We have had a great half term in 2c with lots of steps taken in our learning and lots of fun along the way! The children have truly embraced our masterchef topic, writing information reports about fruit, creating leaflets about how to grow plants and even using their play times to create dances and songs about healthy eating! There have been lots of calm pins achieved, high learning zones and lots of growing!
Enjoy your easter break and we look forward to starting our next project on nocturnal animals when we get back!
2c making their faces funny for Red Nose Day!
We have had a great week with lots of great learning!
On Monday we worked in trios to make visual models to show odd and even numbers. We focused on being able to explain our model to the rest of the class and all the children showed a great understanding of odd and even.
One group made an odd and even pattern.
Another group explained how even numbers could be halved.
On Tuesday we tried lots of fruits and vegetables for our masterchef ignite. We used a thesaurus to up level our words and write them into mind maps.
On Thursday we enjoyed dressing up as books characters! We even had a James from our current class book of James and the Giant Peach!
What a busy week!
As part of our independent writing this week we have written our own information reports on Mary Anning. The children have applied their knowledge of information reports from our literacy lessons and combined this with the information we have learnt about Mary Anning in history.
Here are Max and Lola’s fantastic examples!
Year 2 were very lucky to have a visit from Mr Osbourne who shared some of his very own fossils with us. This fitted perfectly with our Dinosaur project… especially as we have just learnt about Mary Anning.
Here are some of the fossils that the children of Year 2 were able to investigate:
Thank you Mr Osborne!
In gymnastics today we have been practising shapes to use in our gymnastics routines. We practised each shape and gave each other verbal feedback on how we could improve.
Year 2 had a fantastic day out at the Natural History Museum in London. We explored the dinosaur exhibitions and learnt many great facts ready to continue our project learning at school.
Thank you to all adults and parents who helped our day run so smoothly!
We had a fantastic trip to the Natural History Museum on Wednesday. In the morning we visited the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur fossils discovered by Mary Anning and met the newly discovered Stegosaurus called Sophie! After lunch we spent most of our time looking around the dinosaur exhibition. We saw lots of fossils, models, pictures and information but the most spectacular was the moving T-Rex.
We had a great time and the children learnt lots of information ready for the rest of our project.
This week we have started our tree week project and the children have been learning about the Baobab Tree! They have remembered lots of fascinating facts about this interesting tree and are now starting to write their own information reports.
Here we are doing the Baobab quiz!
Here is Arnav’s super introduction! We have worked on using a question, a fact and a sentence to tempt the reader to read more.
Next term Year 2 will be visiting the Natural History Museum in London. A letter has gone out on ParentMail, please return your permission slip before the end of this term.
Thank you,
Year 2 Teachers
