To consolidate our recent Maths learning all about position and direction, we used the Beebot programme on the Ipads in our computing lesson today. We used the forwards, backwards, left and right buttons to move the Beebot to different places.

We decided to find out the most popular ice cream flavour in Year 2. First of all, we needed to collect our data. After deciding on some possible flavours, we asked each other which their favourite is. We recorded our findings in the form of a tally chart, remembering the golden rule of putting a diagonal line through for number five.

After collecting the data, we then used it to create a bar chart. Using this, we were able to identify the most popular and least popular ice cream flavours.

We enjoyed our computing lessons this half term where we used the program J2Data. We created our own pictograms and bar charts after collecting the data and recording it in the form of a tally chart.

Some of us were very excited to share the results from the finger print challenge we completed at home.

We used pencil, ink, cocoa powder, flour and other things to investigate our finger prints and those of our family members. We discovered that everybody’s finger prints are different.

How fascinating!

Lots of us were very excited this morning when we arrived at school with a silly hairstyle in support of Comic Relief. We have some very creative children and parents in Year 2!

We were very excited to come to school today dressed as one of the characters from Narnia! How fantastic we looked!

Thank you to parents for making such a brilliant effort!

To conclude our ‘Explorers’ topic and our learning about Captain Cook and his three voyages around the world, we enjoyed our Spring art project.

We know that Captain Cook’s journey to Tahiti wasn’t an easy one as, at times, the weather made it very dangerous. After looking at some photographs of calm and stormy seas, we thought carefully about the difference in colours.

We worked collaboratively with our partner, just like Team Ant, and created some fantastic colour wraps using a variety of different materials. Some of us used colours to reflect the calmer days of his journey across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans whereas some of us decided to use colours to represent the more dangerous and stormy days.

We then did some colour mixing to make different shades of blue, green and grey before painting our own calm or stormy sea.

After this, we enjoyed carefully drawing the Endeavour (Captain Cook’s ship) using pencils and graphite. We noticed lots of the details and tried hard to include these in our own observational drawing.

We also did some observational drawings of different shells.

Finally, we worked collaboratively in small groups to create our own tie-dye. For this, we used different shades of blue and green dye to reflect the colours of the oceans.

How fantastic our art work is!

Our new Science topic is all about…MATERIALS!

We noticed lots of different materials around us in our classroom. After going on a material hunt, we thought about why materials are used for certain objects and the different properties that they have. We agreed that wood wouldn’t be a suitable material for a window as it is not transparent but would be suitable for a table as it is strong and sturdy.

We were very excited to check our mini-beast hotels this morning, especially when we discovered they did in fact have some guests inside!

Unfortunately, some of them moved a lot faster than Mrs Brown so we were unable to take a photo but here are some of the mini-beasts we did manage to capture on camera…