Kingfishers

We are Kingfishers Class

Our class teachers are Mrs Burns and Mrs Gasson. Our Learning Assistant is Mrs Sayied. We look forward to sharing with you all the exciting things that happen in Kingfishers Class.

Spring Term-

We have had a very busy week this week!

Kingfishers class looked very different on Thursday with all the children dressed up in some wonderful costumes for World Book Day. They enjoyed talking about their characters and enthusiastically shared the books they had brought in.

In Bushcraft this week we have been hunting for bugs using magnifying glasses. The children have also been looking for leaves, sticks, petals and other bits to make their own fairies.

We also had the opportunity to take part in a fantastic Scooter Skills Session. Once knee pads, elbow pads and helmets were safely in place Kingfishers enjoyed travelling on their scooters. Some even trying out some new tricks! Everyone had a go and the children all had lots of fun! Well done Kingfishers!

Springfield Day Friday, 21^st November – Mini Rabbit by John Bond

We read the Mini Rabbit series of books by John Bond all week and have enjoyed looking at the beautiful, colourful pictures. We used oil pastels, water colour pencils, coloured pencils and paint to recreate them. 

On Friday we had a visit from the author of Mini Rabbit. The children were very excited to meet John Bond as they had enjoyed his books and re-creating his artwork so much. John Bond told us about his life and inspirations. We then had a ‘draw-a-long’ where John Bond taught us step-by-step how to draw Mini-Rabbit as all the children drew with him.  

Ice Skating – Friday 5^th December

The children had a mixture of emotions about ice skating this week, a few nerves, some worries and lots of excitement. Once at the ice rink, our boots were on and the children were off! Everyone went onto the ice and after half a lap around the ice clinging to the edge, some children were keen to give their balance a go with only one hand holding on…….then no hands! By the end almost everyone had ventured away from the edge and had slid further away towards the middle where they were doing a great job of keeping their balance. By the time we were finished they had all had a great time and everyone was really pleased with their bravery, resilience and what they had accomplished. Well done Kingfishers! We are super proud of you all!!

This term in Kingfishers we have been learning about the animal groups: birds, fish and amphibians. We have learnt about how these types of animals are different to each other. 

In art we have been working on our drawing skills by drawing different parts of birds while looking closely at an image or object finally drawing the whole bird. 

In English we are learning how to add suffixes to the ends of a word. We have been looking at adding -ed to show that something happened in the past (jump – jumped). We are now working on adding -s and -es to show that there are more than one object (book – books, box – boxes).  Try this game: https://www.spellingplay.co.uk/planning-and-resources/year-2/more-suffixes/plural-pirates for adding -s and -es.

Look below to see what we will be learning all about in Kingfishers class this term!