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
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.
Our Learning Journey
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!
