This week, Eagles have started learning new topics.
Literacy - we are reading the story of 'The Magic Finger'. The children are really enjoying this story and there have been many giggles over the antics of the girl with the magic finger!
Maths - we are looking at fractions this week. You can help at home by halving and quartering snacks with your child.
Science - we are learning about materials. Here we are exploring materials:
Eagles have worked hard this week!
Literacy - we have finished reading Rapunzel, and used our imaginations to think about how we could trap the Witch. Next week we are writing our own versions of the story.
Maths - we have been looking at dividing, by sharing objects into equal groups. This has been tricky for us, but we have worked really hard.
Geography - we have used our knowledge of maps to find Ireland and locate the capital city, and local landmarks.
Science - we have continued our learning about plants by conducting an experiment. Pop back next week to find out what happened to the plant in the cupboard!
Spring has begun to appear this week and the children have enjoyed spending some time outside. In Science, we have continued to learn about plants, and next week we will be going on a local visit to explore which plants grow in our local area.
In Literacy, we have continued to learn about Rapunzel. We were thrilled to have a visit from Rapunzel this week, although she looked a little bit like Miss Snow...
Then, on Tuesday afternoon, we created potions imagining we were the Witch. We really enjoyed shrinking Mrs Gosling, and making her grow again, giving her super speed and a friendship potion too!
In Maths, we have started learning to multiply. We are using equal groups to multiply and beginning to look at division too.
In DT, we have enjoyed tasting 'dippers' after much discussion on which foods we think would make a good 'dipper'. There were many fabulous suggestions, and when tasting, we all agreed the tortilla chip and the pepper were our favourites!
Eagles class had an exciting visit this week from HSBC bank. Danielle and Willow came to teach us all about money - we really enjoyed the lesson and looking at the huge debit card! A huge thank you to HSBC team for their fantastic support.
In other news, this week we have been learning:
Maths: all about money!
Literacy: we have finished our instruction writing. After half term we are learning about Rapunzel.
History: we have finished our learning about the Tudors.
Science: we have finished learning about electricity, next half term we will be learning about plants.
R.E: We have finished learning about beginnings and endings. We enjoyed planning an end of year celebration this week.
Art: we finished our learning about portraits. After half term we will be learning Design Technology, looking at dips and dippers.
We also welcomed Mrs Bate, a student teacher who is joining Eagles class until Easter.
Another lovely, busy week in Eagles class! Highlight of the week was a visit from the fire service, who taught us how to call the emergency services and fire safety rules.
In Literacy, we have been writing instructions to make a recycled instrument.
In Maths, we have looked at problem solving. Next week, we have some visitors to teach us all about money.
In Outdoor Learning, we created some transient art based on the sort of foods Ossiri might have eaten around the campfire. We had some fantastic creations, from soups and stews to fried scones!
In Science, we investigated conductors and insulators. Ask your child if they can explain the difference!
In RE, we learnt the Easter story, and discussed symbols of New Life.
Year two have had an exciting week finishing our learning about Ossiri and the Bala Mangro. We are busily learning the skills we need to write some instructions. Here is an outline of all our learning:
Literacy: learning about instructions and how to write these. We have made recycled instruments which we will write about next week.
Maths: we are learning to add using column method. We are working out what to do when the numbers are bigger than 9 in each column.
Art: We added backgrounds to our self-portraits.
History: we are continuing to learn about the Tudors.
RE: we learnt about Baptisms and what they mean.
Science: following on from our excellent circuit building, we learnt to draw a scientific diagram of a circuit and label this.
Eagles have been very busy this week!
In Art, we continued with our self-portraits and added facial features and hair. We used our colour mixing skills to apply different shades and tones.
In Literacy, we have continued to work on Ossiri and the Bala Mengro, learning about musical instruments that are played in the Traveller Community. We have also been learning about imperative verbs and sentence structure.
In Maths, we have been developing our subtraction skills using the column method.
In computing, we designed our own algorithms to make the frog turn into a prince.
In History, we learnt about the English Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries under the rule of King Henry VIII
In Science, we learnt about electrical circuits and had lots of fun building our own and working out how to get the light bulb to turn on.
Eagles class have been busy this week, getting stuck into our new topics.
In art, we have begun learning to create self portraits. We spent some time discussing facial features and how to draw these to scale.
In Science, we have learnt how to be safe around electricity. We learnt about the potential risks and how to avoid these.
In Literacy, we have discussed Ossiri and how her life is different to ours, living in a travelling community.
In Maths, we have learnt to subtract using an exchange. We have used column method to do this and Mrs Gosling is very impressed with how well we did!
In History, we have been learning about King Henry VIII and his six wives.
In Computing, we have been learning about algorithms and programming our own Princess and the Frog.
Plus some of the Tudor Roses we created in Outdoor Learning.
Happy new year!
We had a fantastic time at our school trip this week, visiting Lynn Museum to learn all about The Tiger Who Came To Tea.
Eagles class have started our new topics. We are learning:
Maths - adding and subtracting, using column method. The children are using equipment such as base ten and counters to support this.
Literacy - we are learning about the story of Ossiri, a young girl from a travelling family. We are thrilled to have been lent lots of lovely books to support us with this.
History - we are learning about the Tudors.
Science - we are learning about electricity. This week we looked at which items use a battery and which use mains power.
RE - we are learning about beginnings and endings. This week we thought about any new beginnings we have experienced, such as moving house.
Outdoor Learning is linked to our history this half term.
Eagles class discussed what Christmas is all about. Here are some of their beautiful answers:
Christmas is all about love.
It's about giving presents to people we love like our family.
It's about having fun and playing games with my family and my friends at school.
We have fun times at school like the singing.
When we celebrate Eid we have new dresses and go to our place to worship.
Eagles class enjoyed their Christmas Dinner today. We had roast Turkey and all the trimmings, crackers and Christmas songs. Eagles staff joined their class to celebrate together.
We then had a Christmas Party and shared lots of traditional Christmas party games, including a game of Santa Whispers, Pin the Nose on Rudolph, Santa Says, Snowball Racing with cotton wool balls, chopsticks and a bowl on our heads, and some games of 'Don't drop the Penny'.
Everybody had lots of fun.
Eagles class have been making Christmas tree decorations. We used the hand drills to make holes in wood circles, before designing them.
We have been working hard at writing our poems this week.
