Primary Students

Friday 14th May - Activities for K2 children due to school closure

The school is closed today due to the current political situation. Please check the school website before Monday 17th May for further updates and information.

Listed below are some activities that you could do with your child today. Please don't feel that you have to do all of them!

Check your class blog and the K2 blogs and add some comments.

Click on K2M's blog and learn the Solar System song.

Choose a nocturnal animal, draw it and try and find out some information about it, such as where it lives and what it eats.

Share some books with a grown up or brother or sister.

Build a model using construction materials or junk modelling.

Hide a toy and use directions to help your child find it i.e. 'Go forwards, go past the blue chair, look under the table.'

Sing some songs.

Play a board game with a dice, such as snakes and ladders or ludo.

Play with playdough.

Play a game  on the computer from 'Link and Learn'.

Do something physical - ride a bike, swim, throw and catch a ball, play football etc.

Count some small items - paper clips, counters, coins, beads etc.

Paint or draw a picture.

Play 'I spy with my little eye'.

Your child may also have some good ideas so please also ask them what they would like to do!!

We look forward to seeing your children soon.

Kind regards,

The K2 Team

Here are a few ideas to keep your children busy tomorrow;

• Put a comment on your class blog
• Check out the other classes blogs to see what they have been up to
• Draw a picture of your favourite animal from our zoo trip and tell Mummy or Daddy about it
• Make a junk model animal or an animal mask
• Go for a swim
• Take a bike ride
• Make a zoo out of a construction kit, for example Lego

The K2 children had a lovely Tiger Day making lots of pictures, paintings and puppets with tigers on. They especially enjoyed the visit from some of the students in Y6 who came to make book marks with them and join in the other tiger activities too. It was lovely to have fun and raise money for children who are not as lucky as our children.

Over the past few weeks K2A have had a wonderful time doing lots of activities around the nursery rhyme ‘Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, Baker's Man'.  This has included lots of discussions about the children's own experiences of visiting a Bakery and about what they like about baking.  The children then built their own Pat-a-Cake Bakery in the classroom which they have used for playing the role of a Baker.  The children also got the chance to visit the Bakery in the Secondary school, and helped to make an ‘apple, raisin cake', which:

"It was yummy, right, I loved it!"  (Sam)

"It smelled and taste so yummy, I want to eat it again!"  (Julianne)

The children have also had the opportunity to make their own cakes, bread and pastries using play dough, salt dough, and real ingredients which they sold on Friday in their Bakery to their Parents and Teachers!  K2A definitely have some ‘Super Star Bakers' and ‘Fantastic Bakery Servers!'

Miss Amy and Miss Harsha had great time too!

This week we have been sharing the story of 'We're going on a bear hunt' by Michael Rosen. The children have been helping their teachers read the story and even making their own games too. All week the tension has been mounting in K2 in preparation for our bear hunt. The children have been saying "Will it be a white bear?", "Do you think it will be friendly?" and "I am not afraid of a bear!".

The children spent all morning visiting the other K2 classrooms. They had the opportunity to make bears out of card and playdough, to measure and weigh bears, to draw bears and of course to make sandwiches and ice cookies for our picnic. Hunting bears is hungry work don't you know!

After lunch we all changed into our swimming clothes and headed off to look for bears. We had to go through swishy swashy grass, across a cold river, through squelchy mud, pas a big dark forest and through a snow storm. It was great fun, but exhausting. Did we find one I hear you ask?........well you will just have to find a K2 child and ask!