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H has made is own flag, he has kept is very similar as he likes the St George’s flag!

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Hi all,
Miss Wilson has made us a shiny new Padlet as this one was getting rather slow to load. Find it at the top of the Y2 blog homepage.
Who's going to be the first to post their home learning on it?!

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Last week my very own G celebrated St George’s Day and we made a shield & sword 🗡🛡

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H is learning his spellings today by putting all the letters of the alphabet on the wall and throwing the basket ball at the letters to make the word

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Our school week so far! Ms loved making the flag!

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C has been working hard at home! Her Mum sent these photos for us to share. Well done C!

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C has been working hard at home! Her Mum sent these photos for us to share. Well done C!

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E and her sister did junk modelling to make a dragon today. A good rainy day project!

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Z designed our family flag. We have green for daddy, turquoise for mommy and pink for Z. The heart is because we love each other.

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J baked more cookies this morning with Dad, we talked about quarters (1 out of 4 equals!) and cut them into equal parts. Completed his Kumon work and the all about Frogs worksheet! Now they deserve some cookies! 🍪

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J watched the videos of St George’s day and decided to type his own out on his laptop. The boys then made their own dragon! 🐉

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Jb and his brother enjoyed the problem solving activity... Even though mummy on made enough mix for 15 biscuits 🙈

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E did her Work today and then helped Daddy teach a fitness class live to his students this afternoon.

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He’s finished it with a little help from me.

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Meet Bob!

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When ‘home schooling’ went out the window today, we didn’t complete any blog work or much else! iPads, Switches, movies & a afternoon of baking! We’ve come to the idea that Sometimes you just need one of those days 💜

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FROGS AND QUARTERS
G has learned today about frogs life and how to split a shape in quarters.

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We wanted to see if we could decipher invisible ink messages!

We used lemon juice and ear buds to write invisible messages for each other.

To decipher the messages we used a candle flame to create an oxidisation reaction which causes the juice to turn brown which reveals the message!

We used an candle flame but it could burn the paper away before you can read the words. You can also use an iron to reveal the words!

“I think it is better than morse code because it can be intercepted but writing it on this you could post it to the other person so they can read it, they can burn it to destroy it” “it would be a problem if the sun was hot and would reveal the message if the postman was out in the sunshine”

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Over the weekend the boys have been busy painting Jakes new bedroom & playing in the garden. (Whilst the sunshine lasts!)

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J decided that this was going to be call for help from someone stuck on an island in a cave. We made the map and message look old with teabags and burned the edges.

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Character Writing

O has created a character called 'Bad Guy' and wrote all about him. ❤️

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Here’s a few pictures of what we have been up to last week and this morning. Making a pizza for his tea, attempted to make a lava lamp but it was a fail 😂 he has been cutting wood to make a picnic bench bird table we will post a picture when it’s finished.we have enjoyed learning about frogs this morning as well as doing some fraction work.

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“What if the Earth was shaped like a cube?”
We discussed this over our BBQ. Jasper thought that you may be walking along and suddenly fall over a side like a cliff. Maybe there would need to be barriers to keep people safe? Jasper also thought that maybe in the sea there would be waterfalls as the water went over the edges. Mummy thought that the vertices would be like large mountains. Daddy figured that we wouldn’t have any gravity if the earth was a cube.

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Jasper enjoyed watch the video and completed the worksheet super quick!

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One More and One Less
H enjoyed using his Lego to learn more about numbers and used lots of mathematical language.

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Playdough and Volcanoes 

The boys created their own playdough and then set a dinosaur scene... They then used some Science to create an erupting volcano!! #lotsofmess

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Playdough and Volcanoes 

The boys created their own playdough and then set a dinosaur scene... They then used some Science to create an erupting volcano!! #lotsofmess

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G enjoyed a sunny walk up Nut Hill and his first BBQ this weekend

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O's caterpillars are now in their cocoons. We've been crafty again this morning and made hand print caterpillars

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N decided to make a map from a good girl pirate called Black Pearl. She was on the pirate ship with not so nice pirates but she had a good heart and wanted to help somebody who was poor and had no money. Black Pearl though that she’ll make a map 🗺 to let people know where they can find treasure and maybe one of poor people can find it and that would make them happy.

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M’s message in a bottle has been sent!!

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After completing the squiggly, spiral, bubble writing tasks Marley managed to get 10/10 on spellings! Yay!  We also watched Elon Musk satellites pass over on Wednesday evening......that was pretty cool!
We have had walks up Nut Hill too and have gone for a run with Daddy to keep fit 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼🏃🏻‍♂️

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Marley had fun making his message in a bottle.....he made it look old and wrinkly with a tbag! He hs been doing some football practicing and has had a zoom call with some friends from school and some of his football team😃.
He has been reading The Demon Dentist and this week one of his super wobbly teeth finally fell out!! (Maybe it was scared of the Demon Dentist!😄)

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R made a treasure map which was sent by Captain Soto on 17/03/1851 who went on treasure hunt but his ship got stuck....

