Following the very exciting visitor we had this morning that Luke captured on camera, we discovered she had left us more evidence of her visit.
This led to some very exciting discussion and sentence work as to exactly where she had come from and why she had decided to visit Green Top…one excellent suggestion was that she had noticed how many castles there were in the KS1 corridor classrooms and she was looking for a new place to live!
I wonder if she will be back after her egg has hatched.
What an amazing Hook Week we have had in year 2 this week. Despite the new lockdown keeping most of us at home, the children in class and those who joined us online have blown us away with their enthusiasm and hard work.
We are all really looking forward to beginning our first case study in expedition and starting work our new English text next week.
Just a reminder about the challenge I set year 2 during afternoon check out today to get us excited about our new money maths unit which also begins next week.
If you are holding one of every British coin in your hand, how much money would you have?
There are 50 HoWL points up for grabs for everyone who has the correct answer in morning hangout on Monday…Good luck!
Have a great weekend everyone!
We thought you might enjoy seeing some of Crew Rodgers’ dragon eye sketches. These are the first stage of our project. Tomorrow we will use water-colours to paint another rendition of our designs before creating them in clay next week as part of a corridor dragon display.
‘Watch’ this space…
Everyone was super excited to enter the walls of Castle Crew Rodgers this morning. What a thrill to have our very own drawbridge, dungeon, Knight and Ye Olde Reading Corner to immerse us in our new expedition. Here are some photographs of our learning environment.
We can’t wait to get started!
We had a sneaky visitor on Friday who we discovered when Amelia-Rose opened her lunchbox! Apparently she wanted to see how we learn at Green Top.
Safe to say she was very impressed with us all!
An amazing week of learning in Crew Rodgers. Here are our winners…
Well done to Cohen, Victoria and Andra for our Be Kind, Get Smart and Work Hard awards respectively. Cohen also won our HoWLs points award!
A great week for Andra who also won our Out of this World award.
Great job superstars!
We are nearing the end of this term’s fantastic expedition, ‘How have the changes in transport made our journeys safer?’. As part of our 3rd case study – design and technology – the children have designed vehicles and today have begun to follow their designs to make box models of them. We had a fantastic afternoon using d and t skills such as using tools to cut and sticking objects together to create our models and paint them. Next week we will add the finishing touches.
A huge congratulations to Elise for winning our Out of this World certificate this week.
Awesome job guys. I can’t wait to see the finished vehicles.
I wonder…..can you think of any modifications to your vehicle that would make it safer?
Look at our awesome winners from this week in Crew Rodgers.
Our winners row includes Scarlett, Marcus, Elliott and Cohen for most HoWL points, Get Smart, Work Hard and Be Kind respectively, and Cohen, Elliott, Scarlett, Jersey, Cody, Charlie and Luna for achieving with silver or bronze in our Reading challenge.
Congratulations to Lilly, Aoife and Luna for winning Learning Legend postcards.
Amazing work guys!
Crew Rodgers managed to fit in some last minute reading practise this afternoon during Reading Crew before beginning their Phonics check tests tomorrow. All of the children in year 2 have worked so hard to learn their sounds and we wish them the very best of luck.
Big congratulations go to Lilly as today’s learning legend for her magnificent design plan for her box model vehicle. Well done Lilly.
Congratulations to our certificate winners this week.
Jersey, Aoife, and Victoria celebrated being the first recipients of our Be Kind, Work Hard and Get Smart awards, which we will be presenting each week to children who have shown that they can consistently follow our HoWLs in these areas.
Scarlett’s award was for collecting the most HoWL points this week with a massive score of 87!
Toby, Sofia, Andra, Macey and Frankie joined our ‘Winners Row’ by passing the 30 books mark and gaining their bronze reading challenge certificates.
Last but not least Macey was the winner of today’s Learning Legend postcard by being a Can do Colin – using beautiful manners all day long and producing some very good independent writing.
Awesome job guys. I am SO proud of you all!
