Year 2: Blog items
Date: 16th Jul 2021 @ 1:17pm
As part of our Computing curriuclum, Year Two have been experimenting with the program Paintz. We have been practising how to use the different tools such as draw, paint, fill and make lines. We looked at different styles of artwork from famous artists including French artist Georges Seurat and Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. We then used these pieces as an inspiration for our own artwork.
Date: 7th Jul 2021 @ 2:20pm
We had a fantastic sports week and we were very lucky that the sun was shining for us. We made our teachers proud with vast amount of characteristics we displayed this week! We worked brilliantly in teams yet. We managed to be competitive yet supportive of each other and a good time was had all around.
Date: 28th Jun 2021 @ 7:49am
We have been learning all about 3D shapes. Here we were sorting 3D shapes by identifying and counting their faces. We also identified the shapes of the faces and decided the bast way to sort our shapes into groups. We also arranged our shapes in order of the least to most faces.
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 2:36pm
It has been RSE week in Boundary this week. Year Two have been looking at the differences between males and females. We started off by discussing if certain clothes or toys were specifically for males or females and this lead us into a discussion about gender stereotyping.
We then looked at the differences between male and female newborn babies and animals. We also learnt the proper names for male and female body parts. We discussed why it is important that we use the correct names for these body parts and how we should talk to a trusted adult if we feel uncomfortable about any physical contact.
Year Two showed great maturity throughout our learning in this topic area.
Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 11:35am
We were lucy enough to experience a dance lesson with a wonderful lady from the Royal Ballet Company. We created our own dances and movements based on the rainforest and we loved it! We linked it to our Science topic and thought about the animals and plants that we would see to inspire us.
Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 11:32am
We were very lucky to experience Now Press Play! We wnt on a virtual journey around the world idenitfying habitats and transforming our bodies inot the animals that live there. We were shocked to find out how us humans are destroying habitats and risking the lives of animals.
Date: 17th Jun 2021 @ 4:18pm
This week, Boundary Primary School hosted a day of dance workshops. The children in Year Two and Year Five each recieved a dance lesson from Sarah Gough (from the Royal Ballet School and Blue Moose Dance Company).
Boundary hosted dance training sessions and a staff meeting attended by teachers from other local schools and staff and pupils both learnt a lot throughout the day.
Year Five explored the topic of coasts through dance and Year Two visited the rainforest and the animals you would find there. A fantastic time was had by all!
Date: 10th Jun 2021 @ 10:09pm
As an introduction to our new topics of Animals and their habitats in Science and Sculpture in Art, we created our own animal paper sculptures. We had to listen carefully to each instruction and show many Boundary characteristics such as patience, resilience and creativity.
Date: 10th Jun 2021 @ 9:56pm
This week, Year Two have been investigating the properties of 2-D shapes. We have been comparing 2-D shapes and counting sides and vertices to classify shapes. We had great fun using an interactive geo-board to create a range of 2-D shapes. We made triangles, squares, rectangles, pentagons and hexagons. We found out about regular and irregular shapes and we were challenged to make as many different triangles, pentagons and hexagons as we could. We learnt that the same shape can be made in lots of different ways and to classify a 2-D shape we need to count its sides or vertices.
Date: 14th May 2021 @ 8:01am
In Science, we have been learning about electricity. We found out that in order for an electric current to flow around a circuit there must be no breaks in it. We were given a varity of scenario cards with different circuits on. We made predicitons as to whether these were working circuits and then tested them. After testing, we recorded our results and found out that our predictions were brilliant!
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:28pm
In Geography, we continued our learning on Australia. We learnt about natural and manmade landmarks. We started by finding some famous landmarks on a map of the UK and then went on to compare these to Australian landmarks.
In groups, we were given a wallet of jigsaw pieces. We had to piece these together to make 5 famous Australia landmarks. We then had names and facts to try to match up to our landmarks. Finally we located these famous attractions on a map of Australia! We just wish we could have visited these amazing places in real life!
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:25pm
Year Two worked hard in pairs to solve a division problem based on the story of 100 Hungry Ants by Elinor Pinczes. We worked together to find all the possible ways of dividing 36 or 24 groups of ants. We tried to work systematically to make sure we found all the possibilities and we had some great discussions about using known facts to help us find all the ways. This also led to some great reasoning about odd and even numbers.
Miss Hooson and Mrs Fielding were very impressed with the perseverance and stamina shown whilst completing this task.
Date: 10th May 2021 @ 4:16pm
After listening to and appraising aboriginal music, we moved on to using instruments made from natural materials such as wood and our body parts to compose our own pieces in small groups. We learnt what a crotchet was and we counted in beats of 4. In our teams, we composed our piece and practised, ready to perform next week.
Date: 26th Apr 2021 @ 10:09am
In music we started to look at aboriginal music. We linked this to our geography topic and decided to focus on Australian music. We listened to and appraised a variety of Australian Aboriginal music and we found it extremely interesting. We realised that to make music they used natural resources and their voices. We went outside and used resources that we could find in our playground, wooden instruments and also our bodies to compose our own piece of music.
Date: 20th Apr 2021 @ 4:37pm
As the Year 2 introduction to Electricity, we completed an exciting circuit of activities! We found that we could use static electricity to make our hair stand to attention and that by just rubbing a balloon against our jumpers we could make it stick to the wall! It was quite tricky but lots of us persevered until we were successful!
We also used static electricity to make salt and pepper jump from a bowl onto a comb! We loved watching this happen.
Finally, we used the snap circuits. We followed instructions to make weird and wonderful things. Some of us used the circuits to make alien sounds, some people made a fan fly across the room and some of us even made our circuits sing Happy Birthday!
We had a wonderful afternoon of learning and we can't wait to find out more about electricity.
The Wonders of the Human Body!
Date: 31st Mar 2021 @ 3:49pm
During our guided reading session, we were reading the book 'A Body Dictionary'. We loved learning all the amazing facts about the human body. Our favourite was ' We have about 5 litres of blood in our bodies- that is enough to fill about 15 drink cans.'
We were very intrigued to find out how much 5 litres was so after the session we decided to investigate what we could fill with 5 litres. We used a litre water bottle and filled a tub with water to represent blood. We couldn't believe that we had that much blood in our bodies! We tried to lift the tub of water and it was so heavy!
Date: 29th Mar 2021 @ 3:56pm
In PSHE we have been learning about Fire Safety! We learnt 3 key rules:
1. Get out
2. Stay out
3. Call 999
We also learnt that if there is smoke in the room, it will rise. This means that if we were ever in a fire we should stay low! We practised crawling out of the room and using the back of hand to test the door temperature. We also learnt about stop, drop and roll! We are now clued up on what to do in the event of a fire and we know how to actively prevent fires in the home.