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M’s science experiments - all about the body!

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M’s science experiments - all about the body!

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M placed bones in the right place on a skeleton and we learnt about muscle memory and co-ordination by making our arms move on their own and a test involving closing our eyes, touching our noses and then trying to touch hands above our heads!! A very interesting day!!

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This week we tried  a few different science experiments, we made a volcano and made it erupt we investigated what made it erupt and found out it was a chemical reaction between the baking soda and vinegar it produced carbon dioxide gas which builds up pressure inside the plastic bottle which makes it erupt. We also made doddles come to life by using a whiteboard pen,plate and water, h drew a Stickman on a plate poured the water onto it and this made the doddle ‘dance’ we also investigated why this happened.
We have also done another experiment using an egg but it takes a few day..........

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G has found a bottle with a letter asking for help from four people who have been isolated in an island. He designed a complicated seaplane that can go fast and safe to save their lives.

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What has a neck but no head? Jb's riddle on aged paper

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Had a go at the floating egg and Oil and water science experiments which involves the difference in densities

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A has been working towards his Beaver badges this week, he achieved his modeling badge by building a rocket out of recycled material.

Here's a a few photo's of what else he's been up to this week 🙂

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A very exciting morning with our caterpillars arriving! We’ve learnt that a caterpillar breathes through holes in its sides called spiracles. We’ve got 7-10 days to watch the caterpillars grow before changing into chrysalides! 🦋🦋🦋

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Bye bye butterflies 🦋

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We spent the morning writing out a help letter from a man who is stuck on the island after his boat crashed into a rock! He’s been on the island for 8 years and 10 days! J then put the letter in a bottle and put it in his own sea (paddling pool!!) & followed the instructions to find the man! Boys especially loved the burning of the edges of the letter!

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Z decided to make a message from a mermaid,  she shows a a map to where mermaid cove is. We used teabags to make the paper look old.

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G loved testing the hot air rises (& makes things rise) experiment. We talked about how hot air balloons work too as mummy & daddy used to work with them 🎈

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This morning G is focussing on his cricket practice

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After a morning of making up dance routines and a video call with her friend, M spent the afternoon doing some maths and spellings in the garden! We’ve just finished the day with a 45 minute walk, in Ms words ‘I can walk further now because I’ve got a new Fitbit’!!🤔

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The girls have enjoyed making a parachute today. E finished her writing challenge, have emailed it over 😊

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The boys did 5k of running & scootering this morning! Nearly beat their time from yesterday ⏰🏃‍♂️🛴

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We had a tray of milk and added spots of food colouring to it we then added fairy up liquid to a cotton bud and the boys put it in the middle of the tray and all the colours moved around the tray in swirls! J wants to try the experiment with water next time to see if it will still works.....

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Science task
G visited the sciencekids website and took part in a scientific virtual trip of the solar system learning and experimenting mainly about earth rotation, revolution, day, night and the seasons. He was also very suprised about the size of the sun when compared to our earth!!

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We’ve planted some seeds and have been measuring them every day to track their progress. Sunflowers are definitely the winners so far!

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Z decided she wanted to do the volcano science experiment . Z had fun making her volcano from play dough. We then added bicarbonate of soda and vinegar to make it erupt. She really enjoyed this.

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z and w did the lava Experiment we learnt that water is heavier than oil so the oil floats above the coloured water. The coloured bubbles in the water We’re really cool to watch move up down.
Z got 9/10 on this spellings this week! Lovely to hear from Miss A today too!

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J & H created some CES flags after looking at some flags on FIFA ⚽️

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G Spelling and Maths task
G has been practicing his spelling and maths for today creating sentences with new words and cutting geometric shapes into halves.

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Jb enjoyed his research

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We got out for a much needed walk today discovering more of the bridle paths. E completed her shape work and matched the spellings and spent more time in the hot tub!

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This morning we toasted marshmallows on the "fire". Mummy heard the words "this is the best home forest school ever"
We also looked at equal and unequal parts of shapes, completed a very hungry caterpillar sentence game, played counting caterpillars and made pom poms.

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N is working hard on her hand writing during her Hedgehog task. We have now moved on to maths and N is cutting her shapes wearing a fairy dress.There wasn’t a single day where we had something normal on during lockdown 😂

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Another early morning run with J! 🏃‍♂️  He got a bit further this time and beat his record. ⏰

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Z and family have been very busy over Easter 🐣  holidays, we walked to the top of nut hill and around to Bowden hall, we made butterflies with our arts and crafts. We’ve played a lot in the sun shine and with bubbles and water outside. Z has done the hodgeheg task and we did fractions tasks too. Hes just finished his geography task he made a coopers edge flag and he researched Tsunamis we watched a few short programmes on them and then wrote a page all about what they are! We’ve been reading the Harry Potter series and are just about to finish book 3 he’s very gripped by the magic of it all 🤗 we’ve also been overindulging with all our baking creations. Z is missing his friends but has FaceTimed his best mate and cousins so he’s happy 😆

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Jb enjoyed the use of balls to help illustrate the earths movement

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Geography task

G has completed today's geography task using Google maps and Instant view around the neighbourhood, school and city. He also learned about UK's geographical features and "visited" his grant parent houses in Greece.

