Living and Learning: I can talk about my feelings
We started off our lesson by thinking about how we felt today. We had lots of different emotions such as happy, excited, grumpy and nervous. We spoke about how we can feel lots of emotions in a day depending on what it is we are doing. We looked at a list of different feelings and thought about:
- Where in our body we experience this feeling?
- What might happen to our face when we feel it?
- What might happen to our body when we feels it?
We then worked together in groups to read some different scenarios and think about how the characters would be feeling in each one. We then read some help cards and discussed which of the suggestions would be best for helping the characters.
Help at home: What emotions have you felt today? How did they make you feel? What could you do if you needed some help with your emotions?
Living and Learning: Anti-bullying day and odd socks day
We kicked off anti-bullying day with our odd socks to celebrate that we are all unique and different.
We explored our school definition of bullying, created by our junior leaders, by looking at what some of the words meant.
What are the different types of bullying?
Our school definition helped us understand the different types of bullying – physical (hurting our body), emotional (hurting our feelings) or cyber bullying (online).
Our main message is Start Telling Other People and to continue to do that until you are heard.
Seeking help can be done in a number of different ways.
Who could you tell? (taken from our child friendly anti-bullying policy)
- Safeguarding team – Miss Beetson, Mrs Small, Mrs Walshaw
- Any other members of staff
- A trusted adult
- Someone in your family
- Friends
- Childline (0800 1111)
- Write a worry slip and put it in your Living and Learning box or the whole school worry box (outside the school office)
- Email stayingsafe@spherefederation.org
Help at home: discuss our school definition of bullying with your child. Do they know the difference between falling out and bullying, and between a one-off situation and something that’s happened more than once?
Children in Need
Thank you for all your support raising money for Children in Need.
We have raised £140 for the charity.
Reading: James Mayhew
In our English sessions, we have been reading the book Katie and the Mona Lisa by James Mayhew. Today, we zoomed the author James Mayhew . During our zoom he told us how he came up with his ideas for all his different books through sketching things such as the characters, costumes and buildings. He told us sometimes the drawings go wrong but that’s ok because this helps him to develop and write his stories. He then modelled how he uses drawings to create a story. We listened and watched in amazement as he told a story all about St George, a dragon and a princess whilst he illustrated at the same time.
He read us another of his knight stories. He told us that he likes to find and read old stories and use these to inspire his writing.
During our English lesson last week, we thought of some questions that we’d like to ask James Mayhew about his book Katie and the Mona Lisa.
Where did you get your inspiration from?
Why did Grandma smile secretly at the end of the story?
How did you draw the Mona Lisa so well?
Why did Mona Lisa choose to speak to Katie?
We learnt that the inspiration for the book came from a trip he took to Florence when he visited an art gallery and that he has had over 70 books published. He told us he first started to write when he was 20 but it took 5 years to get his first book published. We spoke about how we have to be resilient.
Help at home: Have a discussion at home about our zoom with James Mayhew. Can your child remember any of the interesting facts he told us. For example: Where does he get his inspiration from? How old was he when he first started to write? Where do his ideas from for his books? Who is the character Katie based on?
Me and My Money Themed Week
As part of our Me and My Money themed week we have been doing lots of different activities around money.
In English, we looked at how money is am important part of most people’s lives and the difference between using money to buy something we need and something we want. We also discussed where money comes from e.g. earning or being given and how people make different choices about how to save and spend their money. We also talked about where we can keep our money e.g. a bank or a money box and how some places are safer than others.
In Maths, we’ve been looking at the different coins and their value. We have been comparing the value of coins and making different values in a variety of ways.
We’ve also been comparing the value of some everyday products by ordering them from the least to the most valuable. We used our new oracy target which is building on the views of others, to have a respectful discussion.
Thank you for the coin donations for our penny trail. We enjoyed adding them to the trail this morning.
Help at home: Watch the Money Matters video clip and have a discussion at home about how we get and use money, where money comes from, the difference between needs and wants, budgeting and saving. Take the quiz at the end to see how much you can remember about using money.
Library Visit
Today, we went on a visit to Wetherby library. Before we left school we spoke about ways we can keep safe.
We need to listen to the teachers.
We need to wear our hi-vis jackets.
We need to stay with our partners.
We need to walk in a single file line when there are people coming past us.
At the library, we were greeted by the librarian and she told us where we could find a range of fact and fiction books. We then listened to some questions and we had to decide whether they were fact or fiction.
After we had chance to explore the library and look at lots of different books. We chose 5 library ambassadors who selected 5 books to bring back to school so we can enjoy them in our reading corner.
Well done Year 2, you were fantastic listeners and represented our school very well.
English – Reading
Our class novel is The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton. Today, we read an extract taken from the book.
“Moon-Face’s house in the tree, was very peculiar.
It was one round room, and in the middle of it was
the beginning of the slippery-slip that ran down the
whole trunk of the tree, winding round and round
like a spiral staircase.Round the top of the slide was a curved bed,
a curved table, and two curved chairs,
made to fit the roundness of the tree trunk.
The children were astonished, and wished that they
had time to stay for a while.”
We used a dictionary to find out the meaning of some unfamiliar words – peculiar and astonished. We learnt that they are both adjectives.
We thought of some sentences of our own to include these words.
“My friend was acting peculiar.”
“Peculiar is a peculiar word.”
“I was astonished when I saw all the presents.”
“I was astonished when I saw a bee downstairs.”
After, we drew what we thought Moon Face’s house would look like based on the words from the text. Have a look at some of our ideas!
Maths: ordering numbers
This week, we have been comparing and ordered two digit numbers from the smallest to the greatest and from the greatest to the smallest and using the < (less than) and > (greater than) symbols.
Help at home: Choose 3 two digit numbers and order them.
Challenge: Can you add in the < (less than) and > (greater than) symbols?
Topic: Local walk to Sandringham Park
On Tuesday, we went to Sandringham Park to answer our fieldwork question.
What types of green spaces are in our locality and what are they used for?
How could they be improved?
We walked sensibly and safely to the park and when we arrived we thought about the following questions:
- Is there a playground?
- Are there places to sit down?
- How many rubbish bins can you see?
- Is there an area to walk dogs?
- How does the park keep people and animals safe?
- Why do you think the council want to change this green space?
- How did we stay safe during our fieldwork?
Help at home: Talk with your child about other green spaces in your local environment. What are they used for? Could they be improved?
20.10.23
Please practise ready for a spelling quiz on Thursday 26 October 2023.
- are
- ask
- be
- by
- come
- do
- for
- friend
- full
- go