YEAR 2 (PINK)
Miss Stocks (Covering for Miss C Dunn)Welcome to class 2D
My name is Miss Dunn and I am one of two year 1/2 class teachers. We are supported by our wonderful teaching assistant Mrs Edmondson & Mrs Livingstone.
On our page you will be able to find out all about the extraordinary and exhilarating learning that takes place in our class every day.
Please take a look at our page and see what we’ve been learning so far this year.
We welcome any positive comments you’d like to share so please keep checking back to see what new adventures we’ve been on.
Feel free to add/share pictures of homework completed throughout the year.
Thank you
Miss Dunn
Our Class Blog
Snow Much Fun!
We couldn’t have asked for better weather this morning! We took the opportunity to go outside and use real snow to build a snowman like Lily from our story. We all agreed that it was a lot colder than the snow we used in school last week!
STEM Glider Project in 6B!
6B had a brilliant day on Friday 13th January as part of a project with the Small Piece Trust. We followed their livestream throughout the day and planned, built and tested gliders. We learned about the science behind flight and how the thrust and lift on a plane...
Digital Literacy – Lily and the Snowman
We have really enjoyed watching ‘Lily and the Snowman’ this week, which is our digital literacy focus for English this half term. We made our own snowmen in the tuff tray which enabled us to get into character and think about how Lily made her snowman. We also used...
Fruit Tasting
For our food unit in DT, we have been learning about different fruits and where they grow in the world. We have also been thinking about food hygiene and how to keep surfaces and equipment clean when we are preparing and cooking food. Today we enjoyed tasting fruits,...
Directions
We used different vehicles and followed instructions such as ‘left, right, forwards and backwards’ to ‘zoom’ around the room. We also then used the language ourselves to describe our journey around with the vehicles.
We are stick man, that’s us!
This week our story has been ‘Stickman’ across the week we engaged in different activities including stick hunts, making our own stickman or lady from different materials, story maps, comic strips and role play within our child initiated play. Each child had amazing...
North East Families Magazine (January – February 2023)
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Making our mark on 2023
Dough Disco
The children in nursery have been working on building those finger muscles. Every week we do Dough Disco to build the build strength in our arms, hands and fingers, its also great fun!
Our Dream Clouds
Today we have been thinking about our future hopes and ambitions and putting them on our dream clouds. The rain drops represent the things which might help us get there. Some of us thought about our future jobs and others thought of the type of person we would like to...
Working With Clay
Our new topic is the Ancient Greeks- we are learning the skills to create a Greek coil pot as our final piece. Today, we used a range of sculpting techniques to shape and manipulate clay- these included: pinching, rolling and scoring.
Measurement
We have worked practically today, choosing appropriate equipment to measure different lengths and heights around school. We thought about which equipment would give us the most accurate measurements.