Last week Year 2 found some mysterious footprints around school! They went outside to investigate.
They predicted that they could be Martian’s footprints so they set a trap over the weekend.
On Monday they found a family of Martians in their trap! They orally learned some instructions for How to Catch a Martian and then wrote their instructions.
Then they looked at the features of instructions and wrote command sentences to help the Martians adapt to school life !
This week we have been looking at rules and why we need them.
We discussed that ‘rules keep us safe and make sure that everyone is treated fairly’.
The children knew that school, family and sports clubs often have the same rules.
Tilly told us that “don’t hurt anyone, have kind hands”, is a school rule, but we all agreed that this is also a family and a sports club rule.
We then listened to the story of Moses and how God gave him the 10 Commandments. The commandments were the rules for all people to follow and live a good life by.
When we looked at the 10 commandments, the children could understand their importance in life today, even though they were from the Bible that was written a long, long time ago.
Year 1 then designed a poster of a rule which was most important to them. We decided that ‘be kind’ and ‘always try your best’ were the most important rules to follow.
This week, Year 1 continued to develop all their new skills learnt over the past two weeks.
We are now all confident using the track pad and are able to use the keyboard to type our names.
We explored the tool bar more this week, finding out that as well as change colours and type, we could make shapes, fill with colour and use a spray paint effect.
This week we also discussed and looked at saving our work, so we can work on it again. We understand that we need to save it as something sensible so that we can easily find it again.
After completing our lesson this week, we were all able to place our laptops in the charging station and carefully plug the lead into the correct hole.
In our Geography lesson this week Year 1 have been developing and applying their knowledge of Human features and Physical features. We started by exploring an ariel view map of Christopher Pickering school and discussing what human and physical features we could identify.
Once we had done this we designed our own symbols to represent each of the human features, such as the MUGA, carpark and play area, and also the physical features such as the trees, and school field.
The children then worked together using the view of our school from Google earth, to plot their symbols onto their own maps. They did a fantastic job and even added a key to show what the symbols represent!
Year 1 have previously looked at what belonging and faith means to ourselves and others.
We have discovered that there are different religions, with different gods, different places of worship, different festivals and different rituals.
Year 1 had already learnt that Christian’s celebrate Jesus’ birth on Christmas Day, so this week we looked at two different festivals from different faiths.
The Hindu festival of Holi –
The Jewish festival of Passover –
We discussed both festivals, the children loved the ‘excitement and fun’ of Holi, but thought the Passover story of Moses parting the Red Sea was ‘amazing’. The children understood that although the festivals were very different, they were equally important to the people of that faith.
Click the links below to share with your child their learning about Holi and Passover festivals:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTfYhG2mOSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF84Wx0dGTg
Year 2’s art enquiry this week was – How do we make new colours?
We revisited our knowledge of primary colours in Year 1 and made secondary colours. We mixed different combinations of red, yellow and blue to make orange, green and purple.
Then we mixed our secondary colours to make tertiary colours! There were lots of different shades across the room!
We were proud of our colour mixing skills!
This week, Year 1 have continued to develop their trackpad skills and we also thought about what we would use the keyboard for.
We found out that keyboard is used for writing on a computer and that, on all keyboards, the keys will always be in the exact same place.
Our task today was to type our name using the keyboard.
Once on the paintz.app programme, together we were able to click on the tools to draw a text box. The children were then able to use the keyboard to type their name.
Most of the children could do this independently and we learnt that holding down the ‘shift’ key makes a capital letter.
We then had chance to explore all the tools… we found that you could draw a circle/square with one, another enabled us to fill the shape with colour and one gave a spray paint effect … we had fun finding out what all the tools were able to do.
After our screen time, we took a much needed break in the fresh air.
The children had a good understanding of why it is important to do this.
Year 1 have really been enjoying our weekly Jigsaw lessons with Jigsaw Jack. This week we were looking at what our responsibilities were for being a member of a class, in order for all children to learn in a safe space.
This was some of the ideas the children came up with. We wrote all our ideas down so we can keep referring back to this week after week!
This week in science we re-capped our learning of the human body parts and our 5 senses. We then wanted to explore the enquiry ‘Are animals bodies the same as ours?’. This is what a few of the children said at first:
“No they are not the same at all as they have feathers.”- Harley
“No they don’t all have hands!”- Jessica
We then looked at a range of photographs of different animals and we looked at what was the same/different comparing them to the human body. We noticed common similarities such as eyes, noses, mouths, legs even though on each animal they looked different!
We then labelled animal body parts that humans don’t have e.g tusks, horns and claws!
This week, Year 1 have been working on developing their trackpad skills.
We now understand the main components of a computer – screen, keyboard, mouse, trackpad – so we looked at different mice and how some look different but all perform the same function, such as the trackpad.
All of the children were able to switch on their laptop, log in using their QR code and find the artist app that we were going to use – with a little help of course.
At first, some found it a bit tricky to select colours and use the trackpads to draw … but all of the children showed determination and perseverance, and were able to produce some masterpieces! The children, and myself, were very proud of what they had achieved.
We even walked around at the end, like we were at an Art Gallery, to look at everyone’s amazing creations!
