Last half term we had to set up some experiments that we had to monitor over time as part of our schools investigation rota. The experiments we have set up in class are: 1. The naked egg - what will happen to the egg after spending 2 weeks in white vinegar? 2. Coca Cola and teeth - what will happen to the dirty pennies after spending 2 weeks in a jar of cola? 3. Germy Bread - Mrs Crossfield took 3 slices of bread - On one she rubbed her hand, one one she coughed and one one she rubbed her foot (gross right?) Which bread will have grown the most mould on after two weeks? We thing the foot one because feet are sweaty. 4. Buried Treasure. out in the playground we have buried some materials such as banana peel, orange peel, a piece of paper and a plastic bag. we will dig them up after six weeks to see what will happen to them... The following videos show some of the children giving their predictions....
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Over the Easter holidays we were set the challenge of designing and making an egg drop devise to protect an egg when it falls to the ground. We had a cracking time testing our creations and our egg saving success rate was egg-cellent! (Although Mrs Crossfield accidentally dropped an egg!)
We have been busy learning about money and time in the past few weeks at school. We have also been practicing our 6x tables and revisiting missing number problems.
Our teachers have asked us to work a lot more straight into our books than on a worksheet so we have had to think carefully about our presentation and how to use the squares in our books to make things look neat. I think you will agree from the pictures below that we have really been focusing on our presentation! Literacy - Looking at poems such as 'Bed in Summer' by Robert Louis Stevenson and writing Haikus ( a special type of poem). Maths - Learning to tell the time to o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. Also learning how many seconds are in a minute, minutes in an hour and other such links between measures of time. Spanish - We started our new unit of work on presenting ourselves. *see separate post above. P.E - Team games to warm up and dodge ball. Cheerleading putting together moves and using pom poms to our awesome crew rap. Music - singing spring songs and practicing Bob Marley - Don't worry, Be happy. We have discussed the difference between beat and rhythm. We have also tried really hard to keep our classroom tidy this week and our equipment organised - well done Team AC! Team AC are continuing with the cheerleading we started before the holidays. Now the children have learnt some key moves and stances they are starting to put together routines. Here are some little videos of the routines they made up themselves today. We already think they are quite fantastic, but we can't wait to see the progress they make as we learn even more and add some music too.
We have been working on ways for our children to extend their sentences when writing, we have been doing this by using co-ordinating conjunctions, see below. Theses are seven words that help connect information in a sentence. We have also started to look at Subordinating conjunctions that join two clauses together for example: "He was annoyed, the train had stopped." "He was annoyed because the train had stopped." Team AC are starting to really understand using these words and will be able to really bring their writing to a higher level. Information below, this is useful if children are writers at home. Literacy - SPAG and focus on co ordinating and subordinating conjunctions, how and where to use them in writing.
Writing cinquain poems about Spring. Maths - Using coin value and maths knowledge to solve problems. Working how much change you would get in number problems using subtraction. Spanish - Recapping our Spanish knowledge of vegetables and extending our learning onto asking for an amount of vegetables in kgs. P.E - Team games to warm up and dodge ball. Cheerleading putting together moves and using pom poms. Art - Making rain sticks. Drawing and colouring animals native to South America. Music - listening and appraising music. This half term we will be looking deeper into music, this week we have listened to Three little birds, by Bob Marley. Children had to say whether they like or dislike the song, what instruments they can hear and if they can identify the type of music. Children will learn how the song is put together: intro, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, ending. Science - Experiments over time to finish off the topic. New topic about humans and animals, we are talking about what the new topic is about and what the children hope to learn about. Welcome back to our Summer term. We hope you had a really lovely Easter holidays and got some rest and did lots of wonderful things making memories.
We are sure there will be as much learning and fun as last term. We have got some bank holidays coming up this half term so please do check the important dates for these. There are year 2 SATS coming up also this half term. Keep checking back here for all the hard work your children do in class. They really are an Awesome Crew! |
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