Class 2
9.9.22 Welcome to Year 2!
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Good afternoon all,
We have all had a brilliant first week here in class two!
The children have loved starting off our explorers topic by singing sea shanties in music and looking at Christopher Columbus in history!
During our PE lessons, the class have enjoyed some football skills and getting active in dance too!
During science this week, the class got out and about and explored the school ground hunting for different types of plants and worked brilliantly together!
Thanks for reading and have a brilliant weekend!
Mr. H.
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15.7.22 Week in Review
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We went to Magna for our school trip and we started with a workshop about night and day. Then, we went to the fire pavilion and saw this cool fire tornado, the steam engine and an electron microscope.
We had our packed lunches in the great hall.
Next, we headed to the water pavilion and there was some floating balls suspended by air! In the splash area, there were lots of canal locks to change the water levels. It was really fun! We saw a frozen handrail and we held onto it! Brrrr! There was a special machine that you could stand on and it showed you how many litres of water you had in your body!
At the air pavilion, we saw a mini tornado that you could make bigger and change with your breath. We saw some pinball balls that go down the tornado hole. We used air cannons to blow powerful breezes into our faces! We had fun in the wind tunnel! When the fans started blowing the air pushed around in all directions. Outside the pavilion, there was an amazing air pump that when pushed, it created steam rings in the air. There was also some air pianos that you could play and create tunes.
Lastly, in the earth pavilion there was some diggers that we had to control using some instructions on the left and right sides and when we moved the joysticks the digger did what the instructions said it would do. Down in earth, the was an eye to look through and we could see lots of critters crawling! There was lots of passageways to explore and a few confusing mirrors around too! In a glass rest hut, the was Bob the builder singing his famous tune!
We also enjoyed our coach ride there and back and all had a lovely scientific adventure! Goodbye readers! (by class two)
I hope you have a good weekend!
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8.7.22 Week in Review
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We have had transition day this week, and I just want to pass on a message from Miss Watkins in year three. She said that the class were lovely and is excited to have you all next year! Well done class two!
In other news, We have focussed on time in maths and have really challenged ourselves to use five minute increments when telling the time!
In English, the class have loved looking at Australian author Shaun Tan's book Eric! Eric is an interesting character to say the least and has some hidden talents! It has inspired the class to write amazing descriptions and also put together some lovely pencil sketches!
During music, the class were amazing at creating graphic scores to match music they were listening to. I was blown away by the creativity on show and how everyone had their own way of portraying what they had heard!
In outdoor learning, our book this week was Caterpillar Butterfly by Vivian French. We learned a lot about different sorts of caterpillars, what they like to eat, how they keep safe from predators and how they can shed their skins several times before they transform into butterflies. We picked strawberries and foraged for cherries in the woods to make butterfly feeding stations and thought about the symmetrical patterns on butterflies’ wings. We created our own symmetrical wings using natural materials on the brick butterfly that we have uncovered in our wild area.
Thanks everyone!
Mr. H.
1.7.22 Week in a Review
admin on: Class 2
Good afternoon everyone!
This week in maths we have used Geoboards to make shapes. We used elastic bands to create the shape on the boards and then use a mirror to see if the shapes had lines of symmetry.
In music, we have made sounds about different areas of Australia and used graphic notation to write our music. We worked in teams together and used notes to tell each other when to play.
During science, we studied different habitats of the world and designed habitats for some of our favourite creatures!
This week, we have been learning about Uluru. We have been doing paintings and research on the famous landmark.
During outdoor learning, the group made 'wattle and daub' bee hives and worked in super teams. I think making wet mud was a favourite task for all!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Thanks Mr. H.
17.6.22 Week in Review
admin on: Class 2
Hello from Class Two,
Maths
We have been working on column addition this week. We did some easy ones to start with and then for challenges we did some hundreds and thousands questions! We also did some work on 3-digit-numbers using sticks and bricks to create thousands, hundreds, tens and ones numbers!
English
We started the week looking at aboriginal people who were singing, dancing and telling stories about the rainbow serpent! We have been learning about Australia and animals that live there. We have been drawing the animals and writing fact files about them! We chose our own Australian animals to research and we used books and computers to find facts about them. We then recorded some notes in our books to use later.
Computing
We logged onto purple mash to make impressionist paintings digitally using fake water to change the depth of colour.
Geography
In geography, we have also been learning about the Australian states and capital cities. We used atlases to learn where the different locations were and what the different states were called. We used a colour coded map to help us learn the states and then had a go at making our own!
Goodbye everyone, we hope you enjoy your weekend!
From Class Two!