The recipe

The Year 2s have been very reliable at passing on the message that their families would like the recipe for banana bread. It was delicious! Click the picture below to find the recipe online.

Following instructions to make banana bread

On Thursday we worked in small groups with Mrs Dawson to make Gambian banana bread. We each had our own small bowl where we mashed the bananas and mixed the ingredients. Each ingredient needed to be weighted on the scales to make sure we used the right amount. We added raisins and golden sugar. We added oil and flour. We added baking powder to make it rise. The mixture cooked in small paper cases and then we ate the delicious cakes!

Instructions - some activities to try at home

In class we followed a set of instructions in the form of a recipe to make banana bread. Here are some activities to practise ordering instructions.
http://www.iboard.co.uk/activities/path/non-fiction-texts_instructional-procedural-texts

Freeze frames from our Power of Reading book

We have been trying to get a better understanding of the book 'Grace and Family' through drama. We role-played some scenes from the story and then held the position as a 'freeze frame'. When Miss Ash tapped our shoulder we imagined a thought our character might have and said it aloud. It was difficult at first to talk as if we were someone else and say their thoughts but we soon got the hang of it!

Tessellating pattern blocks

In our 'Power of Reading' book - Grace and Family, Grace goes to visit her Papa in The Gambia. The illustrations show wonderful patterns and colours in the African cloth at the market and in the fabric shop. Grace and her Nana have African dresses especially made for them. In class we will be designing our own African prints. To warm-up for this, and to link with our work on 2D shapes, we created tessellations using the pattern blocks.  Do you like our patterns?

Talking to each other to complete a student search

It was great to get talking to lots of different people in the whole of Year 2 as we did the student search. It was easy to find someone who likes pizza but much harder to find someone who has a family name beginning with S!

'Grace and family' our poem

Shopping

In a Gambian shop

Colourful

Scarfs with pictures

Amazing

Crocodile and elephant prints

Soft

Smiling faces

A bright knotted head scarf

Happy

Choosing and testing

Proud father

A little girl called Grace

Excited

A present

Pleased

With her first African dress 

Our 'Pumpkin Soup' stories

We innovated our own stories based on Helen Cooper's Pumpkin Soup. Here are some examples:

Felix

listen to ‘Felix’ on Audioboo

Beatriz

listen to ‘Beatriz’ on Audioboo

Hannah

listen to ‘Hannah’ on Audioboo

 

Story telling with puppets

In year 2, we have been using puppets to act out a scene from the story 'Pumpkin Soup'.

Story telling of 'Pumpkin Soup'

Julia and Alicia loved retelling the story of 'Pumpkin Soup' to their friends. Here's a chance for you to watch it too.

Story Boxes

Year 2 have been working very hard on their 'Traction Man' story boxes. They have been using many different materials to make their story boxes as imaginative as possible. Here are some pictures of Year 2 making them.