Y2 09.07.20

Date: 9th Jul 2020 @ 8:19am

Buenas Dias Swallows Class

What a miserabe, rainy day! Who has been singing?  I know that you will all manage to have a great day despite the weather.

Our story today is brought to you by Mrs Southern reading- A duck so small. This is the perfect day to cosy up with a story. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6n9-ufbARY

Our Maths lesson today can be found under https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/.

We are adding and subtracting ones. 

In Writing, we will look at an axtract from the fabulous story, George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl and learning how to summarise the main points. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfqsm39

A message from Mrs Powell

Gillian Ayres

In the 1970s, she became the first woman ever to run an art department in a British Art School! When she was older, she moved to North Wales. In Wales, she started to use oil paint again rather than acrylic paint to make her artwork. Oil paint is really thick and sometimes she would apply the paint so it would be inches thick! While she lived in Wales her artwork became even bolder and more joyful.

Gillian Ayres wanted people to be happy when they looked at her art and the world around them. Does her art make you feel happy? What other emotions do you feel?

Gillian Ayres was obsessed with painting. She is one of the most famous British abstract painters. Being an abstract painter meant you didn't care about artworks looking like real things, like people or buildings, but you care about shapes, colours and emotions. Someone asked her once what her artwork was about, and she just listed random things like ice cream, cakes, seaweed, shells and hats!

I will see you all tomorrow, I am really excited, we can't wait to see you all together again as a class. 

Love from Mrs Rice and Mrs Elson xxx