Green Team, Fruit Tree Planting, 10.2.19
Due to a kind donation the Green Team were able to plant some fruit trees this week. We hope to be enjoying the fruit from them in years to come.
Year 2 have been making balloon powered cars. We have learned a lot from all our failed attempts which means our brains have grown heaps. We had to figure out how to attach the wheels; learned how to get them to turn using a mechanism and over come the problem of also blowing up the balloon.
We look forward to seeing you at our race tomorrow.
Year Two have been working on improving a boring sentence using adjectives and adverbs.
How could you improve this sentence?
The frog jumped.
In P.E we have been learning to move like animals and making sure we put weight on our hands to build up the muscles in our arms.
Today we got to travel like an animal along the equipment.
How does your body feel after exercising?
We care about our spellings. Getting them right helps us to communicate. Have a look at some of the ways we can show that we are taking pride in our spellings. What can you do to improve your spellings?
We had great fun today as we bounced around today. We also showed some great risk taking as we tackled the death slide and jumped off a platform on to an air bag.
It was wonderful to see the children supporting and encouraging each other. They had wonderful manners and did Hazeldown proud. iBounce said we were wonderful and asked if we could come back! Of course we want to. It was brilliant.
How did your body change after exercising?
What risks did you take today?
Did you bounce like any animals?
Year Two have started applying what they learned from melting their coloured ice cubes (see previous post) . They have been using view finders to paint a section of a picture. They had to look closely at the shades, shapes and colours. Some children started exploring with water colours to make designs on paper which they can cut out or use to back there work.
Year Two have been enjoying the story George’s Marvellous Medicine. We took inspiration from George’s recipe and created our own concoctions. What would you include in yours?
Year Two have been woking on creating different balances in P.E and today we got to try them out on the equipment. How many 2 point balances can you create?
Today Year Two made predictions about what would happen when ice that was different colour would melted. What do you think will happen?
We will be using what we learn to help us with our up coming art work.
In Year Two, we are getting to grips with what we are going to write in our message in a bottle. We want to include why we became stranded.
Have a look at the description of the storm that cause the unlucky sailor to become washed up on a deserted island.
What a super effort! Which bits can you magpie for your description?
Yesterday Year 2 started using colourful semantics to up level some of their sentences.
Can you spot an adverb of time or an exciting verb?
Year 2 have been looking at measuring objects and comparing their lengths. We had to look at which was bigger 1cm or 1m and why.
We had lots of interesting conversations about the accuracy of our measuring when we measured then ordered ourselves.
Year 2 have been looking at the value of each digit in a number. Today we built on what we already know and we have to compare different numbers and sorted them from smallest to largest.
Which is the largest 3 tens and 1 one, 29, 2 tens and 14 ones or 20+10? Maybe you can build them first to help you fin out? 
| Year 2 Home Learning – Friday 13th September
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| Home Learning Menu
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may just complete the fifteen-point activity or may choose to do one ten and a five-point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:
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Today the children in Year Two started making their very own sea creature models. They had researched them, spend time designing them and finally it was time to get hands on. What techniques did you use? Did you have to do any carving or joining?
Thank you to everyone who joined the ‘Teignmouth Beach Clean’ group. It was great to see so many friendly faces on a warm and breezy Sunday.
Thanks to the Mayor, children got to enjoy a free ice-cream at the end!
More pictures of the morning can be found on the Teignmouth Beach Clean Facebook page.
This week, year 1 and 2 have been helping to get the pond ready for its liner. This mostly involved moving stones out the was to prevent it from being punctured and getting it ready for levelling by the Year 6 children.
Years 1 and 2 have been doing lots of work on plants. They have been learning how to draw them in the style of Georgia O’keeffe. They have learnt language used to describe them and then used this to help them identify different plants. They even used their sorting skills to classify different leaves.
Year 1 Spelling Focus: ‘oy’ sound
Handed out on Monday 24th May;
Tested on Monday 1st July
toys
destroy
cowboy
so
the
Note: Spellodrome is updated with the new spellings every Monday and is available to use to practise your spellings.
Spellings 1-3 are this weeks Phonics Focus. 4-5 are from the Year 1 High -Frequency word list.
Some of the Green Team have been very keen to participate in a beach clean and they would love you too come along too.
We hope to see you there.
After stage one of the pond completed at the weekend, some of the green team members got back in contact with an expert who has been helping us plan the pond.
Before they called, they took the time to plan what they wanted to say. They totally blew me away with their adult approach and manner on the phone. I’m incredibly proud. Sadly, it was an answering machine but we hope to hear back soon.
An enormous thank you to everyone who came along to help with the construction of the pond on Saturday. We couldn’t have done it with out you. Here are some photos of the amazing team. One of our old pupils, whose now at secondary school, also came back to lend us a hand.
One of the Green Team members have contacted our expert ‘The Pond Man’ and we hope to update you about the next stage soon.
