Year Two Blog

We sang Frère Jacques for the first time today. Can you believe it? We have been learning a bit of French, and 2JS’ exceptional singing is coming in handy! Let us know what you think. Well done too to our steady-cam operator… Filming is quite an art!

Frère Jacques from jacksloan on Vimeo.

I have to say that I’m hugely impressed with my class this year. They are so lovely! Well done 2JS.

Here it is…

What do you think?

To download, click the “Vimeo” link at the bottom right of the screen. This will take you to the download site. Next scroll down. You should see a grey section in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen which says “download”. You need to register with the website. It’s free and very easy. Once you have done that, you can download away… It will take a while!
Please let me know if you have any problems. Mr Sloan.

slavery – 2JS class assembly. from jacksloan on Vimeo.

In the past few weeks, 2JS have been researching information about our planet. They have used a wide range of books as well as the internet to find out interesting and important facts, as well as pictures to illustrate their reports. They had to choose their own sub-headings and write other features of a non-chronological report including glossaries. They used Microsoft Publisher for the first time to put their reports together. What do you think?

The children worked independently on their posters, and were not helped with their spellings, the content or how they chose to set them out. What makes them easy or more difficult to read? What information would YOU put onto your own poster?

We did it! One week until the summer holidays, but weren’t the children great! I am really proud of all of the children in my class, and really sad that they will be leaving on their own voyage into Year 3. Good luck 2JS!

Please tell us what you think of our assembly. What were your favourite bits? What could have been better?
If the video keeps stopping and starting, it is worth “buffering” it for a few minutes first. Press play, then press pause and wait a minute or two. This lets the video load up a bit before you start playing it.

2JS are doing a class assembly in a few weeks. We have been reading Terry Jones’ excellent book Eric The Viking. We are going to try using Voicethread to come up with our own exciting chapter which we can write together and then perform. This is the first step.
Top tip – remember everyone in 2JS needs to be able to join in, so how could we get lots of characters involved?

What should the basic story be? Don’t forget to include the settings, characters, problems and solutions…

Tell us what you are all about 2JS. Remember not to leave any information about where you live, your second name or any other information which would make it easy to find you. Well done to Usamah for filming. The Flip camera is our new toy!