Sycamore - Year 2
Welcome to the Sycamore Class Page
17/7/21 Year 2 Daily Mile Winners
24/6/21 Sycamore Sports Day
Safari Animal Hunt
We received a letter from Safiya, a safari guide who needed our help. She could not find some of the safari animals on the reserve and asked if we could help her find them.
We got our binoculars ready and stepped into Kenya! It was boiling hot! 
Although some of us were scared of the big, strong animals, we explored the safari reserve and as a class we were able to find all of the animals. Some of them we had never heard of before!
It was a lot of fun! 
Year 2 Curriculum Leaflet
3 Times Table Boxing
Curriculum Leaflet Download
💐🌷I Love the Flowers🌷💐
A joyful Spring song celebrating the simple pleasure that can be taken in appreciating the natural world, sung by Sycamore Class.
Chocolate Easter Nests
Sycamore thoroughly enjoyed making chocolate Easter nests before we broke up for the Easter holidays.
I mean, who doesn't love a delicious chocolatey treat?
We had fun following a simple easy recipe that allowed us to practice our Maths skills of measuring and encouraged us to work as group.
It was so much fun we forgot to take many pictures, sorry!
The Wishgranter
We loved watching 'The Wishgranter' video below.
After watching the video we retold the story section by section and had some opportunities to act as well.
In each group one of us started off being the bored wishgranter. We thought about the characters feelings and how to show that in our facial expressions. When the man and womans wish was not granted they would have been sad and disappointed, the man who wished for money would have been very excited when he received it, and the man, woman and wishgranter would be cheerful and pleased when the man and womans wish was granted.
Science Week
During Science week we enjoyed completing many different activities. We enjoyed combining Maths and Science to learn about nets of a cube, make cubes and try to build the tallest freestanding tower.
WELCOME BACK!
We are looking forward to welcoming you back to school on Monday 8th March.
Year two gates will open at 8:45am. Afternoon gates will open at 3:20pm ( Mon-Thurs) and 2:20pm on Fridays.
Please watch the video below as Ms Newton explains new entry instructions.
Year 2 Lockdown Bubble
During lockdown, we had a lot of fun in the Year 2 bubble. We completed Joe Wicks exercises on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We would also dance and enjoyed doing fun Go Noodle exercise routines. In pairs, we practiced spelling our high frequency words using foam letters, scrabble letters and play dough. It was good to see our fellow peers in Teams meetings online and we had a lot of fun during World Book Week. We used paint and our hands to create Cat in the Hat paintings. Miss Burton also read us the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss.
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year to you all and to your families.
Unfortunately, I will not be able to see you all and hear about your Christmas break at this time but I hope you have had a lovely holiday and that you are ready to do lots of learning! 
Although school is closed there will still be lots to do.
I will be uploading different work tasks to the 'School Closure' button at the top of the page.
Also, you will soon receive login information for your Microsoft Teams account where I will be setting you assignments for you to complete, which you can win points for if you try your best!
If you do not have access to a computer and require a printed home learning pack, please call the office or email our class email address, sycamore@kafed.org.uk , so that this can be organised for you.
Happy working 
I hope to see you soon!
Miss Burton 
Christmas Fun!
We had so much fun before breaking up for the Christmas holidays! All of Year 2 enjoyed playing PE games outside together, some with a Christmas twist!
Decorative Christmas hats were made for our Christmas dinner and we had an AWESOME Christmas party!
We danced, sang, ate, drank and played games like pass the parcel and pin the nose on Rudolph. It was a fantastic way to end the year with our Sycamore class family.
Elf Day 2020
On Elf Day we had so much fun!!
We sung and danced to Christmas songs, did our advent calendar, completed word-searches, coloured and did different activities across Year 2.
We thoroughly enjoyed playing a Grinch game with Mr Walker, making a reindeer craft and doing a Science experiment with Miss Burton. Santa Claus had sent Miss Burton a letter with instructions for the awesome Science experiment we did - mini glitter explosions!!
It was a brilliant festive day
🎄 Sycamore's Christmas Songs 🎄
Sycamore Class enjoyed singing and spreading a little Christmas cheer! ✨
We hope you enjoy and sing-along with us! 😁
Merry Christmas! 🎄❤️
More Acting The Great Fire of London!! - 11.12.20
We acted out the story of The Great Fire of London to help us retell it in our writing.
We pretended we were sleeping in bed when we awoke to the smell of fire!
Everyone was so shocked and scared.
Historians believe the fire started because nobody checked the fire had been put in the bakery on Pudding Lane. Oh no!
Houses were built close together so the fire spread quickly.
The people passed buckets of water to try to put out the fire.
Terrified people escaped in boats on the River Thames.
The fire burned for 4 days!
14/11/2020 - We have been re-enacting the Great Fire of London
9/11/2020 - We played some awesome word games in phonics
5/11/2020 - We've found great new ways to practise or phonics
3/11/2020 - We read and collected so many sounds today
2/11/20 - We were so quick at sorting phonemes!
We hope you enjoy it too!
Helpful phonics resources
Click the link below to find phonics videos to support your child at home.
22/10/20 - We're doing well with our tens and ones
2/10/20 - Great work ordering numbers
Sycamore class entrance through the main gates on Elfrida Crescent
Directions to Sycamore Class via the KS1 playground
Directions to Sycamore Class continued
Important information for children returning in September:
On Thursday 3rd September the children will be returning to school. They will be welcomed back by their previous teacher and will be introduced to Ms Burton, their new teacher, on Friday 4th September.
Sycamore class children are to enter and leave school through the main gates. Children will be collected in the morning from the main gates by teachers and TA's. In the afternoon, one parent is allowed on site. Children are to be collected from outside the year 1 playground doors in the afternoons.
Start time: 9:05am Finish time: 3:25pm (2:25 pm on Fridays)
See you in September!
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Homework Autumn 1
