Trip to the National Gallery

As part of our Journeys topic this half term we went to the National Gallery. We looked at three key paintings showing different types of journeys: by boat, donkey and train! After lunch we also went to look at 'Tiger in a Tropical Storm' by Rousseau, as we had studied this marvellous painting during our rainforest topic and we managed to have a quick look at Van Gogh's sunflowers too!

The chicks have hatched!

As part of our life cycle topic, Year 2 Purple were lucky enough to observe the baby chicks hatch and give them a gentle stroke!

Wolrd Book Day!

What fabulous costumes! Well done to everyone who came in dressed as a character from a book to celebrate World Book Day today. This week we will be doing a range of different book related activities including designing front covers of our favourite books and visiting the newly decorated Queensbridge library!

Salmagundy

Today we mastered the practical skills of grating, slicing and assembling ingredients to make a Salmagundy! This is a Victorian salad that was often eaten with afternoon tea. The salad is made in a teacup and then turned upside down to make a beautiful layered salad. We all worked fantastically in our groups and enjoyed eating our salads.

 

Happy New Year!

We celebrated Chinese New Year with a special workshop. Children got to try on the dragon mask and perform a special dance!

Shape!

We have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes in class. First we tried to sort our shpes into Venn diagrams and then we worked in pairs to build shapes using straws and polydron.

Homework

So much amazing homework has been brought into Purple Class!! Thanks so much for working so hard and please keep sharing your home learning with us!!

 Healthy plates of food.

 We got to see a Victorian house and many children have been baking!

We even had a dinosaur fact sheet brought in, as we had been reading about fossils during guided reading!