English
22.3.23 Creating our own story through props and role play. We orally rehearsed sentences using exciting vocabulary, conjunctions and openers! 🐺😊 📚🧌
21.03.23 Using direct speech 😀 👄 🎤 💬 📣 📢 🗯️
13.03.13 Today we orally rehearsed “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” using a variety of props and role play. Then we all wrote this classic fairy tale independently. It was so much fun! ✨😀👍🌊 💚🌳 🐐✨
06.03.23 Writing a variety of questions 💭❓❔🙋♀️🙋♂️
01.03.23 World Book Day 🌍 📚
28.02.23 Creating and orally rehearsing a story map
27.02.23 Using adverbs through oracy and literary 🎭
23.02.23 Orally rehearsing a story before writing a story 🧚♀️ 🔑 🏡 🐉
21.02.23 Character descriptions through oracy and literacy 🎭
20.02.23 Writing Character descriptions ✍️
National Story Telling Week 28th January-5th February 2023
3.2.23 Big Writing Hook: A leakage in the corridor! ❗️🚨 ⚠️
27.01.23 Big Write Time 🕰️ Writing letters to Mr Cross
23.01.23 Orally rehearsing instructions
16.01.23 Reading Assembly: Reading in an unusual place winners🤩
20.01.23 Practical lesson: Orally rehearsing instructions and writing instructions
13.1.22 Big Writing: Writing Pirate stories 🏴☠️
11.1.23 Using imperative verbs
09.01.23 Big Write - To write a report
Mission One - Planning a day out!
Mission One - Planning a day out!
Agent Penny has set us on an important mission to help Kamran and his daughter Avani. Kamran and Avani live in America and are coming to England but they have never been before. Our mission is to give them some ideas of where to visit once they arrive! We will do this through writing detailed descriptions of attractions and letters.
Mission One - useful resources
22.12.22 Letters to Santa!
30.11.22 Today we created a rat maze for Rooney and wrote descriptions in our books
22.11.22 We have been using adjectives to describe a character
31.10.22 Planning and writing a recount ✏️
18.10.22 Guided Reading! 👩🏫🤓📖📕📚🤓🧑🏫
Paula the Vet by Julia Donaldson
We often use role play, drama and small group discussions to deepen our understanding of books. Today we dressed up as a vet in order to empathise with the main character of the book- Paula.
As a result the children were able to answer a variety of comprehension questions because they were dressed up, “in role” and were able to empathise with the characters emotions.
17.10.22 Special Medieval workshop! 👸🏼✨ 🏰💚🐉💚✨ 🏰 🤴
The theme was Castles, Knights and Princesses. We used drama, dance and singing as we went on a thrilling adventure to rescue the Sword in the Stone!
12.10.22 Using conjunctions
Our core text this term is “Katie in London” by James Mayhew
10.10.22 Big Writing! Today we wrote a story about Florence Nightingale in the war. 📝💖 🚑 🏥💖👩⚕️
7.10.22 Today we have been identifying and using verbs. We played “Simon Says” using a variety of actions. 🤩😀👏
30.9.22 Big write ✏️
28.9.22 Today we wrote letters to Katie 📮
26.9.22 Independent Write ✏️
16.9.22 Today, we sequenced events from a story.
15.9.22 We re-enacted Katie in London using props
Using improvisation to act out a scene from our core text... 🎭🤩
14.9.22 We built Big Ben and wrote sentences.
12.9.22 Cold task Hook: A set of keys appeared in the playground as Year 2 came into school this morning! 😀🔐 🔑
Cold task activity:
During our English lesson we wrote a story introduction about the keys we found in the playground independently.
13.9.22 Acting out a story: Katie in London 🎭🇬🇧
What happens at the end of the story?
Today Year 2 used role play to make predictions about how “Katie in London” ends. We worked in small mixed ability groups and performed our predictions to the whole class.
13.9.22 Katie in London performances! 🎭🫶😊🇬🇧
