We have had a lovely first week in Year 2 beginning our learning journey together. It was lovely to see so many smiley faces and such enthusiasm on Tuesday morning!

We hooked with the story ‘Silly Billy’ which is about a little boy called Billy who worries about lots of things. Luckily, when Billy shared his worries with his Grandma, she had just the things to help him! Grandma gave Billy some special worry dolls which helped to take his worries away. We enjoyed making our own worry dolls to keep in our classroom. We discussed what we can do if we have a worry at home or at school and who we could tell. We all remembered Chewy, our worry monster, who lives in our classroom.

We also enjoyed re-reading a familiar story called ‘The Colour Monster’. After recapping different emotions, we thought about those that are positive emotions such as: happy, excited and loved and those that are not including: sad, angry and scared. We thought about how we were feeling and created a monster using a collage.

As the emotions are represented as different colours in the story, we enjoyed doing some colour mixing using the water colour paints. We used the paints to make different shades.