Poetry!!!!! And the Boneyard Rap!

For the next couple of weeks we are learning about poetry in year 2....  We started learning a fun poem today called 'The BoneYard Rap'

You can listen to it here and practise the words!! ----> Boneyard Rap

 

 

 

Here are some of us in full poetry swing, definitely some budding poets in year 2!!

 

Adding music to our poems

Matching the instrument to the type of words....

Tapping out the beat.

What action is it here?

All together!!!

Super performance!

All together again!

Making rhyming sentences with the rhyming cards.

Deep in thought!

What shall we have to rhyme with this word?

Using props to inspire out poems....what rhymes with mouse?

Our group poem!

More performing!

Instruments to go with this line...

Another super poem!

Instruments at the ready!

Matching the sound to the type of word.

Actions too!!

Another poem!!!

 



Electricity Games

Here are the games we are playing this week whilst learning about electricity.

Can you think of some things we have that run on electricity that they did not have in 1666 when the fire of London happened?

Light the Light Bulb

 

Explore the House

 

http://www.switchedonkids.org.uk/

Another Super Big Write Session!

Here we are again, all busy and using our imagination in our Big Write session on Friday! I am so proud of the quality of writing everyone is producing, I can see how much you have all progressed already since we came back at the start of September! Keep it up year 2 you are making me so happy!

Big Write Star of The Week!

Megan!

 

Megans big write had a beginning, middle and end. She included speech in her story and built up suspense for the reader! A fantastic and exciting story well done Megan!!

 

 

Place Value Game

Here is the place value game we were playing in maths today....

---> Lifeguard Place Value

Here are some anothers you can try to practise recognising your tens and units....

----> Shark Numbers

----> Dino Place Value

Have fun!

Samuel Pepys Diary!!

Here is the story and game we have been learning about this week to understand about the Great Fire from Samuel Pepys point of view.

Can you write a diary extract imagining you lived in London when the fire happened? What would it have been like?

 

Click here for the interactive story and games

 ---> Samuel Pepys Story

 

Creative writing in literacy this week!!!

In literacy this week we are writing our own creative stories using props. We are working in a group to write a story and particularly thinking of super openers for our sentences. Can you think of a sentence to start with these words...


Amazingly....

Worryingly....

However....

Surprisingly....


Here we are getting down to our stories!!