In Year 2 we are learning songs all about pirates and the sea!
To help us learn “The Pirate Singalong” we put some actions to the words.
We learnt the rhythm and pitch once we knew the actions then performed the whole thing!
Category : Year 1/2
Today, Y1 were History detectives – we used a range of sources of evidence to find out about George Stephenson, his achievements and why he was nicknamed ‘Father of the Railway.’
We learned that he invented the first locomotive called ‘The Rocket’ and that this changed Britain in the Victorian era as it meant that more people could travel. Holidays by the seaside became more accessible and it meant that those people who previously couldn’t afford to go on holiday could! This changed Britain and the seaside which we are going to learn more about this in other lessons. We all realised that George Stephenson is a significant individual who invented something that has changed our lives today and he is still remembered for the work that he has done.
Lucas said ‘George Stephenson looks like a clever, rich man because he is wearing expensive clothes.’
‘The carts with the people on look very full and the train looks very slow, not like today.’ pointed out Scarlett
‘He must be famous if he is on money’ said Frankie
Year 1 are very excited to be learning about non-chronological reports over the next few weeks.
We have spent this week looking at the features and how they are set out.
We have discovered that non-chronological reports are non-fiction.
They have a title, an introduction, sub-headings, pictures and a conclusion.
We learnt lots of facts about sharks this week and can not wait to write our own non-chronological reports!
In Math this week Year 1 have been learning about grouping and sharing objects.
We started by discussing what a group was and what it looked like.
We then discussed what ‘equal‘ meant and decided for sharing to be fair that all groups needed to be equal.
We looked at how we could share objects between equal groups and had a go with different objects.
We then looked at how we could begin to share other things equally between different amounts of groups.
In Year 2 we have been studying the pirate adventure story ‘The Night Pirates’. This week we are going to write our own story based on it.
Today we innovated the ending and wrote our own end paragraph in pairs.
We had some fantastic ideas.
In Year 2 our new topic is ‘Explorers of the Sea’. We thought about explorers that we have already learned about this year. Then we thought of questions to ask Christopher Columbus. We then learned the story of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World. We acted the story out in groups.
This week in Y1 we are learning about making equal groups – We know that equal means the same as.
We used paper plates as our groups and put a certain amount of objects into each group, making sure they were equal, we then moved onto drawing groups and the objects. By the end of the lesson we were all very confident with recognising equal and unequal groups and were able to discuss what we could see.
We love to enhance our curriculum, so in Year 1 this term there is a Creative Club with Mrs Yardley where we get to use our Art and Design skills even more.
This week we looked at some of Wassily Kandinsky’ s work and we found out that he was a Russian painter and was born in 1866. After looking at some of his paintings we were shocked that he painted them so long ago as we thought that they looked quite modern.
We looked in particular at ‘Squares with Concentric Circles’ and used it to inspire our own collage based on this painting.
This term in Y1 we are looking at some of the work of Roy Lichtenstein and are studying still life drawing and some aspects of Pop Art.
First we used different pencils and made a variety of thick, thin, curved, straight, dark and light lines, we drew shapes and practised shading and creating ‘Ben Day’ dots inside them. We practised looking closely at shells to draw observationally focussing on the shape, lines and shading.
Once we were happy with our pieces we used the class still life composition to draw our own version of ‘Still Life with Brushes, Shells and Starfish’. Once we had finished the observational drawing we used a black pen to draw round the outlines and then we painted it in Brusho.
This week in science we had great fun in the sun.
Year 1 have been learning about plants.
We discovered there are lots of parts to a plant and each part has a very important job.
This week we looked at wild plants and the difference between these and garden plants.
We identified lots of wild plants that we already knew such as dandelions and daisies.
Did you know that brambles have a white flower on them?
We enjoyed going around the school and looking for all the new wild plants we can now name.
We found some nettles in our wood and some buttercups on our field.
We also know how important these plants are to the insects and bugs that live in our world!