1.bone
2.phone
3.stone
4.there
5.door
Spellings 1-3 are this weeks Phonics Focus. 4-5 are from the Year 1 High -Frequency word list.
Green Team met today to map out the area for the new pond. Everyone is eagerly awaiting the digger on Saturday 15th June. We hope to see you there on between 9 and 12 too, if you are able to lend a hand.
Written by Green Team Members.
Today, the Green Team were weeding in the vegetable patch and pulled up a reddish. It isn’t fully grown but it is still edible. It can grow to the size of a gold ball as it turns into a sphere shape.
We also looked in on how are pizza patch is growing and were happy the tomatoes are getting nice and tall.
This afternoon Year 2 were provided with coordinates on a map and they had to work in teams to collect hidden letters from around the school. The aim was to be the most accurate, fastest and collaborate. Well done to those teams who completed it but especially to our teams from Palm Class who came first and second place and a team from Apple who came third. What skills did you use to find the hidden letters.
One of the reasons we love where we live is because of the beautiful landscapes we have.
Year 2 spent sometime experimenting with using water colours. Later, they sketched the view from the playground and used this back in the classroom to paint the landscape using water colour paints. What techniques did you use in your painting? What did you learn about painting the sky?
Year 2 Spellings
Focus: long o sound, ‘o’ on its own
Handed out on Monday 13th May; Tested on Monday 20th May
- most
- both
- only
- hotel
- ago
- total
- oval
- who
- once
- are
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year One worked together yesterday using arial photographs of the school to find out where they where. They looked at key features such as buildings, roads and car parks to help them. They then had a go at creating their own map. Can you remember what a key is?
This afternoon, Year Two went outside to practise giving each other directions using the compasses. Can you remember which way the needle always points? What was opposite East?
Year 2 Spellings
Focus: words ending in ‘e’ drop the ‘e’ and add ‘y’
Handed out on Tuesday 7th May; Tested on Monday 13th May
1. shiny
2. scary
3. smoky
4. bony
5. stony
6. shaky
7. slimy
8. hold
9. water
10. sure
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year 2 Spellings
Focus: -tion
Handed out on Monday 29th April; Tested on Tuesday 7th May
1. fiction
2. station
3. education
4. direction
5. competition
6. section
7. fraction
8. pretty
9. prove
10. improve
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year 2 Spellings
Focus: ‘l’ spelt ‘el’ at the end of a word, after m, n, r, v, w
Remember: Most Nuns Run Very Well
Handed out on Monday 25th March; Tested on Monday 1st April
- travel
- camel
- squirrel
- tunnel
- towel
- swivel
- quarrel
- many
- money
- move
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year One put their water squirts to the test today. We all came up with a set of rules and then the competition began to see whose would squirt the furthest.
Year 2 Spellings
Focus: ‘igh’ sound spelt ‘y’ at the end of a word
Handed out on Monday 25th February; Tested on Monday 4th March
- my
- by
- buy
- July
- dry
- cry
- reply
- friend
- come
- some
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year 2 Spellings
Focus: gn and kn
Handed out on Monday 4th February; Tested on Monday 11th February
- know
- knew
- knight
- knife
- gnat
- gnaw
- gnome
- cloth
- clothes
- pulled
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Focus: drop the e and add –ing/-ed
Handed out on Monday 28th January; Tested on Monday 4th February
- write
- writing
- dance
- danced
- dancing
- loved
- loving
- every
- everybody
- even
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year 2 Spellings
Focus: just add –ing/-ed or double the last letter
Handed out on Monday 21st January; Tested on Monday 28th January
1. walking
2. walked
3. hopping
4. hopped
5. patting
6. patted
7. swimming
8. great
9. steak
10. break
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year 2 Spellings
Focus: o sound spelt ‘a’ after w or qu
Handed out on Monday 14th January; Tested on Monday 21st January
- was
- watch
- want
- wallet
- squash
- quarrel
- quarter
- Mr
- Miss
- Mrs
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year 2 Spellings Focus: alternative ow
Handed out on Monday 10th December; Tested on Monday 17th December
- going
- seeing
- asking
- being
- doing
- pushing
- pulling
- floor
- door
- poor
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year 2 Spellings Focus: alternative g
Handed out on Monday 3rd December; Tested on Monday 10th December
1. edge
2. hedge
3. village
4. huge
5. giant
6. giraffe
7. jacket
8. pass
9. Christmas
10. because
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 2 common exception word list.
Year 2 have been looking at multiplication. We know that the words times, multiple, groups of and lots of can all be used. We have been looking at making arrays. What repeated addition number sentence could you also write for them?
Look out in the spring for some lovely colourful flowers. Green Team worked hard in their lunch time today to plant some bulbs given to us for free from Bulbs4Kids.
Green Team met at lunch time today and took inspiration from fireworks to create their own pieces of natural art.
This afternoon Year 1 ventured outside into the woods to make self portraits. We then worked together to make a model of our bodies. We will be using these during the first term next year, when we will learn more about parts of the body and our senses.
