Autumn
Letter to parents and topic web
September 2021 - Meet the Teacher Presentation
Trips and visits
Christmas Crafts! (wb.13.12.21)
Oxford Story Museum trip - Wednesday 1st December
On Wednesday, Horse Chestnut class and the rest of year 2 went to the Story Museum in Oxford. We all had an amazing time!
When we arrived, we saw a storytelling show called 'Suddenly a Star'. This performance taught us lots of new stories, in musical and comedic ways. We all really enjoyed the show and loved joining in where we could/were asked to.
After lunch, we had a storytelling session where someone from the story museum told us a story about 3 men who were trying to find the greatest gift. Once we had been told the story once, we retold the story using different actions.
We then visited some of the different rooms in the Story Museum, including the Whispering Wood where we found a wishing tree and a sword in a stone. If we could pull the sword out of the stone that meant we were worthy of becoming the next King/Queen. Unfortunately, none of us could get the sword out of the stone!
Finally, we visited a part of the Story Museum based around The Book of Hopes by Katherine Rundell. There were 4 different sheds for us to explore: the doodle shed where we could write on the walls, the dressing up shed, a shed where we could talk to aliens and a shed where we could think about our hopes and write short stories.
Geography: In geography this week we learnt about the local area and mapped out where local landmarks were on a map. Following this, we learnt about compass points.
Music - wb 01.11.21
Here we are singing 'Hey Friends!'
Music - wb 01.11.21
Here we are singing 'The Music Is In My Soul'.
The Jolly Postman storyboards
Black History Month: Rosa Parks
History of bicycles and communication
Learning 'October's Party' storytelling style. We decided what pictures, symbols and actions would help us remember the words.
Money with Mrs Young
Post box walk. We posted some postcards we had written to our friends in our class.
As part of our Jolly Postman topic, we hot seated Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk. We all wrote questions and then took in turns being Jack.
We met the Postman!
Team Building : We played parachute games, they were lots of fun!
This term our math's topic was Place Value. Here we are using dienes to identify the tens and ones in two-digit numbers.
Observational Sunflower drawings
