18.12.14

Welcome to the new Thistle and Bramble's Blog.
This has been a very busy and exciting term and as we come to the end of it, we are pleased to re-launch this Blog, for the current class Thistle and Bramble.

During the Christmas break you may have some time to spare and you may like to find out some information to support our Spring Term topics.

Explorers - Neil Armstrong and Christopher Columbus 








http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/christopher_columbus/

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/space/moonlanding.html

The Amazonian Rainforest

http://www.rainforestconcern.org/tour/rfc_guide.htm


Set yourself a challenge. Can you find out 5 interesting facts about each topic?

11th July 2014

Festival of Learning.

Well done class Thistle and Bramble for your great projects. Through your fund raising you have made over £110.00, which will go to the charity Rainforest Concern. That's amazing!
 This charity allows you to sponsor acres of the Rainforest, offering protection from deforestation.


                                       




  www.rainforestconcern.org

Class Bramble have raised some extra money to buy a small sapling to plant in our school field. Well done!



Recorder Concert.

The festival of learning started with a fantastic recorder concert, where all Year 2 children were included. It sounded beautiful. Well done everyone, we are very proud of all of you.

                                                      

Amazing Esme.

Esme heard a sound.

We used a series of questions to up level this simple sentence.

What kind of sound?

When did it take place?

What did it sound like?

Where was it coming from?

How did it make her feel?

(short, effective sentence)

These are some of our amazing sentences - 

When it was Midday and Esme and her 3 cousins were gold mining, they heard a sniffing sound coming from the direction of the way they came. They started to giggle.
By Daisy - class Thistle

Esme heard a BOOM, it sounded like someone firing a canon from a tree. She felt sad.
By Nakachi - class Thistle

At Midnight, Esme heard a clanging sound that sounded like cups clanging together. She started laughing.
By Zuby - class Thistle

In the afternoon Esme heard a screeching sound coming from her wardrobe. It made her feel worried and scared.
By Tilly - class Bramble

In the middle of the creepy night.......Esme heard a sssssssssssssss sound coming from under her bed, after it sounded like a rattle. She felt horrified.
By Harrison - class Bramble

At 8 o'clock in the night Esme heard a screeching sound that sounded like a creature, coming from her room. She felt scared.

By Ajveer - class Bramble

Have a try at up levelling this simple sentence -

Esme saw the castle.

We would love to see your sentences.

This week we started reading Amazing Esme by Tamara Macfarlane.




In the book Esme goes to visit her cousins, who live in Maclinkey Castle. The castle is crazy and chaotic. lots of weird and wonderful animals live there. Your homework this week is to draw Maclinkey castle and write some interesting sentences to describe it.




The book is full of fantastic descriptions.What do you think the castle library or kitchen looks like? Try to imagine the bad-mannered tea party. If you draw any Amazing Esme pictures at home, then bring them in to school and we will display them in our book corner.

We have been learning about William Morris in Art. Your homework this week is to find out 3 interesting facts about him. For example, he lived at the Red House in Bexleyheath.

Have a look at some of his wallpaper designs.

     

The other part of your homework is to design your own wallpaper in the style of William Morris, using flowers fruit and leaves. We look forward to seeing them.

Friday 6th June
This week in year 2, we started our Rainforest projects.
Our BIG QUESTION is -
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT DEFORESTATION?
These are some of our first ideas -
We could raise money for a rainforest charity -Luca (Class Thistle )
We could sell things after school on a stall, to raise money - James (class Thistle)
We could make people aware by making bus banners or posters - Daisy (class Thistle)
Plant lots of trees to give us more oxygen - Molly (class Bramble)
Make a Blog about deforestation - Lola (class Bramble)
Put posters on the train windows and make leaflets - Alex (class Bramble)








Rainforest Alliance

Green your classroom

Try these links to get more information about the Amazon Rainforest and deforestation.

Maths games

This term we have been playing new maths games which focus on several different areas of maths. We normally spend 5-10 minutes on each game and it is a fun way for the children to get ready for the lesson ahead.

Why don't you try some of the games yourself?

Guess the number
In this game you are given 5 clues to a number and have to work out what number the dog is thinking of. You can choose your difficulty of a number between 1 and 25, 1 and 50 or if you want a real challenge
1 and 100.

Check out challenge
Here you are a worker at a shop and you need to work out the correct amount of change to give to the customer. After you have worked out how much change to give you need to use the right amount of coins that give you the correct change.

Hit the button
In this game you need to try and get as many questions right in one minute. You can try doubling and halving, times tables or number bonds. What will be your high score?

During our ICT lessons we have been collecting information, making a tally and then making a graph.

Firstly, in groups, we decided on a question with options related to food. We then collected our data as a class using a tally chart. Finally we went to the I.C.T suite to make our graphs.

If you would like to make your own graphs or charts follow the links below

Make your own bar graph

Make your own pie chart

Alex's pie chart

Ashton's graph

Grace's pie chart

Literacy

This week Year 2 have been looking at adventure stories. We read lots of Magic Key books and discussed the characters.

WALT: write a detailed character description.

Steps to Success:
1. Choose a character from the Magic Key stories.
2. Write sentences describing their appearance.
3. Write a description of the character thinking about how they behave, how they feel in the story and what they like and dislike.
4. Check your description makes sense and check your punctuation.

Kathryn and Millie both chose to describe Kipper. Here is Kathryn's character description in her own words and spelling:-

Kipper
Appearance
Kipper has blonde hair and very light peach skin. He has blue eyes and his eyes are kind. Kipper's eyes are light green round his pupil, light blue in the middle and very dark blue round the light blue.
Behaviour
Kipper is very happy most of the time but he can get a bit angry. He is really quite adventurous and very brave. Often Kipper is cheery and friendly but sometimes he can get a bit curious.



Here is Millie's character description in her own words and spelling.
Kipper
Appearance
Kipper is a small young boy with short blonde hair. He also has a baby blue jaket and a t-shirt wich is orenge and wite. He has a dark blue pair of trousers. His trousers as blue as the sky.
Behaveuiour
He is a happy and joyful boy. Sometimes he is angry with people because they humiliate him in front of his family and friends.
Likes
He likes dipping strawberrys into melted chocolate. He also loves his teacher Mrs May. He likes welcoming new people to his school.
Dislikes 
He dislikes people who are mean, hurtful and horible. He absolutly do'snot like people with nits. He d's not like peanutbutter sandwiches.

We are looking forward to writing our own Magic Key adventures next week.