Year 20 Class Assembly

by Orla O’Dwyer, Year 2 Teacher

This term, Year 2 had their first class assembly. We decided as a class to act out the story called ‘The day the crayons quit’.

Firstly, we enjoyed listening to this playful, imaginative story that had our class laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way. The many letters written by the crayons helped us explore the way to build an argument through statements of opinion, the use of examples, supplying possible solutions, and using emotional language to impact the reader. Punctuation, such as ellipsis and capitalisation of words, helped us to express the crayons’ feelings. And as the letters are told from the crayons’ point of view, their unique problems created empathy in our class; this helped us to understand that sometimes we do not realise that our choices impact others.

We thoroughly enjoyed learning about the beautiful colours we see all around us every day, the impact they have on our feelings and interaction with our peers. We also had a lot of fun acting the different roles for the assembly, we learned about the importance of equality, inclusiveness, and having studied this story we feel it has helped us build our problem-solving skills.