Year 2 Star Writers

Well done to Alex and Ollie; our amazing Star Writers this week!

The boys wrote a newspaper report about the recent mysterious events in Year 2. The both proved they can write in columns, used the 5 'w's in their lead paragraph and even included eyewitnesses statements from that fateful day! 

Keep up the hard work boys, Miss Estall and Miss Rollin are extremely proud of you! 

KS1 Maths Challenge

Here is this weeks maths challenge: 

Ian Whybrow visit - Year 2

The Year 2 children were lucky enough to have a visit from the famous author Ian Whybrow who has written many children's books such as: Harry and the Bucket Full of Dinosaurs and The Tickle Book. 

The children had the pleasure of hearing the story 'Harry and the Dinosaurs go to School' read by Ian himself. 

They were then able to ask Ian many questions about being an author. Ian gave the children advice on how to write their own book, how to choose the characters, setting and plot. He also opened the children's eyes to the team behind writing a story; you need an editor, an illustrator and a publisher.  He showed the children his draft book, with all the edited text, pictures and notes from his team members. The children got to see the whole journey of a book, from the first edit to the final printed edition.

"I really enjoyed learning about how to become an author, I've been writing lots of stories in class this week so I could be an author!" Roxy

"I think I would like to try writing a book now, I've got loads of ideas!" Laicey 

Ian Whybrow visit - Year 1

Today, Year 1 were lucky enough to have a visit from the well known author, Jon Whybrow. The children were very excited about this, as quite a few of the children have his books at home.

He read through two of his stories and the children joined in with actions, movements and sounds.

The final story he read was, 'Harry and the Robots'. Our very own Harry from Pine Class was chosen to act out the part of the broken robot.

                         

After hearing the story of 'Harry and the Robots', the children wanted to make their own robots. Take a look at their great efforts below!

Paton: 'My robot is going to make me feel better if I ever get ill.'

Freddie: I want everyone to see my robot. It is going to live with me next to my bed- just like nan in the story!'

Amazing Architects

Our structures have come along nicely in Amazing Architects this week. When we first opened the boxes we were astounded at the sheer amount of pieces and just how tiny they were! But, we did not let this put us off; we made a plan! First, we sorted all of the pieces so they were easy to find when required. Then, we slowly followed the instructions to begin building the Big Ben and Berlin city.

 

Although it took great care and patience, we have made good progress and we are on our way to completing some of the Architecture series.

 

 

We rotated on the Architecture series to avoid over crowding. During this rotation the children worked on their personal building skills, it is definitely developing week by week as the creative juice flows!

 

Jack and Levan made their own fair ground Ferris wheel whilst Gavin worked on his cage creation!

Cherry Celebrate National Handwriting Day!

Did you know that today is National Handwriting Day? Well, in Cherry class we certainly do!

 

Therefore, we wanted to embrace our handwriting and show off what we can do! Whilst celebrating our fabulous handwriting we also celebrated how fabulous we all are as individuals. We did this by writing down Things I love about me (in our best handwriting of course).

 

The children thoroughly enjoyed having a moment of reflection to think about everything they are proud of and what makes them special. We continuously work on our targets and seek ways to better ourselves but today reminded the children that we also need to highlight our strengths and what we already do well.

Whether it be amazing manners, maths ability, lovely luscious locks, beaming smiles or football skills, the children were able to find ample strengths about themselves.

 

I must agree with each and every one of the statements written today, we truly do have wonderful children in Cherry class!

 

 

Year 2 Star Writers

Summer and Kiera are our Star Writers this week! They have successfully written a Newspaper report about the mysterious events in Year 2 recently.

 

The girls can now use the features of a newspaper report which include, a headline, by-line, body, and sources.! They made sure their headlines were short and snappy to entice readers, and also included a final plea to encourage readers to come forward with information in the hope the mystery could be solved.

 

Here is what the girls had to say about their writing:  

 

"It was fun writing a newspaper! I said, so please let Cherry know if you have any more information, then hopefully someone will come and tell us if they saw anything." Summer Baker.

 

"It was cool writing in columns like they do in a real newspaper!" Kiera Taylor

 

 

 

KS1 Maths Challenge

Here is this weeks maths challenge: 

Target Smashing In Cherry!

In Cherry class we all have a growth mind-set. We know that if we want to get better we need to make mistakes, we need to identify weaknesses as well as strengths and we know that challenge is a good thing. We reach for the stars and know that we can all achieve great things if we put the work in...

