Rainbow Class

Wow Friday has come round again quickly. 

This week in Rainbow class we have continued with our twisted tales topic in English. Looking at and discussing different settings. They described their own characters using adjectives.

We have been learning about capacity in Maths, the children did…

1. Looking at the twisted tale story of Maximus and the beanstalk.

2. Playing rounding rockets in Mathematics. 

3. Learning a dance routine to some Chinese music with Miss Leah.

4. Making fact sheets all about China.

5. Making some plaiting patterns using wool in our Art…

Happy New Year to you all.

Week one of 2023 has been a short but busy week in year 2.

The children started the week by writing some fantastic diary entries all about their Christmas holidays.

This week we have started a new topic on fairytales in English, discussing the features that a…

This week we have started our Nativity Boogie Woogie. If the children have a narator part they will bring their scripts home to practice.

English this week we have looked at verbs 

Maths we have started learning about fractions

History we looked at the key events and people in the…

Our big question is "Can you keep an Orangutan as a pet"?

In English this week we have been learning about Orangutans. Researching and creating fact files to be able to answer the big question.

"Orangutans like to eat sticks" Harley

"Orangutans need lots of space to swing around"…

Our top 5 moments this week

1. Learning all about Orangutans.

2. Counting forwards and backwards in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s.

3. Talking all about our own families. 

4. Making Bonfire pictures using lots of glitter.

5. On Friday afternoon we watched the pantomime Beauty and the…

In Phonics this week we have had a phonics hunt, finding the oy sounds. We have also had a Phonics pumpkin patch in our outdoor area. The children wrote sounds on them and then on Friday all children carved their own pumpkin to take home. A big thank you to Hunter’s dad for providing the pumpkins…

This week in English we have started our new unit of poetry. We have been looking at rhythm and rhyme and discussing what we enjoy in each poem. Our favourite poem has been Full of surprises by Paul Cookson. We have enjoyed using our imagination when telling each other what we would like to come…

This week in English we have written some fantastic letters to Grandma from Silly Billy.

During our Mathematics lessons we have been looking at measuring different classroom objects in centimetres and metres.

Our Science lessons this week have been all about the importance for humans to…

In English this week we looked at the story of Silly Billy and the story Operation night monster. We compared the 2 stories.

"My favourite story was Operation night monster because he scared his brother and I thought it was funny" Hunter

"My favourite was Silly Billy because he had worry…

We have had a fantastic first week in Rainbow class.

The children have settled back into school really well.

This week we have been looking at the story of ‘The Tiger who came to tea’

The children went on the laptops to research some facts about Tigers and then they wrote some…

Highlights of the Week 

1. This week was road safety week.

2. We have learnt stage 1, stage 2 and stage 3 of Right Start Child Pedestrian Training.

3. We have created road safety posters.

4. We have worked with the crossing patrol warden. 

5. We have created tally charts about…