Year 2

Dear Parents, We've had a lovely week continuing with our exciting topic. We made our own mixtures in science. We observed carefully and used scientific voacubulary to describe what happenened when we mixed water with food colouring, glitter, cooking oil and Alka seltzer. In maths we were adding with our 'chips and peas' (tens and ones). In English we have been practising our neat joined handwriting. We have also Predicted what might happen next in our class book and written our own versions. We finished our whale and dolophin collages in Art this week and the children created some fantastic pictures. The children enjoyed thinking about how we are all different and alol special today, as part of 'Mental Awareness' day. Have a lovely weekend.

Dear Parents, it's been another lovely week and it was great to meet a lot of you at our Zoom parents evenings. Please could you send in a small disposable plastic water bottle before Thusday? We are doing something with them during our Science lesson on Thursday and it would be great if every child had a bottle to use please. This week we have enjoyed making whale pictures in Art, using a wax resist method and then marbling the backgrounds. We also had a session of listening to dolphin and whale sounds and music and drawing abstract art and patterns. This was done in a similar style and manner to how Kandinsky likes to work. We are all enjoying reading George's Marvellous Medicine together during our snack/story time after play every day. We have also started improving our handwriting every morning, during registration. In English we all wrote instructions for how to make an egg box dragon. The children all worked on this piece of writing independently and did really