This week we have continued writing our stories about Paddington Bear. We have particularly focussed on how we can improve our sentences by adding adjectives and adverbs. We know that an adjective describes a noun and an adverb describes a verb. We know that an adverb or adverbial phrase can…
This week we have started to write stories based on ‘In hot water’, which is all about Paddington taking a bath. We have been trying really hard to extend our sentences using conjunctions, to write more than one sentence about an idea and to use adjectives to describe. We have…
This week we have continued with our work on Paddington bear. We have been trying really hard to use adjectives in our writing to create character descriptions. Some of us have even included similes – ask us to tell you all about them. We have also been focussing on joining…
In our English lessons this week we have watched some Paddington Bear clips and collected a range of adjectives to describe his personality and appearance. We had a go at writing similes about him – ask us what a simile is. Later in the week we started writing descriptions of…
Welcome back! We hope you’ve all had a lovely summer break. The children have settled into their new classroom really well and are already showing us what great purple learners they can be! We have started our London topic by discussing what we already know about our capital city and…
We are fast approaching the end of term and the children have been reflecting on their time in year 2, both in writing and pictures. We compared the very first piece of writing that we did in class 2 with the most recent piece and were amazed by how much…
In our topic sessions this week we have been writing about our time in Class 2. We thought about the things we have enjoyed doing, our successes and challenges and what we are looking forward to in Class 3. We have also been looking back at our very first pieces…
In English, we have continued to take inspiration from our topic text, ‘Wild’, and our habitats work, focusing this week on non-fiction. We imagined the other sorts of creatures that might live in the jungle, particularly mini-beasts, and designed our own ‘superbug’! Our superbugs have lots of impressive features that…
Written by Class 2 Because it has been multi-cultural week in school this week, we have been visiting classes and each class had its own country. We were lucky enough to visit eight different countries. America Spain Italy Brazil Scotland South Africa Mali Greece In America we learnt how to…
Welcome back! We hope you’ve had a lovely half term and the children enjoyed some rest after their busy SATs week – we were really impressed with how hard they all worked during their tests. On Monday we had an exciting day of writing with another visit from Tim at…
