Year 2 have been investigating what happens to our body when we exercise. They did a variety of exercises in the classroom and then recorded how they felt after each exercise.
Category : Year 1/2
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- Drawing Chritsian objects!
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- The Cross on a necklace!
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- The Khanda
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- Christian Drawings!
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- The Golden Temple.
We have been learning how people of different faiths show their religion through actions and objects. We looked at some of the objects, watched some videos of children from the Sikh Faith and the Christian Faith then produced drawings to showcase our understanding. Another great RE lesson with lots of discussion. Well done Year 2!
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- Year 1
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- Year 2 – Hollie and Gracie
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- Year 3 – Rebecca and Billy
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- Year 4 – Sophia and Bailey
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- Year 5 – Lola and Riley
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- Year 6 – Jay and Gracie
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- Year 6 – Jenson
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- Year 6 – Jamie and Evie
World Mental Health Day we wore yellow to school and in return we donated money to the charity Young Minds Trust, which helps young people who are struggling with their mental health. In our assembly, we learned about what mental health is, what we can do to improve our mental health and what we should do if we are every feeling sad. Throughout the day, we took part in mindfulness sessions and throughout the week, we will be completing activities based around promoting positive mental health.
In science this week we re-capped our understanding of the human body and focussed on the enquiry ‘are animal’s bodies the same as ours?’. To start off our lesson we looked at a variety of photographs of different animals. I asked the children to identify their different features and characteristics.
After that we created two groups. One group of features we share with animals and one that we don’t. Here are some of the similarities and differences.
Similarities Differences
Eyes, mouth, head, legs and ears. Tusks, trunks, hooves, fur, scales and fins.
We had some great discussions about animal body parts and why they might have certain characteristics. We can’t wait to learn more about this next week!
In English, we have started our new story ‘Lost and Found’. This week we acted out the story as the boy and the penguin and performed it to the class. This really helped us internalise the story ready for re-telling it in our own words next week. We had some brilliant performances, well done Year 1!
In science we have been looking at the human body. We could identify our different body parts and understand why they are important. This week, we looked at and explored our 5 senses. We started with touch. We passed round the circle a soft teddy bear, sand paper, cotton wool and playdough. The children described the objects as: “rough”, “sticky”, “fluffy” and “scratchy”. We now understand that we don’t just use our hands and fingers to touch as we can feel things with many parts of our bodies.
We then explored our sense of smell. We smelt garlic, rosemary, lavender and coffee. We agreed that they smelt very different. Some were strong and some smelt sweet!
We then explored our taste buds! We discussed how everyone has different taste buds which means we all do not like the same things. We then did a comparative test with the question does our sense of taste get stronger when we close our eyes? The majority of the children agreed it did! We used salt and sugar which we all agreed were very different. Their favourite was the sugar!
We finally explored our sense of sight and hearing by playing different sounds and identifying what was making that noise. We then turned our classroom lights on and off, exploring seeing in the light and dark! Overall, we had a lot of fun exploring our 5 senses!
During our PE lessons in Year 1 we have been finding out which are our large body parts.
We found out our bottoms, back, sides and stomach were all the large parts of our body.
We had lots of fun moving around the hall using the different big parts of our bodies. Some of us shuffled on our bottoms, some of us wriggled on our stomachs or backs and some of us rolled using our stomach, side and back.
We also had a chance to move across equipment using our big body parts.
We moved across the benches carefully using only theses parts of our bodies. We watched each other and celebrated each others accomplishments as gymnasts as we reached the other end of the bench.
In Year 1, as geographers, we have been discussing the continent of Antarctica.
We found out that Antarctica is at the bottom of the world. We could identify it using the globes. We took it in turns to hold a globe up so our friends could find and point to the continent.
We also took it in turns to look closely at the globe and saw all of the different continents. We could all find Antarctica thanks to it’s other name ‘The South Pole’.
Once we could identify Antarctica on a globe we looked at different maps to locate the continent on them. We were all really good at identifying Antarctica as it is at the bottom and it is usually white.
Some of us were also able to identify the continent we live on as Europe. we could then find it on the map and globe and were able to show our friends where it is.
The children in Year 1 can name their continents and are very proud of showing everybody how good they are at recalling all 7 in size order.
To start our PSHE lesson this week we played a game of ‘switch’. The children thought of things they liked and swapped places if they liked them too. We found out that we all like different things but we also had a lot of things in common like loving chocolate cake!
We then discussed the emotion of feeling ‘proud’ and when we might feel this. We discussed how you can feel proud about lots of different things. It could be your work, doing well at a club or even for eating all your lunch! We then shared things we are proud of about ourselves.
“I am proud because I got this trophy at my dance class for trying my best” – William
“I am proud because I worked hard today in English”- Olivia
We then discussed the question ‘Are we only proud of ourselves?’. We talked about how we can be proud of our friends and their achievements. We took the time to tell our friends why we are proud of them. This made everyone feel happy.