Year 2 Blog

My favourite children's book is called 'The Sneetches and Other Stories' by Dr. Seuss. It was published a long time ago in 1953 but it's still so wonderful! The stories are basically funny poems that are so entertaining and have a great rhythm to them. Dr Seuss would often create his own words and use them in his stories which adds to the humour. The book has four stories in but my favourite is 'The Sneetches'. It has a very important message underneath all the silliness about diversity and being kind to people who are different to you.

Well, Year 1 and 2 had the most wonderful day yesterday. We had the opportunity to get all dressed up into our beautiful party clothes and boogie the afternoon away! We all went into the hall and showed our fantastic dancing skills and played lots of party games too. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door and when we turned around, we saw that it was Santa! All of the children had the opportunity to meet Father Christmas and were given a very special present. After all of that excitement, we all went back to class and had some delicious party food.

We had so much fun last week in Year 2 for fairy tale week! We discussed our favourite stories and fairy tales before reading Rumpelstiltskin. We all really enjoyed the book and spent the week learning important fairy tale phrases and coming up with actions to help us remember them. We also created our own story map for Rumpelstiltskin to help us when we began to write the story in our own words.

On Friday we dressed up as our favourite fairy tale characters. Can you guess who we are?

This half term we have been learning all about The Great Fire of London. We've been reading Samuel Pepys' diary and this week we will be writing our own diary entries. Did you know that the fire was rumoured to have started in a bakery? Next week we will use an old recipe to bake the cakes which may have started The Great Fire of London!