 

That is why we set ourselves targets and work relentlessly to meet them. Last term we chose our Autumn target and displayed them in the class so that we could support eachother in achieving them. This week, we reviewed our targets ready for the new term. We reflected on our developments and assessed whether or not we can move on to a new target. It was great to see that all of the children were able to prove they had met at least one of  their targets (if not both) and have now thought of their next!

 

 

Take a look at some of our success stories!

 

The children were asked to provide evidence towards their target:

Hollie wanted to learn to divide and proved she is now able to answer a number of division calculations independently.

Tyler breezed through his target, he needed to count in tens. He did this all the way up to 260 with ease.

Dorrie's target was to ensure her finger spaces were a reasonable size and to count in threes. She can now do both.

Paris has been working on spelling red words and counting in threes, once again she managed both!

 

Kara demonstrated that she can now confidently count in steps of 5 as well as starting to join her letters.

George's target was to get to rock stars 5 by Christmas. He has proven he has smashed his target by completing the sheet in under 4 minutes!

Bobby can now count in steps of 2 beyond 14 and is joining his letters after a week of voluntary continuous practise as he knew target day was looming.

Amandeep chose to work on her 9s; amazingly she can now count in steps of 9 after working on her target in her independent time!

 

 

 

CAUTION! CRIME SCENES IN YEAR 2!

All I can say is Drama, Drama, Drama in Year 2 this week! First, we had a Mystery trunk left in our sandpit and now there's been another series of events unfolding!

 

Thursday, after lunch, the children came back to class to find a lot of panicked and confused teachers.

In both Cherry and Cedar, the construction areas had been cornered off due to the theft of the construction materials! The children couldn't believe their eyes!

We are now in the process of finding out who has taken the construction and for what reason. We have found some clues, including footprints, lipstick and some possible witnesses but we are not yet 100%. The children have begun writing Newspaper reports in the hope more people will come forward with intelligence on the events.

 

If anybody has, or knows someone with any information regarding this mystery then please inform the Year 2 Teachers as soon as possible...Fingers crossed!

 

 

 

Year 2 Star Writers

Nina and Alice are our excellent Star Writers this week!

The girls really impressed when using different sentence types including, statements, exclamations and questions. First, we reflected on the holidays and wrote exclamations to describe our Christmas.

 Here are some of the girls exclamations:

"What a gorgeous Christmas tree it was!" Alice.

"How disgusting the brussel sprouts tasted!" Nina 

 

Next, we cast our minds forward and wrote our New Years Resolutions, thinking about what we would like to achieve this year. Lastly we wrote questions about what we want to find out in 2017. Both of the girls used the correct punctuation in addition to working on their presentation when writing their sentences which is why they are worthy Star Writers. 

 

I especially loved the New Years Resolutions which included: getting ready for School themselves, helping Mum at home, learn to swim and to join their letters by the end of Year 2.  

 

"My new years resolution is to get to School a bit earlier so I can have even more learning time to make my brain grow!" Nina

 

What a great resolution that is Nina! I can't wait to help your brain grow even more!

 

 

 

 

Year 2's Mysterious Chest...

The children in Year 2 found a mysterious treasure chest in the sand pit this week. The children, as well as the teachers were astounded, yet baffled as to where it had come from. Inside the chest they discovered many interesting objects, such as: a compass, telescope, a picture of a man, a Spanish Flag, an American flag, a sailors hat, a boat, a mango, an avocado and even a picture of Santa!

What could all this mean? 

Accompanying the items inside the chest was a letter addressed to the Year 2 children from Mrs Nicholls. In the letter Mrs Nicholls explains that she found the trunk with the objects inside but she has no idea what they mean! Mrs Nicholls has asked the children in Year 2 to use their investigating skills to find information about the objects and what pieces them together. Mrs Nicholls has given the children the whole half term to figure out what each item is and why they are in the trunk to then report back to her.

The children are VERY excited and cant wait to get cracking on the clues!

"Oh my god it's treasure in the sandpit!" exclaimed Kara.

"Why is there an avocado?" questioned John.

