Last Thursday, some of Year Two attended Board Games club and we all had lots of fun. We spoke about the importance of turn taking, working as a team and listening to one another. The children enjoyed playing Guess Who, Scrabble, Dinkee and Dobble. We will be looking at some of these games again next week with a few new board games too!
The children in Year Two are currently learning about the column method in our ‘Addition and Subtraction’ topic. The children have enjoyed using Base 10 to work out the calculations using the column method. We have been extremely impressed with how hard they are working! We have even looked at addition crossing a 10 and subtraction crossing a 10 and they have completely took it in their stride. Well done Year Two.
Last week, the children in Year Two had lots of fun making sandwiches. First of all, we discussed the importance of health and safety and thought about how important it was to wash hands before we started. Next, the children decided on the type of bread they wanted to use – either baguettes, wraps or pitta breads. Then, they filled the bread with lots of different fillings. We discussed the bridge and claw grip when using a knife to keep ourselves safe when cooking. The children thoroughly enjoyed eating their sandwiches!
Year 2 have been learning about Judaism in RE lessons. They understand what happens during Shabbat, that this is a happy time for Jewish people, a day free from work where they think about God and spend time together with family. During Shabbat, a special prayer of blessing is said and the family eat a piece of challah bread. As part of our lessons this week, the children tasted challah bread. They all said it was delicious! The children are going to write to the bakery, who kindly made the challah bread for us, to say thank you.
The Year Two children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Great Fire of Gateshead and Newcastle as part of their history topic. They were excited to visit the Discovery Museum, where they were able to go back in time and recall events which took place during 1854. They especially enjoyed dressing up as children of that time period and reenacting the events that took place that day by performing in a puppet show.
The children have been learning about source analysis in History lessons. We have been thinking about the events of the Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead. By looking at sources, the children have been gathering facts and making inferences.
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