Year 2 - Miss Morris

Welcome to Badger Class

In our class this year we have myself (Miss Morris), Ms Taylor and Mrs Stevenson. We will all be supporting your child in school, ensuring that they have FUN while learning! 
 

Parents, please keep coming back to this page to check for general updates on what is happening in school. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

Important Information

Outdoor PE : Tuesday

Indoor PE : Thursday

 
Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit for both of these days, it needs to be suitable for all weathers. Please ensure that your child continues to wear their school jumper or cardigan with their PE kit on these days. 

Our spelling day is Friday. Please make sure your child practices their spellings at home over the week and brings them completed in their folder EVERY Monday.  

Educational Games and Resources

Superheroes can help your child to embed their understanding in grammar elements they have learnt in lessons such as: punctuation, spellings, contractions and many more. 

Karate Cats can help your child embed their knowledge from within their maths lessons. Supporting them with addition, subtraction, shape recognition, positional language and much more!

Top marks is a great online activity to help your

child learn their timetables. Please encourage your child to practice their 2, 5 and 10’s and then their 3’s once confident. 

Reading Comprehension Activities

Our Learning Journey

Afternoon archery to end our residential trip!

Tractor ride around the farm. 

Carrot cake making and carrot planting. 

A little play time before getting on with our activities today!

Breakfast time and time to welcome back our day trippers!!

Morning jobs before breakfast: 

• Pig mucking out
• Feeding the lambs
• Collecting the eggs and cleaning out the chicken coops

Bedtime drink and snack while listening to a story. Hopefully everyone gets a good nights sleep!!

Farm jobs before our evening meal. Poop scooping in the horse and donkey fields, filling up the hay and straw in the animal pens as well as feeding the outside animals.  

Afternoon activities: 

• making meringues for our evening meal
• watching milking of the cows
• feeding the lambs
• petting the guinea pigs and rabbits

Playtime!!

Lunch time at the farm, ready for an afternoon of fun. 

The start of our trip feeding the animals on the farm. Including cows, sheep, goats and petting the lambs, horses and calves. 

Today in computing the children have continued to apply their basic knowledge of using coding. We started off by using micro:bit and then used a dance A.I coding programme. 

A HUGE congratulations to Valerija and Olivia who completed the whole coding activity in our computing lesson! Below is the link if you want to have a go at home. 

VE Day Celebrations

In our RSE lesson this week, the children have played a game of bingo related to the topic of staying safe on the street. Understanding ways to cross busy roads sensibly and what to do before crossing any road. By the end of the lesson, the children were able to explain safe ways to cross the road. 

To start our D.T topic of fruit salads, we have started by looking at different fruits and vegetables. Understanding which are grown in the UK and which aren’t, understanding which fruits need a warmer climate to grow. 

Today we have had the opportunity to join the author Eileen Browe who wrote the famous story of Handa’s Surprise. We got to hear some of her other stories too, as well as see some of her illustrations from other stories. The children loved listening to her stories and joining in with musical movements to retell the stories. 

Today, the children have had a visit from Jan at Lincolnshire County Council discussing the importance of how to stay safe online. Understanding how to stay safe, what to do if something happens and we are unsure, what to do if someone is being mean, how to report and block on games such as Roblox.  

Our final time with the ducklings out in the classroom! It has been an amazing experience for the children to observe. Hopefully we will get to see the process again before the summer!

Thank you to Olivia's Dad for coming into school today to show us Dave the bearded dragon. He has grown so much since we last saw him and he is still only a teenager!

Before breaking up for Easter, we have all enjoyed an Easter Bonnet Parade. The children did a great job  singing Easter songs and reading out the Easter story. We were also lucky enough to have the Easter Bunny visiting today too and a huge well done to Reggie for winning the Easter bonnet competition!

In Art this week, the children have been using the different shades of green that they made to create textured paint. As a class, we experimented with adding flour, salt, glitter and tissue paper.

A BIG thank you to Lincolnshire Farm Schools for enabling this to happen. We were given 11 fertilised eggs and we have got 8 little ducklings in total! The children have been very excited over the past few days watching them hatch and get fluffy so they could start handling them. They’re so cute!! Keep looking on our school Facebook page to see updates over the weekend 🪿🐣

In Art today, the children firstly used their skills of creating different shades of green. The used collected leaves and creating some leaf printing.

