Year 2 have been busy bees looking at how we can use maths resources to help us understand repeated addition. We used Numicon as well as cubes to think about making equal groups such as 3 groups of 6 and then what we need to do to find the total. This is getting us ready…
Christmas came early to Year 2 Buttercups this afternoon as our enrichment activity saw us collaborate and use our imagining BLP muscle. We were charged with creating paper chains to decorate the classroom as we get ready for Christmas! We had to decide on colours and themes for our chains and then collaborate to make…
This week, Year 2 have been searching in the Year 1 garden for mini-beasts as part of our Living Things Science topic. We talked about how microhabitats are smaller habitats such as under a log or in the mud. It has been very wet and we had high hopes of finding MANY mini-beasts. We found…
Today, as well as Children in Need, Year 2 spent time looking at the Festival of Lights, Diwali. We watched a shadow puppet telling of the story of Rama and Sita, before colouring Rangoli patterns. This required us to use our BLP muscles of resilience and managing our distractions as the patterns were quite intricate….
Year 2 Buttercups have had a new arrival- say hello to Percy and Penelope! They arrived today although Mrs Taylor received them at her house on Monday morning. They have come to join in our learning for our new Theme of Ice and we have already learned lots- including how to write a letter and…
Hello to all of our Brilliant Buttercups and Super Sunflowers that are learning from home at the moment. We miss you, but hope you and your families are ok. This is your English learning for the week, it is linked to our new Theme- I wonder if you can guess what it is! We welcomed…
Year 2 have been learning about the Windrush Generation who came to Britain from the Caribbean aboard an enormous boat in 1948. We have been looking at the wonderful culture that people brought with them such as the music and food of the Caribbean. Our classes read ‘Coming to England’ by Floella Benjamin as she…
Good morning Year 2. Thank you to those of you who have shared your learning with us, we are pleased to see how hard you are working whilst at home. Remember, you can use the following email addresses to share learning or ask us any questions regarding the tasks: buttercup@perryfields-pri.sandwell.sch.uk sunflower@perryfields-pri.sandwell.sch.uk We just wanted to…
Hello to all our Brilliant Buttercups and Super Sunflowers! You have been working incredibly hard with your phonics lessons with either Mrs Zaib, Miss Wootton, Mrs Taylor or Mrs Houghton and we know you would like to continue that learning whilst you are at home. We have attached sound mats which have the digraphs, trigraphs…
Hello Brilliant Buttercups and Super Sunflowers, We have added new email addresses for you to share your home learning with us which will make it easier for your work to reach your teacher. Please do send us your hard work and we will make sure to send you a reply once we have read it….