Learning fun in Mandarin

I still remember at the beginning of this year, our students in year 2 students found very difficult in writing the Chinese characters, they found that the characters are strange to them, not easy to copy the words. But now, the students don't feel difficult anymore. They knew how to follow the stroke order, they knew how to find the radical, they knew how to count the strokes......Let's see how good they are! 

Can you see we are practicing the character well!

We try to write the character following the correct stroke order!

2E story writing and Book Day

This week in 2E the children have been editing and improving their stories inspired by Room on the Broom. I was very impressed with the descriptive language used and the increasing sophistication of children's writing. They worked together very well to suggest ways to make the stories better.

Book Day today was an exciting book-related day. First there was an assembly and a quiz this morning. Then, the children went to Year 7 where the Year 7 children read stories to them in small groups. After that, Mrs Simmonds read Dick King-Smith's book, Aristotle to the children, out on the panda playground. Many thanks to Mrs Simmonds for We then shared each other's book reviews and gave each other positive criticism about each one. I was again very impressed with the amount of hard work the children put into these reviews. They showed some very grown-up thinking skills!

Finally today, there were certificates given for the best costumes and for the winners of the quiz this morning.

Here are some photographs from the day. You can find many more on the website and the Facebook page.

The papaya that spoke

This week in preparation for NAIS book day we have been doing some 'Talk for Writing'. Today I introduced a story to the children called 'The Papaya that spoke.' The idea is we will learn the story off by heart, with actions ready to perform on Book Day. Here are some of the children practicing...

Once upon a time there was a farmer who lived in a village.

Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh screamed the farmer!!

One day he was so hungry he went to pick a Papaya.

To his amazement the Papaya spoke.

The children have worked hard so far to familiarise themselves with the story. We will be practicing again tomorrow and filming them on Thursday so look out for their videos. We definitely have some budding actors and actresses in the class. 

2C - Part 2: Videos of 'The Gruffalo's Child' English!

2C enjoyed acting out parts of the story 'The Gruffalo's Child' in order to help them say how they thought the characters were feeling during different scenes from the book. We hope you enjoy seeing them in action!

 

2C - Part 1:Phonics, Library Visit, Show and Tell, The Gruffalo's Child, Great Fire of London, Book Review, Estimating and Measuring Weight and Maths Word Problems!

Mr Chave's phonics set learning how to add 'ing' to words!

 2C visiting the library and Mrs Richardson our new librarian!

 Show and Tell time!

 As part of our English unit looking at different books by the same author, children looked at their third Julia Donaldson book 'The Gruffalo's Child'. Children tried to think how the Gruffalo's child and other characters would be feeling in order to use appropriate descriptive language. Acting out scenes to help this process was great fun too!

 Learning about the Great Fire of London!

 2C writing a book review about their favourite Julia Donaldson book!

 In Maths, 2C have been looking at comparing, estimating and measuring objects!

2C played a Gruffalo board game which required them to roll a dice, land on a square, answer the question about the story and characters' feelings before finally writing down their answer in the book.

 2C sequencing events from The Great Fire of London into the correct order before sticking them in to their books in the correct order.

Mr Chave's phonics set learning about compound words!

 2C trying to solve some Maths word problems involving measuring!

 2C trying to research information about the author Julia Donaldson using the iPads!

 Finn, Oskar and Ben enjoying one of Julia Donaldson's songs!

 Mr Chave's phonics set practising how to add 'ing' to words!