Learning about Scotland

This week we have been learning about Scotland. We located the cities in an atlas and marked them on a map. We also learnt about their national flower, national animal and the human and physical features. We finished the afternoon reading a lovely story set in Scotland called Margaret’s Unicorn.

Investigating materials

We are learning about the properties of materials, this week we investigated different materials to see if they had the properties of being: opaque, transparent, absorbent, waterproof, flexible. We used our senses to investigate and small pipettes to see if the material was waterproof or absorbant.

 

We made guacamole

We made guacamole and ate it with pitta bread for an afternoon snack. Children took it in turns to do different jobs – grating the limes, juicing the limes, adding chilli, scooping and mashing the avocado

and chopping tomatoes.

We have learnt the phoneme d

We have explored d, looking at dinosaurs and role playing doctors.

We have learnt the phoneme m

We explored the magnets and made magical mixtures. We also read a poem called magic box and thought about what we would like to put in our own magic box.

We have learnt the phoneme n

We learnt about numicon and the Numberblocks and played some number games in maths. We enjoyed making necklaces and counting carefully 5 beads onto the string.

We have learnt phoneme i

We explored insects and illuminated them! We also played lots of instruments!

We have learnt the phoneme p

We all talked about pets we have or pets we know and learnt about the schools pets – the guinea pigs, Biscuit and Fudge.

Forest Friday

We were really lucky that we it was glorious weather for our Forest Friday session! Miss Manton read a book called Leaf Man, we learnt about how to classify different leaves; simple, compound, finger like and lobbed. Some of us went on a leaf hunt, some of us created feasts in the mud kitchen, some of us made leaf rubbings and some of us drilled holes in conkers to make a conker necklace.

Week three in year 2

We have been very busy in class 2 again this week! We started the week making dragons and reading the story of Kashim and the dragon (a warning tale) we are in the immersion part of our Talk For Writing unit. We have also been learning about the United Kingdom and identifying the countries that make up the UK on a map, completing lots of jigsaws to help us recognise this. We have also been making an information leaflet about England, including the physical and human features. We have also been completing challenges to consolidate our understanding of place value of 2 digit numbers.

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