Year 2's Autumn Art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy on PhotoPeach

TUTPUP

Tutpup is a great way to learn spellings and your times tables. To find out more click here .

Reading at home

 Are you looking for a new book to read? Have you run out of space on your bookcase?

Have a look at this wonderful website with lots and lots of free e-books to read at home. Click on the books with a yellow 'e' and you can read or listen to the e-book and try to answer the questions when you finish. Have fun reading.

Oxford Owl Reading







At the start/end of some books (like the Biff and Chip books) there is guidance on how to help your child read and questions you could ask to check their understanding. There is also more advice on reading at home (http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/Question/Index/5 ) and ideas for reading books (http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/BookList )



Grown up advice

You will start to notice this logo on the blog and it is for your grown-up. The logo is there for when we want to give advice and help to your grown-up with the activity or link on the page.

Samuel Pepys

There is lots of information about Samuel Pepys on the BBC School website. Click on the link here Samuel Pepys .

Fire of London

Try out this cool Fire of London game. It will teach you some new facts about our new topic.

Click on the picture or visit www.fireoflondon.org.ukhttp://www.fireoflondon.org.uk/

A Child Like You

 Tomorrow a page will be sent home from the book ‘Children Just Like Me’ that we have been looking at in class as part of our A Child Like Me project.

            Next week we will be making our own page based on the format of this book. Please can you talk to your family about who is in your family, food, toys, clothes and home so you are ready to create your own page in class next week. We hope to produce a class book similar to ‘Children Just Like Me’.

            If you want to bring in pictures or photos from home to use as part of your page, that would be most welcome.

We look forward to finding out all about you.

Mr Prosser & Ms Vargo

Meet the teacher

There will be a chance to meet with Mr Prosser and Ms Vargo to discuss what will be happening in Year 2. The meeting will be on Wednesday 12th September at 3pm in the Year 2 classrooms. It is a chance for you find out what we will be learning about this year, class routines, Maths/RWI groups and a chance to ask questions.

A CHILD LIKE ME

This term our topic will be 'A Child Like Me'. We will be learning about our bodies and our lives. We will be looking at what is the same and what is different about us all. We will be learning about the lives of other children from around the wordl and we will be talking about what makes each one of us special.

This topic is based around a book by UNICEF called Children Just Like Me, which looks at the lives of children in different countries around the world. Each child tells the reader about their family, where they live, what they eat, what they like etc.

Welcome back

Welcome To Year 2

This Blog has been set up for the children in Class 2P & 2V to share what they have been learning in class. Mr Prosser and Ms Vargo will be adding links to websites that you can look at home with your parents.

When you are using this blog and other websites please remember to use the SMART rules for staying safe on the internet. If you have any questions then talk to your class teacher. 

Variation

Have a go at this game about Variation from BBC Schools website. Can you work out who stole the cheese? If you do, can you tell Mr Prosser.

We are learning about variation in our Science lessons and here are some fun websites to learn more.

National Geographic for Kids
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
You could try out the Animal Jam

Bristol Zoo

http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/

Learning with Dogs

Fancy making some Doggy Music? Click here to try out this cool program from the Dogs Trust

We are using this website in school to help us learn about Sound and Music in ICT lessons. We are learning how to make, record and listen to music.  If you explore the rest of the website you can learn how to look after a dog, use co-ordinates, give directions and play other fun games. Enjoy

Stoke Lodge Trip

We had a great time at Stoke Lodge on Tuesday.
In the morning we made our healthy pack lunch. We have been learning about healthy eating in topic so we knew how to make a healthy sandwich.

Next we had our picnic by a big tree at Stoke Lodge. After that we tried out Olympic sports like hurdling, high jump and relay races. Then it was time to come home becasue we could see a big dark cloud heading for us. We managed to make it back to school just as it started to rain, it was great timing.

Its not all about the winning!

There are lots of amazing stories from the Olympics and there are not all about winning. Derek Redmond has a great athlete had worked really to get to the Olympics. Derek got a lot of help from his coach, family and firends to prepare for the Olympics. He started running in the 400m final when he got an serious injury. He was determined to finish so he got up and kept on going. He couldn't do it by himself so his dad helped him across the line. He didn't win gold but everyone around the world watched his race and saw his bravery.

Healthy Eating

We are learning about what is in our food and why we need to eat.  Can you help your child keep a record of what they have eaten over one day. They will be coming home with a worksheet to fill in over the weekend and bring back to school next week for our topic lessons.


If you would like some ideas for some yummy meals, the BBC Goodfood website have great recipes for kids. Why not try some of these recipes out and let me Mr Prosser know how they tasted.

Maybe you have your own favourite recipe? Write it down and bring it in to school to share with the class.

Healthy Recipes