Last Friday was No Pens Day, so instead of writing poems we drew them!  We took an idea from the poet Brian Moses who had challenged children to turn ordinary creatures into super-creatures.  We used adjectives, similes and a lot of exaggeration, watch the video below to hear some of work.

 

Quadblogging

Over the past few weeks we have been Quadblogging in Badger class!  We have grouped with three other schools around the world (one in Leeds in the north of England, one in Australia and one in America).  We have learnt loads from them - the school in Australia has a farm attached to it, they have cows, sheep and lamas.  In America, the children recently met a helicopter pilot in their topic about transport.  The children in Leeds are learning almost exactly the same things as us, they do big writing and have posted stuff about the great fire of London.  We love learning about children in other parts of the world!

Questions for Dave

Badgers, and the rest of year 2, are REALLY lucky to have an artist agree to answer some questions about his art work!  Dave Kirkwood is an artist who has a drawn a fantastic picture of the Micro-Mob, have a look at an earlier post for more info. 

In literacy we talked about open and closed questions, we wrote them on sugar paper in pairs, then chose our best ones.

Dave - here are the three very best questions from Badger class (there are another six questions coming from the other two classes!)

1. What inspired you to draw the Micro-mob monsters? (Francesco)

2.  Why did you want to be an artist? (Maddie)

3. Why are so good at drawing? (Barrie)

We can't wait to hear your answers!

Clay Model Monsters

We have made our monsters our of clay - take a look!

 

Monsters in Badger Class

Here is Francesco's description of his micro-mob monster!

The monster has a triangle body with dots, very long wings with a brick pattern on them.  He has head spikes that have a stripe pattern on them.  He is a cartoon hero in monster world, he is as fast Usian Bolt, shoots lasers out of his dots and can look everywhere.

Micro Mob!

Today was Badger Class' first day with Mr Davies in year 2!  The Badgers spent the afternoon working on our Take One Picture project.  We are using a picture by the artist Dave Kirkwood, he only finished it last week!  Follow this link to get a sneak peak at what he's done and why...
http://davekirkwoodstudio.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/why-micro-mob-needs-names/ 
Have you done anything for charity?  What would your monster look like?

Look what I saw at school today!

summer holiday

How has your summer holiday been so far?  I've had a great time with my children - we went camping and slept on a helicopter!  I got to sit in the pilot's seat!  I had a day on the beach and helped my daughters build a sand castle with a deep moat running around it.  What's been the best thing about your summer holiday?

Angry Birds Day

Today is our first time in Badger Class - we have had an angry birds day!  First, we played angry birds on the ipads.  Next, we wrote instructions for Mr Davies' little girls so that they can learn how to play the game.  We thought very carefully about what to write, we also explained what each bird does.

By Inaya   Yasmin I

This arfternoon we have been learning about angry birds!We played angry birds on  our ipad.We made instions for angry birds .Next we made angry birds out of clay.After that we made our own angry birds using paper.Then we got  our a angry bird pictures that we like.

Hello!

This is the first (of many!) posts on the Badger Class 1314 blog.  We will be posting about what we are doing in class, we would love it if you comment on what we are doing!