Self Portraits with Year 2

The Year 2 children have started using the computer room to extend their knowledge of ICT. For some children, this is the first time they have used a desktop computer and so it is important that they understand how a mouse is used and how to control it.

What better way to practice mouse control than to draw! Of course, we are not just drawing anything!! As part of their IPC topic, Ourselves, the children used the website Toupty, to draw their self portraits.

Here are some of the finished results. I'm pretty impressed with the detail they have used!!!

Google Drive

Google Drive is a "cloud based" storage system. This means, you can save your work "in the clouds" and access it anywhere. You can also use it to create work. 

The reason it is great for schools is that you can access it on an iPad as well as school and home computers or laptops. 

All children in years 5 and 6 now have access to their personal school Google Drive. To access this, you need the following details: 

Go to drive.google.com (preferably using Google Chrome). 

Write in your school email and password: 

Email: 500xxx@ishweb.nl
Password: dd.mm.yyyy 

All children in years 2, 3 and 4 have started using the school year group Google Drive. After Easter, year 4 children will be shown their school personal Google Drive. 

Year 2 iPad Apps

Here is a look at how we organise our year 2 iPads.

Curriculum area apps are shown on the first page of apps. These include apps for areas such as numeracy and literacy. There are also numerous creative apps for story creating, presentations, art and of course lots of educational games! The second page of apps contains apps for the Year 2 IPC topics. This set of apps will increase gradually during the year as the IPC topics are being studied.

We have a third page of apps specifically for the apps that come preinstalled on the iPads and a few teacher apps, but those are not very interesting!

Text and Graphics: Shape Mindmaps

In year 2 this week, the children have been demonstrating their knowledge of 2D shapes by creating mind maps in their ICT lessons. 

Here are some of the finished mind maps.

Digital Art: Year 2 draw some self portraits

In their ICT lesson in the computer room this week, year 2 were using their creative and artistic skills and drew some fantastic self portraits on the computers.

They paid particular attention to colours and brush size and were using the 'undo' button very effectively to improve their work when they made a mistake.

Fantastic drawings year 2. Well done.

Text and Graphics: My Label

In their ICT lesson in the computer room, the year 2 children made some labels for their IPC topic 'Ourselves'.

They created their own labels, choosing colours, pictures and designing a picture to look like themselves, and wrote their names.

What lovely labels Year 2!

Sequencing Instructions: Year 2's use the Bee Bots

The Year 2 classes have been using the Bee Bots this week.

We programmed the Bee Bots to move from one sense to the next, thinking really hard about the steps involved in the programming and inputting these instructions into the Bee Bots before pressing the Go button.

We used the Bee Bot app on the iPads to remind ourselves how to programme the Bee Bots whilst we waited to have our turn on the real thing!