Welcome to Year 2 at Hovingham Primary School. 2008-09
This is the beginning of another very exciting year. Mrs Fisher has changed what we are going to do this Year, and has created a new and exciting plan.
Here is the plan for the first half of the Autumn term.
New School Rules
On the New Plan for this term, you can see that we have new school rules.
We have made some rainbow collages and then added the school rules and a picture of the children making the collages. These super pictures are displayed in our class windows, so that we can remember the rules at all times.
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Numeracy.
We have been enjoying Numeracy and now that we have a new dividing wall between our class and 2 Yellow, we have been able to start a new super sized Numeracy Working Wall! We have been making lots of posters about our learning, and have taken photographs of some of our work.
Look at our super work on more than and less than, addition and place value.
WALL.E
Year 2 and Year 3 went to see WALL.E at the Cottage Road Cinema in Headingley. The cinema kindly put on a private viewing for us all. We looked at maps and satellite pictures of the route we would travel from Harehills to Headingley. The cinema kindly sent us details about the history of the cinema and we learnt that the cinema had been open since 1912! We compared pictures of families and school children in 1912 with how we dress today!
We all really enjoyed WALL.E and the film has made us think about what might happen to earth if we don't all take care of the world.
We have started to build our robots and soon we will be giving them names and they will become characters in our own robot stories! Here are pictures of our robots beginning to take shape.
Continued Robot building.
After we had made the shape of the robot we covered the boxes in paper and started to paint our robots. When the paint was dry we added decorations and the robots name plate. Mrs Fisher had been to a scrap recycling centre and we were able to stick on lots of electronic parts to the robots.
Now our robots are really beginning to look super!
Next we looked at how to make an electric circuit and learned how to make a bulb light up with wires and a battery, connected to make a circuit. we were able to use this knowledge to make the eyes of our robot light up!
Look at our robots now!
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Robot Stories and Instructions for making Robots.
In Literacy we have used our robots as characters in our own stories.
We made a class story mountain planner and then we all changed some of the details to create our own versions of the class story. We pretended that the robots were Headteachers! When the children in the class were not following the school rules, the robots had their own ways of getting the children to behave!
We also wrote instructions on how to make the robots. We used 2Publish+ to print up our stories and instructions and draw pictures of the robots.
Trip to the National Media Museum and learning about Photography.
We have been following instructions and have learned how to take photographs. We have new Kodak digital cameras in class and went to The National Media Museum to find about the history of Kodak and the life of George Eastman.
We took the cameras with us and took lots of photographs in the museum and went to see the Imax film, "Fly me to the moon."
Having learned how to take a photograph we are now downloading and working on our pictures in 2simple photo.
