Year 2 have been learning new signifiers for ‘The Night Pirates.’ They are doing a fabulous job on day 1!
Category : Year 1/2
Year 2 have been learning how to jump effectively in our topic about locomotion.
Year 2 have been learning about the continents and oceans this week in relation to the Equator. We can locate all of the continents and oceans and name them from largest to smallest.
In Year 2, we have been creating images of the sky in the style of John Ward. We used chalk pastels to blend different colours!
Year 2 have been looking at the poem ‘I Wish I Was a Pirate’ by Tony Bradman. We learned signifiers for the poem and the performed our poem to the rest class.
We are now going to write our own pirate poems based on Bradman’s poem.
Year 2 have started a new Science Topic; ‘Living Things and Their Habitats.’ First of all we learned what a habitat was and then we looked at a Polar Habitat, River Habitat, Ocean Habitat and a Forest Habitat. After that we sorted animals into the correct habitats!
Y2 used chalk pastels to create calm sea backgrounds inspired by John Ward in Art this afternoon.
Year 2 have started a new unit in our indoor PE this week; Yoga and Mindfulness.
Today we have learned some basic yoga positions and played some games using these.
We can’t wait for next week.
This week in Maths, year 1 have been comparing different weights using balance scales. We discussed what we thought might happen when an object that is heavier was put on one side of a scale. The children predicted it would make that side move down. We then placed a full water bottle one side and a pencil in the other. They were correct! The side with the water bottle dropped and the other went high in the sky! We kept making predictions of different items we found around the classroom. It was so fun!
Then I asked the children what would happen if I put 5 cubes on each side of the balance scale? They showed me an equal sign with their arms. I was very impressed. We look forward to exploring weight further in future lessons!
Year 1 worked fantastically together in English. We are working towards writing a sense poem for our new theme all about the seaside. We closed our eyes and listened to real life sounds of what we would hear at the seaside. They said it felt like they were there! The children came up with some brilliant language ‘howling wind’, ‘chatting seagulls’ and ‘crisp golden sand’. We worked through each sense and made sure we used adjectives to make our language more interesting.
I can’t wait to see their final poems using their brilliant descriptions. Well done Year 1!