Thank you to Rafferty and Khaleesi for bringing in some of their frogspawn. We can't wait to watch them turn into tadpoles, then frogs! Linking with our Science topic of Animals including Humans.

Today for computing, the children have had to follow their instructions to create a rocket. Incorporating their sketchpad design along with their peers design to create a rocket in their pair. They all did a great job! Next lesson, we will be launching them and recording the distance they fly.

In our current maths lessons we are using our skills or multiplication and division. Please continue to support your child in practicing their 2, 5 and 10 time tables. Below is a great example of how the children could practice their new skill of understand arrays!!

In Art this week, the children have been mixing primary colours to create secondary colours. They did some great predicting of what the mixed primary colours were going to make. 

This week we have candled the duck eggs to see which have a duckling growing inside. We have been lucky enough to see 10 growing healthily and just one that hasn’t fertilised. It was a great experience for the children to see the difference!

Look at our amazing World Book Day costumes!

In geography today the children started by recapping last lessons learning, discussing the countries within The United Kingdom and their capital cities. Then we moved onto understanding symbols to support with mapping skills. 

As part of our World Book Day week, today the children have taken part in a theatre activity involving retelling the story of 'Where are the Wild Things' through dance, movement and expression. They did an amazing job at following the ladies instructions and completing a whole routine to retell the story!

We have started our new topic in art of patterns and printing. We begun by collecting leaves from around our school environment, then we used them to create a page of rubbings. 

A BIG thank you to Lincolnshire Farm Schools for bringing us some fertile duck eggs which we are hoping to watch turn into ducklings over the next 28 days. 

Today is Online Safety Day! Please have a look through these with your children at home, making sure they continue to understand the importance of staying safe while online.

In History, we have been learning about the Victorian times, starting by comparing what the kitchens were like back then to what our modern kitchens are like now. The children throughly enjoyed using the Victorian artefacts through role play!

In Science, Badger Class have been investigating which materials are waterproof from around the classroom. They began by using their predicting skills and the worked together to test each material. Some of the findings were surprising!! 

Prior knowledge to starting our topic of Money in Maths. Super retaining of information from previous teaching. PLEASE work with your children when paying for things out as a family, getting them used to giving amounts and receiving change, making specific amounts such as 32p, £8 - where they need to use their addition skills to support themselves. 

In Computing, the children have been learning about the term ‘algorithm’, understanding that it means ‘a set of instructions’. Therefore, the children got to spend time on an interactive Bee-Bot game, setting instructions for it to follow (link below). 

Today in Art, the children begun to create their chosen sculpture to replicate one of Antony Gormley’s creations. They started by using wire and secondly, using clay. They all did a great job, persevering with the wire which was rather tricky!!

In English, the children have been busy practicing their songs to go along with the story of The Three Little Pigs. They carefully read their song with a group of peers, practicing and organising who was reading which parts as well as putting together actions with their song. They have done an amazing job working as groups and performing to the class.

In Art this term the children will be learning about an artist called Antony Gormley. He’s a famous sculpture and is well known for his making of the Angel of the North statue. Here are some of the artist page creations they made today:

Merry Christmas Badgers!! 
 

I hope you all have a wonderful break spending some quality time with your family and friends. I hope Santa visits & I will see you all back at school on Monday 6th January! X

Here is a ‘just in case’ if your child wants to do some activities over the Christmas period..

Year 2 Christmas Party

To complete this terms unit of D.T, the children have had to make their own dinosaur fossil or bone. They have designed their own fossil/bone, as well as written instructions to follow for the making process. They worked in small groups to make the salt dough and have made great creations!

Today the children have been baking dinosaurs with Mrs Adams - and look at the children's lovely Christmas jumpers!!

Thank you Mrs Ingamells for our Christmas Santa Dash. They children had a great time dancing to Christmas music, making Christmas shapes with friends and building a snowman!

Christmas lunch in our penguin hats!

In Geography, the children have been working hard on creating their own map of the school. We focused carefully on the area of Key Stage 1, identifying the different rooms and areas as well a understand where each room was placed. They did an amazing job, understanding their direction of left and right.

Here is our class hamper ‘Red and gold, let Christmas unfold!’ - tickets are £1 each and is being raffled on Friday 6th at our school Christmas Fair. 