Today, the children haven't stopped talking about the chest and their theories about it. Here are some of the current ideas the children have:

• Santa has been abducted by pirates and taken to Spain.
• Maybe there are another 3 chests to be found by us.
• The man in the picture could be related to Mrs Nicholls!
• Pirates have lost it and we need to search for a treasure map to find out what the keys are for.
• The ship sank and these are the clues about what happened. 

Who knows? Let's wait and see... 

Crazy Cross Stitch

Here is the breakdown for Crazy Cross Stitch classes at University of Broadford.

We are looking forward to learning a new skill, designing patterns and getting creative!

Year 1 Star Writers

Year 1 Star Writers

Congratulations Gabriela and Nela on their fantastic writing this week. The children were set the task of writing their own version on 'We're going on a bear hunt'. Gabriela and Nela both included adjectives in their writing, as well as using the phonics knowledge to sound out their writing.

Well done on a fantastic piece of writing, keep up the great work!

Year 1 Maths- Fractions

Fractions

This week in maths, we will be looking at fractions.

We will begin by looking at shapes and objects and then move on to quantities.

We will focus on finding a half, then finding a quarter.

Below are some links your child could use to support with their home learning.


http://resources.oswego.org/games/fractionflags/fractionflags.html

http://www.counton.org/games/map-fractions/falling/

Year 1 Learning Challenge

Year 1 Learning Challenge

This terms topic is 'Bears'. Below is this half terms learning challenge.

Below is the Learning Challenge for this term. As always, we are excited to celebrate the completed work, so please encourage your child to bring in the work they do. We will celebrate this with a certificate in our E for Excellence assembly.  

The 'Joys' of Christmas!

The 'Joys' of Christmas

The children were very lucky to end the autumn term with a visit from two of our Year 1 parents, Mr and Mrs Joy.

They very kindly offered to bring in a range of brass instruments from the Salvation Army. The children were taught a bit about each instrument and the talented Mr Joy also played many of them for the children.

Mr and Mrs Joy also taught the children how to play a note on a range of the instruments- which turned out to be harder than it looked!

A BIG thank you to Mr and Mrs joy for offering their time and talent. It was a lovely experience for the children who all enjoyed the afternoon!

Comfy Cushion Club

Comfy Cushion Club

What a fantastic start to the University of Broadford! We began by looking at lots of example of cushions to give us ideas and help inspire us. We then began to draw some of our ideas and play around with different designs- and already this years Cushion Club have shown themselves to be a creative bunch!

Below is an overview of the course. Look out for photos and updates on the blog as we go through the weeks.!

 

Astonishing Acrylic Painting

What a fantastic start to the University of Broadford! The children in Astonishing Acrylic Painting were able to get straight into it by testing the different techniques and styles when using Acrylic paint. Next week we will look in more detail at the artist Joan Miro. 

Year 2 Star Writers

Well done to Emily Russell and Summer Wingrove for being our first Star Writers of 2017! Both of the girls have proved they are reflective learners by being able to proof read their work and edit any errors made. This is fundamental skill when becoming a successful writer and one we work on continually. Keep it up girls!

 

 

Amazing Architects!

We had a fabulous first session in our Amazing Architects course on Friday. The children, varying from Years 2-6, came bouncing into Cherry class with huge smiles, eager to get building!

 

We spoke about what an architect does and the skills this career choice would require. We then had a go at using different construction materials to build objects. Lastly, we challenged ourselves by seeing who could build the tallest tower in five minutes. It was great fun and we can't wait to get started on the Lego Architecture series.

See below our course overview which the children received on Friday. This gives an outline of what the Amazing Architects course is and what we will be doing over the coming weeks...

Ruben's Australian Parcel

A big thank you to Ruben who brought in an exciting Australian parcel he had received from his Auntie at the end of term - a perfect way to finish our topic 'Australia'. Ruben is lucky enough to have an Auntie who lives in Australia. Ruben told Cedar all about the items inside the package which included many pictures of Australia, some books and a calendar. 

"The pencils are covered with aboriginal art. They have used the tradition colours that the aboriginal people used." Ruben 

The children of Cedar couldn't believe the parcel had taken 10 days to arrive and that it would have flown by aeroplane! 

KS1 Maths Challenge

Happy New Year and Welcome Back Mathematicians! 

Below is the KS1 Maths Challenge: 

Year 2 Learning Challenge

Welcome back! We hope you have had a fantastic Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Below is the Learning Challenge for this term. As always, we are excited to celebrate the completed work. We have lots of certificates waiting to be given out!