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Beauty and the Beast.We all went to the West Yorkshire Playhouse to see "Beauty and the Beast." Lots of parents and family came with us and everyone really enjoyed the show.
We have been doing some writing and making sure that we think and talk before we write. We have been writing super sentences, by making a word web first, so we have plenty of ideas to help us. Our sentences are super sentences because we have tried to use lots of adjectives and connectives to join two ideas together. We have also been learning about speech marks and using Word to print our work out on the computer.
Enjoy our work... how hot are our sentences?
Learning our 2x, 5x and 10x tables.We have been working very hard learning our 2x, 5x, and 10x table. We have been singing fun songs, using bead strings, number squares, numicon, waving our hands and eating kit kat biscuits! Look at the super posters and displays we have made to help us remember our tables.
Sudoku.This week we have all enjoyed finding out what Sudoku is. We learnt how to play the game and them made word webs with lots of ideas to help us write an explanation of Sudoku. We tried to make super sentences using connectives, like and or because. We also tried to make our writing interesting by using adjectives. Have a look at some of our super sentences.
Anti bullying / Friendship posters.We worked together in our rainbow groups, and with the help our some of our mums too, we made these super posters to remind us to be friends with everyone. These super posters are now up on display and we are trying to remember the importance of being kind to everyone.
Anti bullying / Friendship Week.We used our computer skills to create posters on Revelation Natural Art. We have now learnt how to use a background from the clip art, change the font style and size and also flip the images used from the clip art. We are going to hang our posters up in the class room as we want to remember that friendships are important always ... not just in Anti Bullying week and we will continue to try and be friends with everyone.
How to make someone happy at school.Anti Bullying week starts on November 19th, we have decided to focus on friendship, as we feel that if we could all be kind and friendly to each other then we would have less bullying too. We used our skills at writing instructions to think about how we could help others be happy at school.
Children in Need.This week we have been thinking alot about "Children in Need." We made Pudsey bear lemon biscuits and enjoyed them on friday at our Teddy Bears picnic! We threaded very special 100 bead strings with a bear on it to help us in numeracy. In ICT we used Revelation Natural Art to make posters with bears in them! We have been collecting money for "Children in Need" too.
Steps to success for Instruction writing.1. We need to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces in sentences.
2. We need to make our writing neat so that others can read our instructions.
3. We need to try and spell words correctly - we sound out words to help us.
4. We need to make sure the title tell you what the instructions are about.
5. We need to list anything you need first.For the list we don't need numbers or full sentences. We put each thing on a new line.
6. We need to put instructions in the correct order. Number them and start each instruction on a new line.
7. We need to try and use "time connectives", like first, next and then.
8. We need to try and use some "Wow" words to make our writing interesting and exciting.
9. We must read it through and check it carefully.
Look at these instructions....
The steps to success have been used! Well done!
Instructions.In Literacy we have been learning all about instructions. We have been saying, following, reading and writing instructions. We have learnt how to play marbles, written instructions for Marbles and Pass the Parcel, and followed instructions to help us make divas for Divali and also Snakes and Ladders boards for us to play with. We worked as teams to create the boards and then in Happy Hour we played the game with our friends. Some of us were not too sure about the rules, so we will have to write the instructions for playing the game and then we can also lend the boards with the instructions to our friends in Year 1.
Sunflower display.When you enter Hovingham Primary School now, on a chilly Autumn day, you will immediately feel warmer when you see Year 2's fantastic display of our sunflower work in the entrance hall. We have finished our sunflowers models which we made with paper plates, tissue, paint and glue, and have put them together into stunning arrangements. We have put our paintings, computer pictures and sunflower poems together in our display. We have displayed the sunflowers which we made with a message on each petal of a positive action to take to make our class / school / world a better and happier place. We are all very proud of our work.
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