First of all Year 2 worked in groups to compose some music.
Next, they recorded the musical notes onto a stave and practised playing their tunes.
Finally, they performed their music to the rest of the class.
Well done Year 2 – you made some amazing music!!
This week in geography we looked at a variety of different maps. We looked at a map of the United Kingdom and re-capped the four countries and their capital cities. We also looked at street maps, transport maps and a holiday park map. We discussed how maps had keys to help people identify where different things can be located.
We then looked at a map of Beatrix Potter’s world in the Lake District. On this map are a variety of different characters from the stories. We gave our partners oral instructions to find the different characters using locational and positional language.
Maisie using positional language.
Stanley using positional language.
To extend out learning we identified the different human and physical features found on the map.
We are excited to create our own map of our school next week.
As scientists this week, Year 1 have been carrying out comparative tests to identify which materials are the most suitable to make a waterproof hat for Barney the Bear.
We begun by discussing which materials we though would be waterproof. Lots of us though tin foil, plastic and wood were going to not let water through them.
We recorded our predictions on a table before we carried out a fair test.
First we put Barney in a bowl, then we held materials above his head and put water on them with a pipette. We observed what happened to the water once it was on the material. Some materials soaked up the water and we knew this meant they weren’t waterproof. Other materials just made the water run off and we knew these were waterproof.
Lots of us were surprised that the wood was not waterproof. the water soaked in to the wood.
We observed very closely how the water soaked into the material and paper and how the water just sat in a puddle on top of the metal, plastic and tin foil.
We decided that Barneys hat should be made of plastic as this was the softest of the waterproof materials. We though wood would be too heavy and the tin foil would be very noisy in the rain.
In PSHE this week, Year 1 have been discussing what makes us healthy.
We looked at some statements and decided if they were healthy or unhealthy.
We moved around the room to the correct label when we heard the statements.
We decided a good nights sleep was healthy and that eating takeaway every day was unhealthy.
We then acted out some of the things we thought were healthy.
Washing our hands is healthy.
A good night sleep is healthy
Exercising is healthy
In RE this week Year 1 have been discussing how the world is cared for.
We talked about how religious people think the world needs to be looked after as they believe it was created by their god.
Some religious people donate to charities, some do work in their local communities and others volunteer to work with charities to name a few things.
We think it is very important to look after the world too and we discussed about how we can look after it.
These are some of the things we will do.
We talk about online safety in Year 2 during our computing lessons, assemblies and PSHCE lessons. The children can discuss how to keep safe and who they should tell if they are unsure. As part of Project Evolve, the children thought about who owns the information that is stored on the internet and how long that information stays on the internet.
The children were very knowledgeable about what information they should share and what information is personal and shouldn’t be shared. They could also say why it should not be shared. We completed the session with an interactive word search to find all of the key words relating to personal information.
Year 1 have been discussing random acts of kindness week.
We talked about how being kind makes others feel. We think when we are kind we make others happy.
We have discussed what types of things we can do to be kind to each other and found that lots of them are things we do because we are kind children .
We decided to do things like hold doors for people, play with children who have nobody to play with and say nice things to each other.
We are going to make lots of people smile during random acts of kindness week.
Year 1 have been looking at numbers within 50 in our math lessons..
We have looked closely at how these numbers are made with tens and ones.
We used our tens rods an ones cubes to make numbers before we told our partners how many tens and ones we had used.
We used lots of STEM sentences when telling our partners what we needed and what we had used to make a number.
I’ve got 2 tens and 8 ones. My number is 28.
I’ve got 3 tens and 3 ones. My number is 33.
I’ve got 1 ten and 8 ones. My number is 18.
We are getting very confident using numbers to 50.
This week in music Year 1 have been singing ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush’.
We really enjoyed listening to and appraising this nursery rhyme.
We liked how the sounds of the words are loud and soft as we sing. We also like how some of the words repeat like the words in ‘London’s Burning’ did last week.
We found out ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush was created in the Victorian Era and Beatrix Potter would have sang this song as a child.
We were really confident singing this nursery rhyme and knew lots of different verses.
We decided to make up actions for some versions of the song.
Year 1 listened to the story of ‘Digi Duck’ to help them understand about being safe
online and what to do if something worries them.
We talked about messages we might get and what to do if this happens.
We also talked about putting information online and who we should speak to before we ever do this.