Mrs Kearns' Class 2019 -2020

This week, Year 2 have been learning all about New York.

We have:

*used map skills to locate the UK and the USA, New York State, and the 5 boroughs of New York City.

*used watercolour paints to create beautiful pictures of New York State’s National bird, the eastern bluebird.

*learned…

We have been finding out all about the artist, L.S. Lowry.  We were so inspired by his work that we created our own artwork, showing the industrial factories, terraced houses, and match stick people that Lowry enjoyed drawing and painting.

After we received our letter from the Cornerstones Mayor, asking us for help, we developed plans for some new features in the area that would ensure there were plenty of places for families and children to enjoy.

Take a look at our model village!

We have more recycling facilities, a…

Thinking of moving house? Take a look at our amazing writing...!

As part of our ‘Street Detectives’ topic, we have written some adverts to try and sell houses in the area.

Take a look at our fabulous ‘Street Detectives’ topic homework.  

Well done everyone for working so hard!  Your creations are wonderful!

As part of our ‘Street Detectives’ topic, during Literacy, we have read ‘Claude in the City’.  

In the story, Claude and his friend, Sir Bobblysock, visit an art gallery in the city, where they witness a sly, suspicious lady commit an atrocious crime!  

Take a look at our WANTED posters…

We worked collaboratively in Maths to reason about fractions. We identified halves, and explained why some representations didn’t show halves.  

During Literacy, we created WANTED posters for a mischievous, suspicious criminal who stole a sculpture from the art gallery in our class book, ‘Claude in the City’.

We all worked very hard to include our steps to success, which included; RAG words, idiom and word of the week, conjunctions,…

This morning, we worked incredibly hard on our reading skills.  We worked collaboratively to apply our phonics knowledge to match the captions to the pictures, and also used our highlighters to find evidence in the text to help us answer questions.

This afternoon, we used the laptops to learn some programming skills.  We programmed our sprites to travel forwards, backwards, left and right, in order to complete different tasks.  We used the website ‘j2code’, and had lots of fun!

This week, we have been street detectives! We visited the village to investigate how different buildings have changed over time, thought about what works well in Great Ayton, and what we think the village needs.

We also interviewed Mr Thompson to find out what Roseberry School was like in…

This morning, the Green Team gathered together in assembly to think about what we could do to help the community.

Here are some of our fabulous ideas:

Pick up litter

Cake sale for charity

Make signs and posters about picking up dog mess 

Raise money for homeless people 

Help the…