On Tuesday 3rd December, KS1 performed their Christmas Nativity of 'A King is Born' to the local community. It was lovely to have some past members of staff come back and enjoy the performance as well as the local nursing home of The Haven. The children are now VERY excited for their parents to come and enjoy the shows on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th.

Attendance treat time for getting 99.13%. Amazing work Badgers!!

To link in with our Dinosaur Day, the children had a visit from a bearded dragon too. He was only 3 months old and called Dave. They learnt lots of interesting facts about bearded dragons, including how they survive out of their natural habitat.

The children have taken part in a Dinosaur Workshop today, learning lots of interesting facts about dinosaurs as well as getting to look at dinosaur bones, teeth and footprints. The children also go to create their own fossil and fossil rubbings.

Pudsey Fun Run!

In Geography the children have been learning about different types of houses such as terrace houses, semi-detached houses, detached houses, bungalows, flats and many more. They have identified the type of house they live in and have now created another type of house out of junk box modelling. They did a great job!

Pudsey visited us ready for our activities taking place on Friday for Children in Need. 

The children had a visit from a local gentleman called Ralph on Remembrance Day to speak to the children about his time supporting our country during the war. He is also amazingly 100 years old! The children paid their respect at 11 o’clock by two minutes silence. 

Rhubarb Theatre visited today, making sure that all of the children are aware of how to look after their environment in order to keep our animals safe and healthy. The children thoroughly enjoyed it and understood the message!

Today the children made some transient art pieces from the autumn collections that they bought from home. They made snakes, hedgehogs, squirrels and many other things too!

Thank you to those parents/carers that managed to make it to our Reading Cafe, the children had a fantastic time sharing their favourite stories. The children were also wearing yellow on this day to show their understanding towards mental health day for children.

Now that the children are able to keep themselves safe on the computers, they have been playing around on paint. Showing their design skills, creating shapes and changing colours. 

Collage making in the style of Eric Carle, making their final creations ready to evaluate. 

SPACE DAY!

The children had a fabulous day completing space related activities including a visit into the planetarium. Also, a big thank you to those parents who came in during the afternoon to support their child in making a rocket. We had some AMAZING creations!

Also, many thanks to Khaleesi and Rafferty for donating this space activity to our class. It’s been a great way for the children to apply their learnt space knowledge and space vocabulary!

On Monday, we went to see the new school library. The children were amazed to see such a cosy, inviting area for them to spend quiet time reading books, magazines, newspapers etc. We ended our end of the day story there too!

Also, the children have been exploring different ways to print/paint in the style of Eric Carle. 

In RE with Ms Taylor, the children have been learning about stain glass windows. Understanding the reasoning behind them and where we would find them. Their final pieces look amazing!

In Geography we have started to talk about the landmark in central Boston, St.Botolph’s Church. Starting by finding it on a given map and then making our own maps including other places such as: Hawthorn Tree School, Maud Foster Landmark, the River Witham and Pilgrim Hospital. 

In Maths the children have been using place value charts to partition two digit numbers into tens and ones. 

In Science, we have started our topic of Seasons. Today the children have started by naming the four seasons, understanding that the seasons take us through the months of the year and repeat year after year. Finally they got to finger print leaves to the four trees to represent the leaves/weathers in each season. 

Over the past two days in English, the children have been showing what they can remember from last year’s learning. They have done an amazing job.. Remembering capital letters (not just for names of people but for places and days of the week too!), full stops, finger spaces AND using adjectives without reminders!

WOW! What an amazing first day back, thank you Badgers!

We have started our topic in art, looking at the illustrator of the known book 'The Hungry Caterpillar' - Eric Carle. The children have tried to sketch copies of his illustrations, followed by adding colour and next lesson they will be practicing brush strokes to mimic his techniques. We have some amazing artists in our class already!

The children have also had some 'free time' today, enabling them to become familiar with their learning environment and socialising with their friends. It is great to hear them on about the experiences they made over their summer break. 

Parents, please also remember to sign up to our class Dojo to keep up to date with any key messages, as well as to see what house points your child has achieved during the school day :)

Also, a GREAT congratulations to Beau on receiving her Summer Reading Challenge Award from the Lincolnshire Library. What an amazing achievement, well done Beau!