Class 2
24/11/23 Week in Review!
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This week in class two, we have really started our 'Journey'!
During our English lessons, we have spent some time exploring the book 'Journey' By Aaron Becker. This book has no words and relies on the images to tell the story. It is a beautiful book and the class have been amazing at coming up with their very own text to match the pictures.
In our reading sessions, we have been looking at the Arctic Circle and the people that live there. We now know about some different cultures, such as the Inuit and the Sami people.
In DT, we have been planning how we are going to make our hand puppets and have been considering what makes a product suitable for a certain audience.
On Wednesday afternoon, the class enjoyed learning a little bit of French. We focused on words linked to school and recapped on our greetings and number words.
During Geography, we all enjoyed our weekly quiz which always becomes competitive towards the end when the points are being tallied up. We also finished off a bit of learning about the climate and weather in the Arctic and now can articulate that the summer in the Arctic Circle are still cold but far warmer than it would be in the winter.
Thanks everyone, have a great weekend!
Mr. H.
17.11.23 Week in Review
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Good afternoon everyone,
I'm going to start off with music this week. The class have been listening to some of the movements from Camile Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals and picking out the sounds of individual instruments. They have been thinking about the timbre, dynamics, tempo and pitch whilst listening and trying to match the music to an animal or habitat.
During our English lessons, we have had fun with inverted commas. We have been writing made-up conversations whilst using the correct punctuation.
We have had a very productive week in maths, learning some useful shortcuts for adding numbers that are close to multiples of ten. The class have used 100 squares to make a jump if tens followed jumps of ones. It makes adding larger numbers much easier!
In DT, we have thought about how to make our puppets safe for children to play with. We spoke about material choices, fixings and design. We had a go at trying our initial ideas out on a design template to see if our first ideas could be made into a real puppet.
Well done all, and have a nice weekend everyone!
Thanks
Mr. H.
10.11.23 Week in Review
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Good afternoon everyone,
I want to say welcome back to everyone after half term. I hope you all managed some rest during the week somehow!
We have had a very successful week here in class two, starting our new topic Journeys.
In Geography, we have started to explore the Arctic Circle. The class were learning about the countries that are partly in the Arctic Circle and what the towns look like.
During Maths, we have been halving and doubling, as well as working on our 2, 5 and 10 times tables.
We have had a grammar-focused week in English lessons, recapping the four different sentence types, and during our reading lessons, we read about the fascinating but tragic HMS Erebus and Terrror expedition, led by Sir John Franklin to find a way through the Northwest Passage.
In music, the class enjoyed listening to a movement named Aquarium from the Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens.
Thanks for reading and enjoy your weekend!
Mr. H.
20.10.23 Week in Review
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Good afternoon everyone!
This week has been busy and brilliant!
We have finally, completed our reading of William Grill's brilliant 'Shackleton's Journey' and found out how the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition finished! It has been some very exciting learning!
Have a look at these barcodes we used in computing this week! They were great fun! The class used a key to work out what the item was then how much the item was, emulating the way IT is used in supermarkets to have prices and codes.
13.10.23 Week in Review
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Good afternoon everyone,
The Plot Thickens!
Here in class two, we are loving our topic of explorers and are amazed by the story of Shackleton's 1914 Antarctica Expedition. We are slowly moving through the story and this week discovered that the famous boat Endurance was destroyed by the ice and the crew had to journey on foot to escape the ice! But... how are they going to get home?
Antarctica Artwork
In art this week, we have learned about the artist, come explorer, David McEown. The class were in awe of his lovely watercolour artwork, and also of the amount of travel he has undertaken. We have started a gorgeous watercolour project inspired by his Emergence artwork! 