Snow Ideas 28.2.18

Dear parents/carers,

Following the decision to close schools today and with the forecast of more snow tomorrow here are some ideas you might like to do at home to keep your children busy and learning through fun!

Snowball throwing addition

Make a target by creating a bright circle in the snow with coloured water in a squirt bottle (just add a few drops of food colouring), make the target worth an amount e.g. 5 points.  Then aim at the target and throw, count up all your points.  You could use different coloured rings for different amounts on the target.

Frosty Toss

Create a bird feeder for our feathered friends using an orange or a pine cone filled with peanut butter/fat  and pieces of seeds, nuts or fruit…

orange bird feeder    Image result for orange cup bird feeder    Image result for pine cone bird feeders

 

Ice sculpture

Look at this enormous caterpillar and rocket!

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Play noughts and crosses using sticks and cones.

Tic-Tac-Snow

Write a snow poem

Follow this link for examples:

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/snow-and-ice-2/

Great Big Snowman

I’m a great big snowman,

Tall and fat

Here’s my tummy

Here’s my hat

Coal for my eyes

And a carrot nose

I’m all snow from

Head to toes

Snowflakes

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Twirl around

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Touch the ground

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Land on my nose

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Freeze my toes

Snowflakes, snowflakes

In the air

Snowflakes, snowflakes

Everywhere!

 

More Fun Ideas

* Create a maze – Put on your hiking boots and stamp out a path for your chidlren to follow.
* Plan a scavenger hunt – Hide an apple in a mound of snow so that a little bit peeks out. Give the children silly directions to follow as they search for it.
* Play freeze tag – Can you think of a more appropriate game for a chilly day? Once someone’s tagged by the person who’s “It,” he/she has to stay frozen until another player tags him again.
* Make faces – Use handfuls of packed snow to create funny characters on a tree trunk.

* Walk this way – Have your children follow your lead as you move like different animals: Waddle like a penguin, stomp like a bear, and wiggle like a fish

* Have a snowball fight – Divide your family into teams, then start throwing. Save this one for last so you can go inside, dry off, and have some hot chocolate.

 

Have fun!

We hope to see you soon

The Year 2 Team

Author Visit – David Lucas

Today the author David Lucas came to visit us as part of Book Week.

He read the story of ‘Grendel – A Cautionary Tale about Chocolate’ and then taught the children how to draw Grendel using simple shapes. The children thought about what they might wish for if they were given three wishes like Grendel in the story.

David then showed the children how they can create their own imaginative story characters using combinations of words e.g. an ice and fire dragon, a robot tiger or a class princess.

The children have brought their drawings and ideas home with them and David has challenged them to continue working on these. If they develop their characters further or use their ideas to write a story it would be great to share these in class.

Just a reminder that on Friday it is dressing up day and we will be holding our second hand book sale. Any book donations will be gratefully received tomorrow or Friday and books will be on sale for 50p each.

Weekly note- week beginning 5.2.18

2.2.18

Dear Parents/Carers,

Maths
Our work in maths next week will be looking at symmetry and telling the time to the quarter hour. We shall also be moving on to looking at how times to the quarter hour are represented on a digital clock. To help your child prepare for this you may like to help them look at different clocks (digital and analogue) that you may have around your home. You could also encourage them to look for symmetrical things in the world around us (e.g. road signs, household objects, toys).

Homework
Please see the planet research homework (that your child should have brought home today) that your child will need to complete by Wednesday 7th February please. This homework will greatly help your child to write their report in class.

Bring and Buy Book Sale
As part of our Book Week celebrations this year we will be holding a ‘Bring and Buy a Book’ sale on Friday 10th February. The children are invited to bring to school any unwanted books from home which are still in good condition and could be loved by another child. All the books will be sold for 50p and the money raised will be used to buy new books for the school. The sale will take place during school time in the main hall. If your child would like to buy a book(s) in the sale then please can they bring 50p coins with them on Friday. They will be allowed to buy 2 books when visiting with their class. Any extra books will then be available to purchase at lunch time.

Author Visit
We are very lucky to have the author and illustrator David Lucas visiting us on Wednesday to talk to the children about his books.

Book Day
On Friday 9th February, the children are invited to come to school dressed as a character from a chosen book. The children will have time to talk about their chosen book character and the story from which they are from.

Thank you for your continued support
Mrs Ash, Mrs Ashworth/Mrs Le Prevost and Mrs Page