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We were very busy with school work today. Mommy and daughter working side by side. Zo decided she wanted to chat about “ What if the Earth was shaped like a cube?” She read through the library book she has still from school about the planets and then we chatted a little bit about it and then she wrote a little about it. “ I think if the world was shaped like a cube someone will make it to the edge or vertices and when they get to an edge or vertices they will be the first person to reach the end of the world and when they get to the edge they will touch it and the cube world will start to spin.”
Zo did well with the maths today, she had no problems answering the questions. We started writing silly sentences with our spelling words, but the brain Was getting tired. So we called it a day.

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So far this week we have finished the English task from week 2, enjoyed the maths task, used our new maths skills to weigh ingredients and then split our dough to make equal size cookies, made a Coopers edge school flag, started the timestables challenge, beautiful reading and learnt about the United Kingdom on BBC bitesize...M has been busy busy busy!!!😁

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Jb enjoyed decorating his hand

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G has been enjoying learning about fractions the last 2 days using marbles, pasta & eggs to make equal groups

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A lovely walk in the sun this morning morning followed by some maths from BBC Bitesize website. 😊
We had a lovely time over the Easter holidays, spending time as a family in the garden, creating our own Easter egg hunt, making cakes and having lots of BBQ's.
Our next adventure is camping in the garden. Wish us luck. 😂😊

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Ella has been busy this morning finding some facts out about Cyprus and drawing a flag for the school. She also went on timestable rockstars!

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We’ve had a early morning maths session! Good work J!  X

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O helped his brother with a creative number line yesterday.

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O really enjoyed the Hodgeheg story.

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Jake worked hard on his hedgehog story yesterday!

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M has had lots of fun this Easter...egg hunting, lots of bike rides, Crystal making, cheesecake making, plenty of paddling pool time and finally redecorating her bedroom!!

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We are growing our own butterflies so have read the very hungry caterpillar, made a storyboard and puppets to retell the story and then made beautiful rainbow butterflies. Lovely crafty day to get back into Home schooling!

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G makes equal parts

G completed English and Maths task today and cut the homemade pizza made by his mum in 4 equal parts.

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Ella completed her maths and English tasks this morning. She has spent most of the afternoon in the paddling pool with her sister

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Here’s some more things we got up to over Easter!

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We copied the reception blog today and created a puppet show for The Little Red Riding Hood! Lots of fun 🐺❤️

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Welcome back after the holidays everybody! I can't wait to see what you've all been up to. I baked some delicious brownies but unfortunately I live on my own so I had to eat them all... What was your favourite part of the holidays?

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Lots of fun in the garden, movies & walks 💛

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N finally could welcome her first butterfly yesterday after few weeks of waiting

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E wanted to show you what she has been up to today! She’s been busy doing some art and baking not forgetting the Easter egg hunt this morning!

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Jbs creation

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We’ve got our first chrysalis

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J has been getting out and enjoying the sunshine. Planting some flowers and taking a long walk around the fields of Coopers Edge! We saw the cows, explored a hollowed out tree, pulled some funny faces and climbed trees.
He’s also been very helpful (some of the time!) and being doing the washing up!

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Here’s Jasper’s own creation!

Everyday when I go out,
I stuff my shoes with sauerkraut.
I brush my teeth nice and clean,
I always use margarine.
I pack my bag with lunch to eat,
Filled with frozen peas!
Instead of clothes upon my back,
I wear a metal anorak.
When I pack my car to go,
It nearly always starts to snow!

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Took inspiration from the post on the school FB page.

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Aditi and her dad spent an hour making this little creation using hama beads! Learning patience, this young paduwan is!!

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We’ve had a break from school work over the last few days as mum and dad have been working! So easing into the weekend with some den building before tackling some tasks. We spotted some 3D shapes in our den!

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Z decided after looking through her book called “Animal questions and answers”  that she wanted to know more about why hippos attack each other?

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This Kingfisher had a nice walk to see the Coopers Edge Herd who were very friendly! Also wrote about his favourite thing ever (bet you cant guess what!) Thankyou to Mrs F who put another art task up, here are some of the little dots M created! 😃

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Evie wrote a History quiz and tested both sets of grandparents yesterday with it. She did a fact page on polar bears today and the Maths sheet plus some other maths we have found. Evie would like to wish all her friends and teachers a Happy Easter 🐣

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Lots achieved again this week. Favourite activity for the girls was making bird feeders at "home forest school"

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Jb enjoyed making and eating these

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J wrote about penguins this morning! Fun fact we learnt that A Gentoo Penguin is one of the fastest swimming birds, it can swim faster than most people can run!! 🐧