...  if you go to the bottom of the homepage, there's a link to click that will take you are lots of activities and games you can look at and play.

 

What character will you come dressed up as on Thursday??!!

 

In literacy we are particularly focusing on the story 'Mr Nobody'. Look our for the photos of all the exciting things we get up to....

Doubling and Halving!!

Last week and next week we are parctising our doubling and halving skills....we are doubling and halving numbers to 20, doubling and halving shapes, quantaties and amounts and looking at half past, quarter to and quarter past on the clock.

• Practise your  skills by trying this Robin Hood dubling and halving game HERE
• or use the Beadgame HERE
• This is a simple bridge doubling game HERE